12 Jul 2021 - Graphics card reviewed

Gamers upgrading will be considering the GeForce GTX 970 Asus Turbo OC 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. Capable of running games with up to a DirectX 12 requirement.

Here is a performance review on how capable the GeForce GTX 970 Asus Turbo OC 4GB Edition is at running the more popular games of 2021. Specifically looking at this PC hardware’s ability to get suitable frames per second to play on Ultra game settings and what FPS it might get on 1080p, 1440p and 4K screen res. Of the 1000 most demanding recommended specs found in game requirements today, this gpu is more powerful than the graphics requirement of 198 games in todays list.

With 1080p being the most common gaming resolution at the moment we explored how well the GeForce GTX 970 Asus Turbo OC 4GB Edition can run F1 2021 at 1080p and saw it return playable frame rates at the following graphics settings - Low: 82 FPS, Medium: 64 FPS, High: 43 FPS and Ultra: 31 FPS. For performance contrast we can see that Resident Evil 8 returns a playable 30 FPS at Ultra 1080p.

One of the growing popular screen resolutions for PC gaming is the wider 1440p. So we wanted to see how well the GeForce GTX 970 Asus Turbo OC 4GB Edition performed at 1440p by taking a look at some of the current popular games. First we looked at F1 2021 and saw it deliver weak frames per second across the following graphics settings - Low: 62 FPS, Medium: 49 FPS, High: 33 FPS and Ultra: 24 FPS. We then checked the performance on Resident Evil 8 to see if that runs well. It was weak with a 23 FPS at Ultra 1440p. After a look at the popular games running at 1440p with the GeForce GTX 970 Asus Turbo OC 4GB Edition, this is a reasonable choice at this screen size. You can always tweak modern game graphics settings to help you get a better High graphics setting experience at 1440p.

How many years will the GeForce GTX 970 Asus Turbo OC 4GB Edition graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the GeForce GTX 970 Asus Turbo OC 4GB Edition in your PC? We think this GeForce GTX 970 Asus Turbo OC 4GB Edition has around 6-12 months until an upgrade should be considered.

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the GeForce GTX 970 Asus Turbo OC 4GB Edition? Are you looking to upgrade a GeForce GTX 970 Asus Turbo OC 4GB Edition? Then we would suggest getting a 16 Series GeForce GTX 1660 Super 6GB, as it can run 762 of the top 1000 demanding game requirements today with 36% increased graphics performance. Alternatively a good choice when looking to upgrade the GeForce GTX 970 Asus Turbo OC 4GB Edition would be the R-500 Series Radeon RX Vega 56 8GB which meets 900 of the 1000 top game’s recommended system requirements and has 45% better performance.