4 Jul 2020 - Graphics card reviewed

Gamers upgrading will be considering the GeForce GTX 970 Gigabyte WindForce 3X OC 4GB Edition graphics card as a serious price to performance entry point. This card will meet and play most demanding AAA games and do so with good graphics setting as standard, and confidently pushing past the recommended game system requirements needed to run today’s games. GeForce GTX 970 Gigabyte WindForce 3X OC 4GB Edition is capable of DirectX 12 gaming requirements.

What FPS performance can the GeForce GTX 970 Gigabyte WindForce 3X OC 4GB Edition get on latest AAA 2020 games? In particular our game review looks at the FPS achieved running on Ultra graphics settings on the 1080p screen resolution as well as 1440p and 4K. In comparison to the game recommended requirements of the 1000 most demanding games played today this PC hardware can run 494.

Looking at some of the modern popular games people are playing today the GeForce GTX 970 Gigabyte WindForce 3X OC 4GB Edition is running Valorant and delivering strong performances on 1080p Ultra, getting 500 frames per second. Comparing this to Death Stranding which is predicted to get reasonable results, where it averages 46 FPS. Another popular game we looked at is Horizon: Zero Dawn, which is predicted to run at 46 frames per second.

People are turning their increasingly more powerful graphics cards to the popular 1440p screen size so we tested the GeForce GTX 970 Gigabyte WindForce 3X OC 4GB Edition to see how it performs on 1440p. First off we have looked at Valorant where it was strong. The frame rates it scored for the game presets were - Low: 1007 FPS, Medium: 793 FPS, High: 534 FPS and Ultra: 381 FPS. We added Death Stranding to our research and predict it will be playable with a 35 FPS at Ultra 1440p. And then researched Horizon: Zero Dawn leading us to predict 35 FPS at Ultra 1440p. Looking at a few of these 1440p results for the GeForce GTX 970 Gigabyte WindForce 3X OC 4GB Edition we get the impression that it is a solid performer with higher resolution modern gaming. This graphics card can also bump up to 4K gaming regularly with the latest games still being capable of high or ultra graphics settings at this level.

How many years will the GeForce GTX 970 Gigabyte WindForce 3X OC 4GB Edition graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the GeForce GTX 970 Gigabyte WindForce 3X OC 4GB Edition in your PC? 12-18 months of top end gaming is still left in this graphics card

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the GeForce GTX 970 Gigabyte WindForce 3X OC 4GB Edition? A good choice when looking to upgrade the GeForce GTX 970 Gigabyte WindForce 3X OC 4GB Edition would be the 16 Series GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 6GB which meets 861 of the 1000 top game’s recommended system requirements and has 37% better performance. Alternatively a good choice when looking to upgrade the GeForce GTX 970 Gigabyte WindForce 3X OC 4GB Edition would be the R-500 Series Radeon RX Vega 56 8GB which meets 946 of the 1000 top game’s recommended system requirements and has 44% better performance.