27 Jul 2021 - Graphics card reviewed

Gamers upgrading will be considering the GeForce GTX 970 Galax EXOC 4GB Black 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 Galax EXOC 4GB Black Edition is capable of DirectX 12 gaming requirements.

Here we take a closer look at the various performances across 1080p, 1440p and 4K screen resolutions for the GeForce GTX 970 Galax EXOC 4GB Black Edition. In particular this is looking at the Ultra graphics settings to see what sort of FPS this graphics card can get across some of the more popular games played in 2021. In terms of performance against the most demanding games today this graphics card can play 252 of the 1000 most demanding PC games beating their recommended requirements.

First we looked at 1080p resolution for the GeForce GTX 970 Galax EXOC 4GB Black Edition performance to explore what sort of benchmarks it would achieve on the popular title Resident Evil 8 and saw it deliver playable frames per second across the following graphics settings - Low: 81 FPS, Medium: 63 FPS, High: 43 FPS and Ultra: 31 FPS. We proceeded to look at Star Citizen to see how that compared and predict that it will return a reasonable 50 FPS at Ultra 1080p.

As the PC gaming masses explore larger screen resolutions we decided to run some game checks at 1440p across a few popular games. We discovered the GeForce GTX 970 Galax EXOC 4GB Black Edition ran Resident Evil 8 to a weak performance level. Results across the graphics settings looked like this, Low: 61 FPS, Medium: 48 FPS, High: 33 FPS and Ultra: 23 FPS. Another game researched was Star Citizen with predictions of L: 101FPS, M: 79FPS, H: 53FPS, U: 38FPS. And then we researched potential graphics card performance on New World, wih estimates revealing L: 107FPS, M: 84FPS, H: 57FPS, U: 40FPS at 1440p. Looking at a few of these 1440p results for the GeForce GTX 970 Galax EXOC 4GB Black Edition we get the impression that it is a reasonable choice at this screen size. You can always tweak modern game graphics settings to help you get a better High graphics setting experience at 1440p.

How many years will the GeForce GTX 970 Galax EXOC 4GB Black Edition graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the GeForce GTX 970 Galax EXOC 4GB Black 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 Galax EXOC 4GB Black Edition? A good choice when looking to upgrade the GeForce GTX 970 Galax EXOC 4GB Black Edition would be the 16 Series GeForce GTX 1660 Super 6GB which meets 759 of the 1000 top game’s recommended system requirements and has 33% better performance. Alternatively a good upgrade choice for this graphics card today would be the R-500 Series Radeon RX Vega 56 8GB. For comparison of the 1000 most demanding games around today this suggested upgrade is 42% better and can meet 898 of their recommended requirements.