10 Aug 2021 - Graphics card reviewed

This computer hardware provides top end graphics. The GeForce RTX 3070 MSI Ventus 2X 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 RTX 3070 MSI Ventus 2X 8GB can also run 1440p pc system requirements.

Capable of running games with up to a DirectX 12 requirement.

Here we take a closer look at the various performances across 1080p, 1440p and 4K screen resolutions for the GeForce RTX 3070 MSI Ventus 2X 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. In comparison to the game recommended requirements of the 1000 most demanding games played today this PC hardware can run 999.

The GeForce RTX 3070 MSI Ventus 2X 8GB graphics card is returning a good performance on Resident Evil 8 at 1080p of 78 frames per second at Ultra graphics settings. Another popular title that is good to benchmark graphics cards against is Battlefield 2042 which we saw got good frame rates of 63 FPS. A third game we can look at on Ultra at 1080p is the popular Star Citizen, which is predicted to get 116 FPS under tests.

One of the growing popular screen resolutions for PC gaming is the wider 1440p. So we wanted to see how well the GeForce RTX 3070 MSI Ventus 2X 8GB performed at 1440p by taking a look at some of the current popular games. First we looked at Resident Evil 8 and saw it deliver reasonable frames per second across the following graphics settings - Low: 157 FPS, Medium: 124 FPS, High: 83 FPS and Ultra: 59 FPS. We then checked the performance on Battlefield 2042 to see if that runs well. It was reasonable with a 48 FPS at Ultra 1440p. Getting popular modern games to run at 1440p on the GeForce RTX 3070 MSI Ventus 2X 8GB is more than capable at running this screen resolution. 1440p Ultra across almost all modern games is going to be fairly standard with this GPU. We would consider moving this hardware up to 4K screen resolutions for PC gaming today.

How many years will the GeForce RTX 3070 MSI Ventus 2X 8GB graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the GeForce RTX 3070 MSI Ventus 2X 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 RTX 3070 MSI Ventus 2X 8GB? There are no graphics cards on the current market that would provide a big enough increase in performance to warrant upgrading the GeForce RTX 3070 MSI Ventus 2X 8GB.