10 Aug 2021 - Graphics card reviewed

This computer hardware provides top end graphics. The GeForce GTX 970 Zotac AMP! Extreme Core 4GB Edition SLI will easily meet recommended system requirements of games released today. This is a strong benchmarker on modern games and can often return excellent frame rates at high and ultra 1080p. But the GeForce GTX 970 Zotac AMP! Extreme Core 4GB Edition SLI can also run 1440p pc system requirements.

All games with system requirements of DirectX 12 or lower are met by this card.

Here is a quick game performance synopsis for the AAA games played in 2023. In particular we focus on how well the GeForce GTX 970 Zotac AMP! Extreme Core 4GB Edition SLI runs at Ultra graphics settings and what frames per second it is getting at 1080p, 1440p and 4K monitor resolutions. When considering how well this graphics card can run the 1000 most demanding games available today it can best 968 of the games’ recommended graphics requirements.

A GeForce GTX 970 Zotac AMP! Extreme Core 4GB Edition SLI card at 1080p is seeing a reasonable frame rate when running Dying Light 2 on Ultra - 53 FPS. Lets look at the performance its getting on Days Gone which is 74 FPS. To add a bit more variety lets see how the popular Forza Horizon 5 performs on this hardware, which gets a reasonable 57 FPS.

Next up we increase screen res tests to accommodate the growing in popularity 1440p screen size. So we booted up Dying Light 2 to see how the GeForce GTX 970 Zotac AMP! Extreme Core 4GB Edition SLI dealt with it. It scored up a playable series of FPS results across these graphics presets - Low: 106 FPS, Medium: 83 FPS, High: 56 FPS and Ultra: 40 FPS. Next we looked at Days Gone which was reasonable with a 56 FPS at Ultra 1440p. And finally looked at Forza Horizon 5 that got an Ultra 1440p FPS of 43. Getting popular modern games to run at 1440p on the GeForce GTX 970 Zotac AMP! Extreme Core 4GB Edition SLI is certainly capable of running larger monitor gaming at Ultra or High graphics settings.

How many years will the GeForce GTX 970 Zotac AMP! Extreme Core 4GB Edition SLI graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the GeForce GTX 970 Zotac AMP! Extreme Core 4GB Edition SLI in your PC? This gpu has around 2+ years of running AAA recommended system requirements before any upgrades should be considered.

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the GeForce GTX 970 Zotac AMP! Extreme Core 4GB Edition SLI? There are no graphics cards on the current market that would provide a big enough increase in performance to warrant upgrading the GeForce GTX 970 Zotac AMP! Extreme Core 4GB Edition SLI.