20 Feb 2021 - Graphics card reviewed

Gamers upgrading will be considering the GeForce GTX 970 Gigabyte Twin 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. This card meets game requirements up to DirectX 12.

How well will the GeForce GTX 970 Gigabyte Twin Turbo OC 4GB Edition run 2021 games? We will take a look at the biggest releases and frames per second analysis on Ultra graphics settings. In terms of performance against the most demanding games today this graphics card can play 311 of the 1000 most demanding PC games beating their recommended requirements.

The 1080p FPS on Ultra for the GeForce GTX 970 Gigabyte Twin Turbo OC 4GB Edition shows us that Watch Dogs Legion is getting a reasonable result of 46 FPS, and then we are seeing Grand Theft Auto VI predicted to return a weak 24 FPS while another game on our list is the Hitman 3 which is getting 30 frames per second at Ultra 1080p.

Next up we increase screen res tests to accommodate the growing in popularity 1440p screen size. So we researched the upcoming Grand Theft Auto VI to predict how the GeForce GTX 970 Gigabyte Twin Turbo OC 4GB Edition would deal with it. Our research revealed a weak series of FPS results across these graphics presets - Low: 47 FPS, Medium: 37 FPS, High: 25 FPS and Ultra: 18 FPS. Next we looked at Hitman 3 which was weak with a 23 FPS at Ultra 1440p. And finally looked at Watch Dogs Legion that got an Ultra 1440p FPS of 35. 1440p GeForce GTX 970 Gigabyte Twin Turbo OC 4GB Edition PC gaming is ok at playing most games but might need to have the graphics settings lowered to medium preset in some cases.

How many years will the GeForce GTX 970 Gigabyte Twin Turbo OC 4GB Edition graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the GeForce GTX 970 Gigabyte Twin Turbo OC 4GB Edition in your PC? Our current calculations suggest a graphics card upgrade will be required in around 12-18 months

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the GeForce GTX 970 Gigabyte Twin Turbo OC 4GB Edition? A good upgrade choice for this graphics card today would be the 16 Series GeForce GTX 1660 Super 6GB. For comparison of the 1000 most demanding games around today this suggested upgrade is 36% better and can meet 800 of their recommended requirements. Alternatively if you want an upgrade suggestion for the GeForce GTX 970 Gigabyte Twin Turbo OC 4GB Edition then a good choice would be R-500 Series Radeon RX Vega 56 8GB as this is better than 908 of the top 1000 most demanding game requirements with 45% better performance as well.