7 Mar 2021 - Graphics card reviewedThe 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 2021. This graphics hardware can run 968 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 Hitman 3 and saw it deliver reasonable frames per second across the following graphics settings - Low: 149 FPS, Medium: 118 FPS, High: 79 FPS and Ultra: 57 FPS. We proceeded to look at Grand Theft Auto VI to see how that compared and predict that it will return a reasonable 52 FPS at Ultra 1080p.
We move on to 1440p, and tested Hitman 3 which delivered playable FPS results. Here are the graphic presets - Low: 114 FPS, Medium: 90 FPS, High: 60 FPS and Ultra: 43 FPS. Next we have Grand Theft Auto VI running on GeForce GTX 970 Zotac AMP! Extreme 4GB Edition SLI which is predicted to get L: 105FPS, M: 82FPS, H: 56FPS, U: 40FPS. And for performance contrast the popular Resident Evil 8 is predicted to get L: 103FPS, M: 81FPS, H: 54FPS, U: 39FPS 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 995 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 995 of the top 1000 demanding game requirements today.