20 Feb 2021 - Graphics card reviewed

Gamers upgrading will be considering the GeForce GTX 970 KFA2 EXOC Sniper 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. GeForce GTX 970 KFA2 EXOC Sniper 4GB Edition is capable of DirectX 12 gaming requirements.

How well will the GeForce GTX 970 KFA2 EXOC Sniper 4GB Edition run 2021 games? We will take a look at the biggest releases and frames per second analysis on Ultra graphics settings. Of the 1000 most demanding recommended specs found in game requirements today, this gpu is more powerful than the graphics requirement of 374 games in todays list.

With 1080p being the most common gaming resolution at the moment we explored how well the GeForce GTX 970 KFA2 EXOC Sniper 4GB Edition can run Cyberpunk 2077 at 1080p and saw it return reasonable frame rates at the following graphics settings - Low: 123 FPS, Medium: 97 FPS, High: 65 FPS and Ultra: 47 FPS. For performance contrast we can see that Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War returns a reasonable 53 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 KFA2 EXOC Sniper 4GB Edition performed at 1440p by taking a look at some of the current popular games. First we looked at Cyberpunk 2077 and saw it deliver playable frames per second across the following graphics settings - Low: 94 FPS, Medium: 74 FPS, High: 50 FPS and Ultra: 35 FPS. We then checked the performance on Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War to see if that runs well. It was playable with a 40 FPS at Ultra 1440p. Gaming at 1440p with the GeForce GTX 970 KFA2 EXOC Sniper 4GB Edition is certainly a viable option for these higher gaming resolutions. Remember that if you suffer some 1440p FPS drops the you can usually tweak modern game graphics settings until you get a near High graphics setting experience with this Graphics card.

How many years will the GeForce GTX 970 KFA2 EXOC Sniper 4GB Edition graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the GeForce GTX 970 KFA2 EXOC Sniper 4GB Edition in your PC? This GeForce GTX 970 KFA2 EXOC Sniper 4GB Edition card has 12 to 18 months of latest AAA game play left in it before upgrading should be considered

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the GeForce GTX 970 KFA2 EXOC Sniper 4GB Edition? Upgrading this graphics card would have us consider the 16 Series GeForce GTX 1660 Super 6GB which is 33% more powerful. This upgrade choice can also run 800 games from the most demanding games today. Alternatively a good upgrade choice for this graphics card today would be the R-500 Series Radeon RX Vega 56 8GB. For comparison of the 1000 most demanding games around today this suggested upgrade is 42% better and can meet 908 of their recommended requirements.