28 Nov 2019 - Graphics card reviewed

This graphics card offers upper mid level gaming performance. The Radeon HD 7970 VTX3D X 3GB Edition GPU could struggle if it was to try and run the most demanding games available today, but it meets a lot of game system requirements found in today’s games. This card meets game requirements up to DirectX 12.

We take a look at game performance achieved on this graphics card when running 2019 popular games. This short Radeon HD 7970 VTX3D X 3GB Edition game hardware review looks at the graphics card frame rate performance on Ultra graphics settings at 1080p, 1440p and 4K screen resolutions. In terms of performance against the most demanding games today this graphics card can play 314 of the 1000 most demanding PC games beating their recommended requirements.

The Radeon HD 7970 VTX3D X 3GB Edition graphics card is returning a strong performance on FIFA 20 at 1080p of 104 frames per second at Ultra graphics settings. Another popular title that is good to benchmark graphics cards against is Borderlands 3 which we saw got weak frame rates of 18 FPS. A third game we can look at on Ultra at 1080p is the popular Halo: Reach, which was getting 109 FPS under tests.

People are turning their increasingly more powerful graphics cards to the popular 1440p screen size so we tested the Radeon HD 7970 VTX3D X 3GB Edition to see how it performs on 1440p. First off we have looked at FIFA 20 where it was good. The frame rates it scored for the game presets were - Low: 178 FPS, Medium: 149 FPS, High: 109 FPS and Ultra: 79 FPS. We added Borderlands 3 to our tests and saw it was weak with a 13 FPS at Ultra 1440p. And then tested Halo: Reach which got 83 FPS at Ultra 1440p. After a look at the popular games running at 1440p with the Radeon HD 7970 VTX3D X 3GB Edition, this is easily capable of pc gaming across these screen resolutions. Turn the game settings up to Ultra at 1440p. This GPU is also capable of running a solid FPS across a lot of games at 4K resolution as well.

How many years will the Radeon HD 7970 VTX3D X 3GB Edition graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the Radeon HD 7970 VTX3D X 3GB Edition in your PC? 12-18 months of top end gaming is still left in this graphics card

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the Radeon HD 7970 VTX3D X 3GB Edition? A good choice when looking to upgrade the Radeon HD 7970 VTX3D X 3GB Edition would be the 16 Series GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 6GB which meets 900 of the 1000 top game’s recommended system requirements and has 94% better performance. An alternative great upgrade graphics card would be a RX 5000 Series Radeon RX 5500 4GB, which has 43% better performance and can run 674 of the top 1000 demanding game requirements today.