10 Aug 2021 - Graphics card reviewed

Based on current gaming requirements the GeForce GTX 960 EVGA SuperSC ACX 2.0+ 2GB Edition is considered one of the weakest cards and wont meet modern AAA game specs.

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 960 EVGA SuperSC ACX 2.0+ 2GB 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 2023. We look at 1000 of the most demanding games available today and this GPU is better than the recommended graphics requirement of more than 169 games in the list.

The GeForce GTX 960 EVGA SuperSC ACX 2.0+ 2GB Edition graphics card is predicted to return a playable performance on Star Citizen at 1080p of 28 frames per second at Ultra graphics settings. Another popular title that is good to benchmark graphics cards against is Resident Evil 8 which we saw got weak frame rates of 0 FPS. A third game we can look at on Ultra at 1080p is the popular Days Gone, which was getting 19 FPS under tests.

We move on to 1440p, and predict that Star Citizen will deliver weak FPS results. Here are the graphic presets - Low: 56 FPS, Medium: 44 FPS, High: 30 FPS and Ultra: 21 FPS. Next we have Resident Evil 8 running on GeForce GTX 960 EVGA SuperSC ACX 2.0+ 2GB Edition which gets L: 0FPS, M: 0FPS, H: 0FPS, U: 0FPS. And for performance contrast the popular Days Gone gets L: 37FPS, M: 29FPS, H: 20FPS, U: 14FPS at 1440p. Getting popular modern games to run at 1440p on the GeForce GTX 960 EVGA SuperSC ACX 2.0+ 2GB Edition is unable to perform adequately across modern games at this increased resolution.

How many years will the GeForce GTX 960 EVGA SuperSC ACX 2.0+ 2GB Edition graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the GeForce GTX 960 EVGA SuperSC ACX 2.0+ 2GB Edition in your PC? There is around 6-12 months of top end gaming left in this card, at which point its graphics card replacement time, assuming the GeForce GTX 960 EVGA SuperSC ACX 2.0+ 2GB Edition is part of your PC gaming machine.

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the GeForce GTX 960 EVGA SuperSC ACX 2.0+ 2GB Edition? Are you looking to upgrade a GeForce GTX 960 EVGA SuperSC ACX 2.0+ 2GB Edition? Then we would suggest getting a RX 5000 Series Radeon RX 5500 XT 8GB, as it can run 716 of the top 1000 demanding game requirements today with 68% increased graphics performance. Alternatively if you want an upgrade suggestion for the GeForce GTX 960 EVGA SuperSC ACX 2.0+ 2GB Edition then a good choice would be RX 5000 Series Radeon RX 5300 as this is better than 300 of the top 1000 most demanding game requirements with 34% better performance as well.