14 Nov 2019 - Graphics card reviewed

This graphics card offers upper mid level gaming performance. The Radeon HD 7970 GHz MSI Lightning BE 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. Radeon HD 7970 GHz MSI Lightning BE 3GB Edition is capable of DirectX 12 gaming requirements.

This PC hardware performance game review for the Radeon HD 7970 GHz MSI Lightning BE 3GB Edition graphics card, when running 2019 more popular games, lets us see what type of FPS this card gets when playing at 1080p, 1440p and 4K screen resolutions and ultra settings. This graphics hardware can run 376 of the 1000 most demanding PC games played today.

A Radeon HD 7970 GHz MSI Lightning BE 3GB Edition card at 1080p is seeing a playable frame rate when running Red Dead Redemption 2 on Ultra - 37 FPS. Lets look at the predicted performance it will get on Diablo 4 which is 11 FPS. To add a bit more variety lets see how the popular Call of Duty: Modern Warfare performs on this hardware, which gets a playable 37 FPS.

Next up we increase screen res tests to accommodate the growing in popularity 1440p screen size. So we booted up Red Dead Redemption 2 to see how the Radeon HD 7970 GHz MSI Lightning BE 3GB Edition dealt with it. It scored up a playable series of FPS results across these graphics presets - Low: 75 FPS, Medium: 59 FPS, High: 40 FPS and Ultra: 28 FPS. Next we looked at Diablo 4 which we predict will be weak with a 8 FPS at Ultra 1440p. And finally looked at Call of Duty: Modern Warfare that got an Ultra 1440p FPS of 28. Looking at a few of these 1440p results for the Radeon HD 7970 GHz MSI Lightning BE 3GB Edition we get the impression that it is going to need to lower its graphics settings to medium on modern games.

How many years will the Radeon HD 7970 GHz MSI Lightning BE 3GB Edition graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the Radeon HD 7970 GHz MSI Lightning BE 3GB 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 Radeon HD 7970 GHz MSI Lightning BE 3GB Edition? A great upgrade graphics card would be a 16 Series GeForce GTX 1660 Super 6GB, which has 66% better performance and can run 899 of the top 1000 demanding game requirements today. Alternatively if you want an upgrade suggestion for the Radeon HD 7970 GHz MSI Lightning BE 3GB Edition then a good choice would be RX 5000 Series Radeon RX 5500 4GB as this is better than 688 of the top 1000 most demanding game requirements with 24% better performance as well.