10 Aug 2021 - Graphics card reviewed

This GeForce GTX 970 PNY 4GB Edition graphics card is considered budget with poor modern game performance when playing anything more demanding than indie game requirements.

DirectX 12 gaming system requirements will be met by this gpu.

Here is a performance review on how capable the GeForce GTX 970 PNY 4GB Edition is at running the more popular games of 2023. Specifically looking at this PC hardware’s ability to get suitable frames per second to play on Ultra game settings and what FPS it might get on 1080p, 1440p and 4K screen res. Of the 1000 most demanding recommended specs found in game requirements today, this gpu is more powerful than the graphics requirement of 375 games in todays list.

The GeForce GTX 970 PNY 4GB Edition graphics card is returning a weak performance on Dying Light 2 at 1080p of 21 frames per second at Ultra graphics settings. Another popular title that is good to benchmark graphics cards against is Days Gone which we saw got playable frame rates of 44 FPS. A third game we can look at on Ultra at 1080p is the popular Resident Evil 8, which was getting 27 FPS under tests.

Next up we increase screen res tests to accommodate the growing in popularity 1440p screen size. So we booted up Dying Light 2 to see how the GeForce GTX 970 PNY 4GB Edition dealt with it. It scored up a weak series of FPS results across these graphics presets - Low: 41 FPS, Medium: 33 FPS, High: 22 FPS and Ultra: 16 FPS. Next we looked at Days Gone which was playable with a 33 FPS at Ultra 1440p. And finally looked at Resident Evil 8 that got an Ultra 1440p FPS of 20. 1440p GeForce GTX 970 PNY 4GB Edition PC gaming is likely in need of some graphical option tweaks when trying to play modern games.

How many years will the GeForce GTX 970 PNY 4GB Edition graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the GeForce GTX 970 PNY 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 PNY 4GB Edition? There are no graphics cards on the current market that would provide a big enough increase in performance to warrant upgrading the GeForce GTX 970 PNY 4GB Edition.