10 Aug 2021 - Graphics card reviewed

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

This PC hardware performance game review for the GeForce GTX 1070 MSI Aero OC 8GB Edition graphics card, when running 2023 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 card runs recommended graphics requirements of 806 games from the top 1000 most demanding games being played today.

Now onto the frame rates achieved at 1080p. We are seeing Back 4 Blood getting 74 FPS with the GeForce GTX 1070 MSI Aero OC 8GB Edition, Dying Light 2 getting 47 FPS and Far Cry 6 getting 46 frames per second. All run on Ultra at 1920x1080 screen res.

People are turning their increasingly more powerful graphics cards to the popular 1440p screen size so we tested the GeForce GTX 1070 MSI Aero OC 8GB Edition to see how it performs on 1440p. First off we have looked at Back 4 Blood where it was reasonable. The frame rates it scored for the game presets were - Low: 149 FPS, Medium: 117 FPS, High: 79 FPS and Ultra: 56 FPS. We added Dying Light 2 to our tests and saw it was playable with a 35 FPS at Ultra 1440p. And then tested Far Cry 6 which got 35 FPS at Ultra 1440p. Getting popular modern games to run at 1440p on the GeForce GTX 1070 MSI Aero OC 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 Aero OC 8GB Edition graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the GeForce GTX 1070 MSI Aero OC 8GB Edition in your PC? 2-3 years of top end gaming before an upgrade

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the GeForce GTX 1070 MSI Aero OC 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 Aero OC 8GB Edition.