20 Feb 2021 - Graphics card reviewed

Gamers upgrading will be considering the GeForce GTX 970 EVGA SSC ACX+ 2.0 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 EVGA SSC ACX+ 2.0 4GB Edition game hardware review looks at the graphics card frame rate performance on Ultra graphics settings at 1080p, 1440p and 4K screen resolutions. 392 games can be played by this graphics card of the 1000 most demanding games being played by PC gamers today.

With 1080p being the most common gaming resolution at the moment we explored how well the GeForce GTX 970 EVGA SSC ACX+ 2.0 4GB Edition can run Assassins Creed: Valhalla at 1080p and saw it return playable frame rates at the following graphics settings - Low: 64 FPS, Medium: 55 FPS, High: 47 FPS and Ultra: 32 FPS. For performance contrast we can see that Grand Theft Auto VI is predicted to return a playable 26 FPS at Ultra 1080p.

One of the growing popular screen resolutions for PC gaming is the wider 1440p. So we wanted to see how well the GeForce GTX 970 EVGA SSC ACX+ 2.0 4GB Edition performed at 1440p by taking a look at some of the current popular games. First we looked at Assassins Creed: Valhalla and saw it deliver weak frames per second across the following graphics settings - Low: 49 FPS, Medium: 42 FPS, High: 36 FPS and Ultra: 24 FPS. We then checked the performance on Grand Theft Auto VI to predict if that will run well. It is predicted to be weak with a 19 FPS at Ultra 1440p. In summary we feel the GeForce GTX 970 EVGA SSC ACX+ 2.0 4GB Edition running at 1440p 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 EVGA SSC ACX+ 2.0 4GB Edition graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the GeForce GTX 970 EVGA SSC ACX+ 2.0 4GB Edition in your PC? 12-18 months of top end gaming is still left in this graphics card

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the GeForce GTX 970 EVGA SSC ACX+ 2.0 4GB Edition? A good upgrade choice for this graphics card today would be the 16 Series GeForce GTX 1660 Super 6GB. For comparison of the 1000 most demanding games around today this suggested upgrade is 32% better and can meet 802 of their recommended requirements. Alternatively if you want an upgrade suggestion for the GeForce GTX 970 EVGA SSC ACX+ 2.0 4GB Edition then a good choice would be R-500 Series Radeon RX Vega 56 8GB as this is better than 910 of the top 1000 most demanding game requirements with 41% better performance as well.