28 Oct 2020 - 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 2020 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 403 games in the list.

The GeForce GTX 970 MSI Gaming 100 ME 4GB Edition graphics card is returning a strong performance on eFootball PES 2021 at 1080p of 88 frames per second at Ultra graphics settings. Another popular title that is good to benchmark graphics cards against is Genshin Impact which we saw got reasonable frame rates of 46 FPS. A third game we can look at on Ultra at 1080p is the popular Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, which is predicted to get 43 FPS under tests.

Moving screen sizes up to 1440p we ran eFootball PES 2021 on the GeForce GTX 970 MSI Gaming 100 ME 4GB Edition to see that it got a good set of frame rates. Here are the low to ultra results at 1440p - L: 176FPS, M: 139FPS, H: 93FPS, U: 67FPS. Another popular game to test at 1440p with this card was Genshin Impact which seemed playable in performance netting an Ultra FPS of 35 FPS. Finally we then took a look at Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War where its predicted Ultra 1440p Frame rates were playable at 32 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? Our current calculations suggest a graphics card upgrade will be required in around 12-18 months

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 823 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 926 of their recommended requirements.