2 Aug 2020 - Graphics card reviewed

The GeForce GTX 970 Zotac 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 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.

We take a look at game performance achieved on this graphics card when running 2020 popular games. This short GeForce GTX 970 Zotac 4GB Edition SLI game hardware review looks at the graphics card frame rate performance on Ultra graphics settings at 1080p, 1440p and 4K screen resolutions. 945 games can be played by this graphics card of the 1000 most demanding games being played by PC gamers today.

First we looked at 1080p resolution for the GeForce GTX 970 Zotac 4GB Edition SLI performance to explore what sort of benchmarks it would achieve on the popular title Cyberpunk 2077 and predict it will deliver reasonable frames per second across the following graphics settings - Low: 137 FPS, Medium: 108 FPS, High: 73 FPS and Ultra: 52 FPS. We proceeded to look at Grand Theft Auto VI to see how that compared and predict that it will return a reasonable 48 FPS at Ultra 1080p.

As the PC gaming masses explore larger screen resolutions we decided to run some game checks at 1440p across a few popular games. We predict the GeForce GTX 970 Zotac 4GB Edition SLI will run the upcoming game Cyberpunk 2077 to a playable performance level. Predictions across the graphics settings looked like this, Low: 105 FPS, Medium: 82 FPS, High: 56 FPS and Ultra: 40 FPS. Another game researched was Grand Theft Auto VI with predictions of L: 97FPS, M: 76FPS, H: 51FPS, U: 37FPS. And then we researched potential graphics card performance on Microsoft Flight Simulator, wih estimates revealing L: 154FPS, M: 121FPS, H: 82FPS, U: 58FPS at 1440p. Getting popular modern games to run at 1440p on the GeForce GTX 970 Zotac 4GB Edition SLI is a good choice of hardware for increased screen resolution gaming. We can see this graphics card is capable of delivering reliable frame rates at Ultra and certainly High graphics settings at 1440p.

How many years will the GeForce GTX 970 Zotac 4GB Edition SLI graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the GeForce GTX 970 Zotac 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 4GB Edition SLI? Are you looking to upgrade a GeForce GTX 970 Zotac 4GB Edition SLI? Then we would suggest getting a 20 Series GeForce RTX 2070 Super 8GB, as it can run 992 of the top 1000 demanding game requirements today with 25% increased graphics performance. Alternatively we would suggest getting a RX 5000 Series Radeon RX 5800 XT, as it can run 991 of the top 1000 demanding game requirements today with 22% increased graphics performance.