10 Aug 2021 - Graphics card reviewed

Gamers upgrading will be considering the GeForce GTX 1070 Asus ROG Strix Gaming 8GB 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 Asus ROG Strix Gaming 8GB is capable of DirectX 12 gaming requirements.

Here is a quick game performance synopsis for the AAA games played in 2023. In particular we focus on how well the GeForce GTX 1070 Asus ROG Strix Gaming 8GB runs at Ultra graphics settings and what frames per second it is getting at 1080p, 1440p and 4K monitor resolutions. When considering how well this graphics card can run the 1000 most demanding games available today it can best 805 of the games’ recommended graphics requirements.

A GeForce GTX 1070 Asus ROG Strix Gaming 8GB card at 1080p is seeing a good frame rate when running Days Gone on Ultra - 66 FPS. Lets look at the performance its getting on Resident Evil 8 which is 51 FPS. To add a bit more variety lets see how the popular Dying Light 2 performs on this hardware, which gets a reasonable 47 FPS.

Next up we increase screen res tests to accommodate the growing in popularity 1440p screen size. So we booted up Days Gone to see how the GeForce GTX 1070 Asus ROG Strix Gaming 8GB dealt with it. It scored up a reasonable series of FPS results across these graphics presets - Low: 132 FPS, Medium: 104 FPS, High: 70 FPS and Ultra: 50 FPS. Next we looked at Resident Evil 8 which was playable with a 39 FPS at Ultra 1440p. And finally looked at Dying Light 2 that got an Ultra 1440p FPS of 35. 1440p GeForce GTX 1070 Asus ROG Strix Gaming 8GB PC gaming is a solid 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 Asus ROG Strix Gaming 8GB graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the GeForce GTX 1070 Asus ROG Strix Gaming 8GB in your PC? 2-3 years of top end gaming before an upgrade

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the GeForce GTX 1070 Asus ROG Strix Gaming 8GB? 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 Asus ROG Strix Gaming 8GB.