10 Aug 2021 - Graphics card reviewed

Gamers upgrading will be considering the GeForce GTX 1070 EVGA ACX 3.0 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 EVGA ACX 3.0 8GB Edition is capable of DirectX 12 gaming requirements.

Here we take a closer look at the various performances across 1080p, 1440p and 4K screen resolutions for the GeForce GTX 1070 EVGA ACX 3.0 8GB Edition. In particular this is looking at the Ultra graphics settings to see what sort of FPS this graphics card can get across some of the more popular games played in 2023. This card runs recommended graphics requirements of 802 games from the top 1000 most demanding games being played today.

With 1080p being the most common gaming resolution at the moment we explored how well the GeForce GTX 1070 EVGA ACX 3.0 8GB Edition can run FIFA 22 at 1080p and saw it return strong frame rates at the following graphics settings - Low: 298 FPS, Medium: 235 FPS, High: 158 FPS and Ultra: 113 FPS. For performance contrast we can see that Forza Horizon 5 returns a reasonable 50 FPS at Ultra 1080p.

People are turning their increasingly more powerful graphics cards to the popular 1440p screen size so we tested the GeForce GTX 1070 EVGA ACX 3.0 8GB Edition to see how it performs on 1440p. First off we have looked at FIFA 22 where it was strong. The frame rates it scored for the game presets were - Low: 228 FPS, Medium: 179 FPS, High: 121 FPS and Ultra: 86 FPS. We added Forza Horizon 5 to our tests and saw it was playable with a 38 FPS at Ultra 1440p. And then tested Days Gone which got 50 FPS at Ultra 1440p. Running games at 1440p with a GeForce GTX 1070 EVGA ACX 3.0 8GB Edition is one of the more powerful graphics cards for this monitor resolution. Games will be running with stable frame rates at Ultra on a 1440p setup. 4K gaming for a number of modern games should also be considered with this graphics hardware.

How many years will the GeForce GTX 1070 EVGA ACX 3.0 8GB Edition graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the GeForce GTX 1070 EVGA ACX 3.0 8GB Edition in your PC? No graphics card upgrade required for 2 to 3 years of meeting top end game system requirements

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the GeForce GTX 1070 EVGA ACX 3.0 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 EVGA ACX 3.0 8GB Edition.