27 Jul 2021 - Graphics card reviewed

Gamers upgrading will be considering the GeForce GTX 970 Zotac AMP! Omega Core 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 Zotac AMP! Omega Core 4GB Edition game hardware review looks at the graphics card frame rate performance on Ultra graphics settings at 1080p, 1440p and 4K screen resolutions. 252 games can be played by this graphics card of the 1000 most demanding games being played by PC gamers today.

Now onto the frame rates achieved at 1080p. We are seeing Resident Evil 8 getting 31 FPS with the GeForce GTX 970 Zotac AMP! Omega Core 4GB Edition, Grand Theft Auto VI predicted to get 25 FPS and Battlefield 6 predicted to get 37 frames per second. All run on Ultra at 1920x1080 screen res.

Increasing resolution to 1440p is something a number of PC gamers are doing today. We tested the GeForce GTX 970 Zotac AMP! Omega Core 4GB Edition at 1440p with Resident Evil 8, which got a weak set of FPS results. These were, Low: 61 FPS, Medium: 48 FPS, High: 33 FPS and Ultra: 23 FPS. We then checked out Grand Theft Auto VI which we predict would have a set of graphics results as followed, L: 50FPS, M: 40FPS, H: 27FPS, U: 19FPS. And another popular game was Battlefield 6 with predictions of L: 51FPS, M: 40FPS, H: 35FPS, U: 28FPS at 1440p. Getting popular modern games to run at 1440p on the GeForce GTX 970 Zotac AMP! Omega Core 4GB Edition is not a first choice gaming resolution. While this graphics card would likely be more suited to 1080p gaming, you may be able to make some graphical tweaks in the game options to improve your stability at 1440p.

How many years will the GeForce GTX 970 Zotac AMP! Omega Core 4GB Edition graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the GeForce GTX 970 Zotac AMP! Omega Core 4GB Edition in your PC? This GeForce GTX 970 Zotac AMP! Omega Core 4GB Edition card has 12 to 18 months of latest AAA game play left in it before upgrading should be considered

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the GeForce GTX 970 Zotac AMP! Omega Core 4GB Edition? If you are thinking of upgrading this graphics card then we would currently suggest the 16 Series GeForce GTX 1660 Super 6GB. This PC hardware upgrade performs 33% better and can run 759 of today’s 1000 most demanding PC games. Alternatively upgrading this graphics card would have us consider the R-500 Series Radeon RX Vega 56 8GB which is 42% more powerful. This upgrade choice can also run 898 games from the most demanding games today.