10 Aug 2021 - Graphics card reviewed

Gamers upgrading will be considering the GeForce GTX 1070 Zotac Founders Edition 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.

Game performance for the GeForce GTX 1070 Zotac Founders Edition 8GB where we look at the bigger games played in 2023. Looking closely at the graphics card frame rate performance on Ultra graphics settings at 1080p, 1440p and 4K screen resolutions. We look at 1000 of the most demanding games available today and this GPU is better than the recommended graphics requirement of more than 802 games in the list.

With 1080p being the most common gaming resolution at the moment we explored how well the GeForce GTX 1070 Zotac Founders Edition 8GB can run Star Citizen at 1080p and predict it will return good frame rates at the following graphics settings - Low: 194 FPS, Medium: 153 FPS, High: 103 FPS and Ultra: 74 FPS. For performance contrast we can see that Grand Theft Auto VI is predicted to return a reasonable 46 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 Zotac Founders Edition 8GB to see how it performs on 1440p. First off we have researched Star Citizen and predict it will be reasonable. The frame rates predicted for the game presets were - Low: 148 FPS, Medium: 117 FPS, High: 78 FPS and Ultra: 56 FPS. We added Grand Theft Auto VI to our research and predict it will be playable with a 35 FPS at Ultra 1440p. And then tested Far Cry 6 which got 34 FPS at Ultra 1440p. Gaming at 1440p with the GeForce GTX 1070 Zotac Founders Edition 8GB is one of the better graphics cards for gaming at this screen resolution. We will see 1440p Ultra and High settings across almost all current games.

How many years will the GeForce GTX 1070 Zotac Founders Edition 8GB graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the GeForce GTX 1070 Zotac Founders Edition 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 Zotac Founders Edition 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 Zotac Founders Edition 8GB.