27 Jul 2021 - Graphics card reviewed

Gamers upgrading will be considering the GeForce GTX 970 MSI Gaming 100 ME 4GB Edition graphics card as a serious price to performance entry point. This card will meet and play most demanding AAA games and do so with good graphics setting as standard, and confidently pushing past the recommended game system requirements needed to run today’s games. All games with system requirements of DirectX 12 or lower are met by this card.

We take a look at game performance achieved on this graphics card when running 2021 popular games. This short GeForce GTX 970 MSI Gaming 100 ME 4GB Edition 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 200 games in the list.

The GeForce GTX 970 MSI Gaming 100 ME 4GB Edition graphics card is predicted to return a reasonable performance on Star Citizen at 1080p of 50 frames per second at Ultra graphics settings. Another popular title that is good to benchmark graphics cards against is Far Cry 6 which we predict will get weak frame rates of 15 FPS. A third game we can look at on Ultra at 1080p is the popular FIFA 22, which is predicted to get 130 FPS under tests.

Moving screen sizes up to 1440p we researched Star Citizen on the GeForce GTX 970 MSI Gaming 100 ME 4GB Edition and predict it will get a playable set of frame rates. Here are the low to ultra predictions at 1440p - L: 100FPS, M: 79FPS, H: 53FPS, U: 38FPS. Another popular game to investigate at 1440p with this card was Far Cry 6 which we predicted will be weak in performance netting an Ultra FPS of 11 FPS. Finally we then took a look at FIFA 22 where its predicted Ultra 1440p Frame rates were strong at 99 FPS. Running games at 1440p with a GeForce GTX 970 MSI Gaming 100 ME 4GB Edition is one of the better graphics cards for gaming at this screen resolution. We will see 1440p Ultra and High settings across almost all current games.

How many years will the GeForce GTX 970 MSI Gaming 100 ME 4GB Edition graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the GeForce GTX 970 MSI Gaming 100 ME 4GB 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 970 MSI Gaming 100 ME 4GB Edition is part of your PC gaming machine.

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the GeForce GTX 970 MSI Gaming 100 ME 4GB Edition? If you want an upgrade suggestion for the GeForce GTX 970 MSI Gaming 100 ME 4GB Edition then a good choice would be 16 Series GeForce GTX 1660 Super 6GB as this is better than 759 of the top 1000 most demanding game requirements with 34% better performance as well. Alternatively a good upgrade choice for this graphics card today would be the R-500 Series Radeon RX Vega 56 8GB. For comparison of the 1000 most demanding games around today this suggested upgrade is 44% better and can meet 898 of their recommended requirements.