10 Aug 2021 - Graphics card reviewed

A mid to low level graphics card, the GeForce GTX 960 2GB SLI is found in budget machines nowadays, struggling to meet AAA system requirements.

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

We take a look at game performance achieved on this graphics card when running 2022 popular games. This short GeForce GTX 960 2GB SLI game hardware review looks at the graphics card frame rate performance on Ultra graphics settings at 1080p, 1440p and 4K screen resolutions. We look at 1000 of the most demanding games available today and this GPU is better than the recommended graphics requirement of more than 444 games in the list.

The GeForce GTX 960 2GB SLI graphics card is returning a reasonable performance on Back 4 Blood at 1080p of 54 frames per second at Ultra graphics settings. Another popular title that is good to benchmark graphics cards against is Star Citizen which we predict will get reasonable frame rates of 51 FPS. A third game we can look at on Ultra at 1080p is the popular Forza Horizon 5, which was getting 32 FPS under tests.

One of the growing popular screen resolutions for PC gaming is the wider 1440p. So we wanted to see how well the GeForce GTX 960 2GB SLI performed at 1440p by taking a look at some of the current popular games. First we looked at Back 4 Blood and saw it deliver playable frames per second across the following graphics settings - Low: 108 FPS, Medium: 85 FPS, High: 57 FPS and Ultra: 41 FPS. We then checked the performance on Star Citizen to predict if that will run well. It is predicted to be playable with a 39 FPS at Ultra 1440p. 1440p GeForce GTX 960 2GB SLI PC gaming is a perfectly suitable selection of hardware for theis larger screen size. If a game at 1440p struggles a bit or experiences a frame drop then you can tweak settings in game to help get it stable. This might mean lowering it to medium or low in some specific options.

How many years will the GeForce GTX 960 2GB SLI graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the GeForce GTX 960 2GB SLI in your PC? This GeForce GTX 960 2GB SLI card has 12 to 18 months of latest AAA game play left in it before upgrading should be considered

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the GeForce GTX 960 2GB SLI? There are no graphics cards on the current market that would provide a big enough increase in performance to warrant upgrading the GeForce GTX 960 2GB SLI.