4 Jul 2020 - 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 2020 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 479 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 Doom Eternal is getting a reasonable result of 46 FPS, and then we are seeing Valorant returning a strong 495 FPS while another game on our list is the Assassins Creed: Valhalla which is predicted to get 20 frames per second at Ultra 1080p.

Next up we increase screen res tests to accommodate the growing in popularity 1440p screen size. So we booted up Valorant to see how the GeForce GTX 970 Gigabyte Twin Turbo OC 4GB Edition dealt with it. It scored up a strong series of FPS results across these graphics presets - Low: 997 FPS, Medium: 785 FPS, High: 529 FPS and Ultra: 378 FPS. Next we looked at Assassins Creed: Valhalla which we predict will be weak with a 15 FPS at Ultra 1440p. And finally looked at Doom Eternal that got an Ultra 1440p FPS of 35. 1440p GeForce GTX 970 Gigabyte Twin Turbo OC 4GB Edition PC gaming is probably one of the better high resolution gaming options on the graphics card market. You can consider pushing most games up to 4K with this gpu and Ultra 1440p is going to be a regular occurrence for gaming today.

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 856 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 948 of the top 1000 most demanding game requirements with 45% better performance as well.