10 Aug 2021 - Graphics card reviewed

This computer hardware provides top end graphics. The GeForce GTX 1070 MSI Quick Silver OC 8GB will easily meet recommended system requirements of games released today. This is a strong benchmarker on modern games and can often return excellent frame rates at high and ultra 1080p. But the GeForce GTX 1070 MSI Quick Silver OC 8GB can also run 1440p pc system requirements.

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

Here we take a closer look at the various performances across 1080p, 1440p and 4K screen resolutions for the GeForce GTX 1070 MSI Quick Silver OC 8GB. 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. The GeForce GTX 1070 MSI Quick Silver OC 8GB can run the recommended graphics system requirements for 906 games today, of the top 1000 most demanding.

With 1080p being the most common gaming resolution at the moment we explored how well the GeForce GTX 1070 MSI Quick Silver OC 8GB can run Star Citizen at 1080p and predict it will return good frame rates at the following graphics settings - Low: 203 FPS, Medium: 160 FPS, High: 108 FPS and Ultra: 77 FPS. For performance contrast we can see that Dying Light 2 returns a reasonable 49 FPS at Ultra 1080p.

We move on to 1440p, and predict that Star Citizen will deliver reasonable FPS results. Here are the graphic presets - Low: 155 FPS, Medium: 122 FPS, High: 82 FPS and Ultra: 59 FPS. Next we have Dying Light 2 running on GeForce GTX 1070 MSI Quick Silver OC 8GB which gets L: 98FPS, M: 77FPS, H: 52FPS, U: 37FPS. And for performance contrast the popular FIFA 22 gets L: 239FPS, M: 188FPS, H: 127FPS, U: 90FPS at 1440p. In summary we feel the GeForce GTX 1070 MSI Quick Silver OC 8GB running at 1440p 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 MSI Quick Silver OC 8GB graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the GeForce GTX 1070 MSI Quick Silver OC 8GB 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 MSI Quick Silver 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 MSI Quick Silver OC 8GB.