10 Aug 2021 - Graphics card reviewed

Gamers upgrading will be considering the GeForce GTX 1070 MSI Armor 8GB 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 1070 MSI Armor 8GB Edition is capable of DirectX 12 gaming requirements.

Lets look at the GeForce GTX 1070 MSI Armor 8GB Edition game performance guide for some of the biggest games played in 2022. In particular we will see how well this graphics card runs on Ultra settings on 1080p resolution as well as 1440p and 4K. Of the 1000 most demanding recommended specs found in game requirements today, this gpu is more powerful than the graphics requirement of 810 games in todays list.

A GeForce GTX 1070 MSI Armor 8GB Edition card at 1080p is seeing a reasonable frame rate when running Far Cry 6 on Ultra - 45 FPS. Lets look at the performance its getting on Days Gone which is 65 FPS. To add a bit more variety lets see how the popular Grand Theft Auto VI is predicted to perform on this hardware, which gets a reasonable 46 FPS.

We move on to 1440p, and tested Far Cry 6 which delivered playable FPS results. Here are the graphic presets - Low: 91 FPS, Medium: 71 FPS, High: 48 FPS and Ultra: 34 FPS. Next we have Days Gone running on GeForce GTX 1070 MSI Armor 8GB Edition which gets L: 131FPS, M: 103FPS, H: 69FPS, U: 50FPS. And for performance contrast the popular Grand Theft Auto VI is predicted to get L: 93FPS, M: 73FPS, H: 49FPS, U: 35FPS at 1440p. Gaming at 1440p with the GeForce GTX 1070 MSI Armor 8GB Edition is a good choice of hardware for increased screen resolution gaming. We can see this graphics card is capable of delivering reliable frame rates at Ultra and certainly High graphics settings at 1440p.

How many years will the GeForce GTX 1070 MSI Armor 8GB Edition graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the GeForce GTX 1070 MSI Armor 8GB Edition in your PC? This gpu has around 2+ years of running AAA recommended system requirements before any upgrades should be considered.

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the GeForce GTX 1070 MSI Armor 8GB Edition? There are no graphics cards on the current market that would provide a big enough increase in performance to warrant upgrading the GeForce GTX 1070 MSI Armor 8GB Edition.