10 Aug 2021 - Graphics card reviewed

This computer hardware provides top end graphics. The GeForce GTX 970 MSI Gaming 4GB Edition SLI will easily meet recommended system requirements of games released today. This is a strong benchmarker on modern games and can often return excellent frame rates at high and ultra 1080p. But the GeForce GTX 970 MSI Gaming 4GB Edition SLI can also run 1440p pc 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 970 MSI Gaming 4GB Edition SLI game hardware review looks at the graphics card frame rate performance on Ultra graphics settings at 1080p, 1440p and 4K screen resolutions. When considering how well this graphics card can run the 1000 most demanding games available today it can best 935 of the games’ recommended graphics requirements.

The GeForce GTX 970 MSI Gaming 4GB Edition SLI graphics card is returning a playable performance on Battlefield 2042 at 1080p of 43 frames per second at Ultra graphics settings. Another popular title that is good to benchmark graphics cards against is Grand Theft Auto VI 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 55 FPS under tests.

With PC gamers looking for larger screen sizes like 1440p we tested the GeForce GTX 970 MSI Gaming 4GB Edition SLI by playing Battlefield 2042 which yielded a playable performance. Its FPS results for the graphics settings are as follows - L: 86FPS, M: 67FPS, H: 45FPS, U: 32FPS. Another popular game we researched with this card was Grand Theft Auto VI and that was playable. This graphics card is predicted to deliver 39 FPS at Ultra 1440p. Another popular title was Forza Horizon 5 which gets playable results with a 42FPS on Ultra 1440p. Running games at 1440p with a GeForce GTX 970 MSI Gaming 4GB Edition SLI is ok at playing most games but might need to have the graphics settings lowered to medium preset in some cases.

How many years will the GeForce GTX 970 MSI Gaming 4GB Edition SLI graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the GeForce GTX 970 MSI Gaming 4GB Edition SLI in your PC? This gpu has around 2+ years of running AAA recommended system requirements before any upgrades should be considered.

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the GeForce GTX 970 MSI Gaming 4GB Edition 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 970 MSI Gaming 4GB Edition SLI.