10 Aug 2021 - Graphics card reviewed

Gamers upgrading will be considering the GeForce GTX 1070 Gigabyte Mini ITX OC 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.

DirectX 12 gaming system requirements will be met by this gpu.

Lets look at the GeForce GTX 1070 Gigabyte Mini ITX OC 8GB 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. 891 games can be played by this graphics card of the 1000 most demanding games being played by PC gamers today.

Running at 1080p this card gets a reasonable frame rate from Far Cry 6 with 46 FPS on Ultra. Then we take a look at Star Citizen which is predicted to return a good 75 FPS. Another title that we looked at is the popular Grand Theft Auto VI which we predict will get a reasonable 47 FPS.

Next up we increase screen res tests to accommodate the growing in popularity 1440p screen size. So we booted up Far Cry 6 to see how the GeForce GTX 1070 Gigabyte Mini ITX OC 8GB dealt with it. It scored up a playable series of FPS results across these graphics presets - Low: 93 FPS, Medium: 73 FPS, High: 49 FPS and Ultra: 35 FPS. Next we looked at Star Citizen which we predict will be reasonable with a 57 FPS at Ultra 1440p. And finally looked at Grand Theft Auto VI that we predict will get an Ultra 1440p FPS of 36. Gaming at 1440p with the GeForce GTX 1070 Gigabyte Mini ITX OC 8GB 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 Gigabyte Mini ITX OC 8GB graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the GeForce GTX 1070 Gigabyte Mini ITX OC 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 Gigabyte Mini ITX OC 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 Gigabyte Mini ITX OC 8GB.