10 Aug 2021 - Graphics card reviewed

Based on current gaming requirements the GeForce GTX 960 Gainward Phantom GLH 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 Gainward Phantom GLH 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 185 games in the list.

The GeForce GTX 960 Gainward Phantom GLH 2GB Edition graphics card is returning a weak performance on Far Cry 6 at 1080p of 0 frames per second at Ultra graphics settings. Another popular title that is good to benchmark graphics cards against is Dying Light 2 which we saw got weak frame rates of 0 FPS. A third game we can look at on Ultra at 1080p is the popular Battlefield 2042, which was getting 0 FPS under tests.

We move on to 1440p, and tested Far Cry 6 which delivered weak FPS results. Here are the graphic presets - Low: 0 FPS, Medium: 0 FPS, High: 0 FPS and Ultra: 0 FPS. Next we have Dying Light 2 running on GeForce GTX 960 Gainward Phantom GLH 2GB Edition which gets L: 0FPS, M: 0FPS, H: 0FPS, U: 0FPS. And for performance contrast the popular Battlefield 2042 gets L: 0FPS, M: 0FPS, H: 0FPS, U: 0FPS at 1440p. Getting popular modern games to run at 1440p on the GeForce GTX 960 Gainward Phantom GLH 2GB Edition is not a viable PC gaming choice.

How many years will the GeForce GTX 960 Gainward Phantom GLH 2GB Edition graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the GeForce GTX 960 Gainward Phantom GLH 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 Gainward Phantom GLH 2GB Edition is part of your PC gaming machine.

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the GeForce GTX 960 Gainward Phantom GLH 2GB Edition? If you want an upgrade suggestion for the GeForce GTX 960 Gainward Phantom GLH 2GB Edition then a good choice would be RX 5000 Series Radeon RX 5500 XT 8GB as this is better than 716 of the top 1000 most demanding game requirements with 64% better performance as well. Alternatively upgrading this graphics card would have us consider the RX 5000 Series Radeon RX 5300 which is 32% more powerful. This upgrade choice can also run 300 games from the most demanding games today.