20 Feb 2021 - Graphics card reviewed

Gamers upgrading will be considering the GeForce GTX 970 Asus DirectCU Mini 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. DirectX 12 gaming system requirements will be met by this gpu.

Here we take a closer look at the various performances across 1080p, 1440p and 4K screen resolutions for the GeForce GTX 970 Asus DirectCU Mini OC 4GB 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. When considering how well this graphics card can run the 1000 most demanding games available today it can best 318 of the games’ recommended graphics requirements.

Looking at some of the modern popular games people are playing today the GeForce GTX 970 Asus DirectCU Mini OC 4GB Edition is running Assassins Creed: Valhalla and delivering playable performances on 1080p Ultra, getting 31 frames per second. Comparing this to World of Warcraft: Shadowlands which is getting weak results, where it averages 22 FPS. Another popular game we looked at is Grand Theft Auto VI, which is predicted to run at 24 frames per second.

Increasing resolution to 1440p is something a number of PC gamers are doing today. We tested the GeForce GTX 970 Asus DirectCU Mini OC 4GB Edition at 1440p with Assassins Creed: Valhalla, which got a weak set of FPS results. These were, Low: 47 FPS, Medium: 40 FPS, High: 35 FPS and Ultra: 24 FPS. We then checked out World of Warcraft: Shadowlands which had a set of graphics results as followed, L: 44FPS, M: 35FPS, H: 23FPS, U: 17FPS. And another popular game was Grand Theft Auto VI with predictions of L: 47FPS, M: 37FPS, H: 25FPS, U: 18FPS at 1440p. 1440p gaming on the GeForce GTX 970 Asus DirectCU Mini OC 4GB Edition is likely in need of some graphical option tweaks when trying to play modern games.

How many years will the GeForce GTX 970 Asus DirectCU Mini OC 4GB Edition graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the GeForce GTX 970 Asus DirectCU Mini 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 Asus DirectCU Mini OC 4GB Edition? If you are thinking of upgrading this graphics card then we would currently suggest the 16 Series GeForce GTX 1660 Super 6GB. This PC hardware upgrade performs 36% better and can run 802 of today’s 1000 most demanding PC games. Alternatively if you want an upgrade suggestion for the GeForce GTX 970 Asus DirectCU Mini OC 4GB Edition then a good choice would be R-500 Series Radeon RX Vega 56 8GB as this is better than 910 of the top 1000 most demanding game requirements with 45% better performance as well.