2 Aug 2020 - Graphics card reviewed

The GeForce GTX 970 Zotac AMP! Extreme 4GB Edition SLI will blast beyond the majority of games requirements at 1080p, so crank up your screen resolution to 1440p or 4K and let the beautiful AAA game visuals wash over you. This is how gaming is meant to be played but you are likely to have to pay top dollar for the GeForce GTX 970 Zotac AMP! Extreme 4GB Edition SLI privilege. But if you can get this graphics solution, then its happy gaming. All games with system requirements of DirectX 12 or lower are met by this card.

Here we take a closer look at the various performances across 1080p, 1440p and 4K screen resolutions for the GeForce GTX 970 Zotac AMP! Extreme 4GB Edition SLI. 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 2020. This graphics hardware can run 977 of the 1000 most demanding PC games played today.

First we looked at 1080p resolution for the GeForce GTX 970 Zotac AMP! Extreme 4GB Edition SLI performance to explore what sort of benchmarks it would achieve on the popular title Grounded and saw it deliver good frames per second across the following graphics settings - Low: 194 FPS, Medium: 153 FPS, High: 103 FPS and Ultra: 74 FPS. We proceeded to look at Horizon: Zero Dawn to see how that compared and saw that it returned a good 74 FPS at Ultra 1080p.

We move on to 1440p, and tested Grounded which delivered reasonable FPS results. Here are the graphic presets - Low: 148 FPS, Medium: 117 FPS, High: 78 FPS and Ultra: 56 FPS. Next we have Horizon: Zero Dawn running on GeForce GTX 970 Zotac AMP! Extreme 4GB Edition SLI which gets L: 148FPS, M: 117FPS, H: 78FPS, U: 56FPS. And for performance contrast the popular Marvel's Avengers is predicted to get L: 114FPS, M: 90FPS, H: 60FPS, U: 43FPS at 1440p. Getting popular modern games to run at 1440p on the GeForce GTX 970 Zotac AMP! Extreme 4GB Edition SLI is certainly a good graphics cards for this increased screen resolutions. It can confidentantly get High or Ultra graphics settings across almost all current games at 1440p.

How many years will the GeForce GTX 970 Zotac AMP! Extreme 4GB Edition SLI graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the GeForce GTX 970 Zotac AMP! Extreme 4GB Edition SLI in your PC? 2-3 years of top end gaming before an upgrade

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the GeForce GTX 970 Zotac AMP! Extreme 4GB Edition SLI? A good choice when looking to upgrade the GeForce GTX 970 Zotac AMP! Extreme 4GB Edition SLI would be the 20 Series GeForce RTX 2080 Super 8GB which meets 996 of the 1000 top game’s recommended system requirements and has 25% better performance. An alternative great upgrade graphics card would be a RX 5000 Series Radeon RX 5950 XT, which has 20% better performance and can run 996 of the top 1000 demanding game requirements today.