22 May 2020 - Graphics card reviewed

Gamers upgrading will be considering the Radeon HD 7970 X2 Devil 13 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. Radeon HD 7970 X2 Devil 13 is capable of DirectX 11 gaming requirements.

Here is a quick game performance synopsis for the AAA games played in 2020. In particular we focus on how well the Radeon HD 7970 X2 Devil 13 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 445 of the games’ recommended graphics requirements.

Looking at some of the modern popular games people are playing today the Radeon HD 7970 X2 Devil 13 is running Mount and Blade 2: Bannerlord and delivering reasonable performances on 1080p Ultra, getting 48 frames per second. Comparing this to Cyberpunk 2077 which is predicted to get playable results, where it averages 25 FPS. Another popular game we looked at is Mafia: Definitive Edition, which is predicted to run at 44 frames per second.

Increasing resolution to 1440p is something a number of PC gamers are doing today. We tested the Radeon HD 7970 X2 Devil 13 at 1440p with Mount and Blade 2: Bannerlord, which got a playable set of FPS results. These were, Low: 97 FPS, Medium: 76 FPS, High: 51 FPS and Ultra: 37 FPS. We then checked out Cyberpunk 2077 which we predict would have a set of graphics results as followed, L: 50FPS, M: 40FPS, H: 27FPS, U: 19FPS. And another popular game was Mafia: Definitive Edition with predictions of L: 89FPS, M: 70FPS, H: 47FPS, U: 34FPS at 1440p. Looking at a few of these 1440p results for the Radeon HD 7970 X2 Devil 13 we get the impression that it is a suitable graphics card for this larger screen res. In some cases we might expect some graphics option tweaks down from Ultra to High to help improve FPS stability when gaming at 1440p.

How many years will the Radeon HD 7970 X2 Devil 13 graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the Radeon HD 7970 X2 Devil 13 in your PC? Our current calculations suggest a graphics card upgrade will be required in around 12-18 months

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the Radeon HD 7970 X2 Devil 13? A good upgrade choice for this graphics card today would be the 16 Series GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 6GB. For comparison of the 1000 most demanding games around today this suggested upgrade is 40% better and can meet 866 of their recommended requirements. Alternatively upgrading this graphics card would have us consider the R-500 Series Radeon RX Vega 56 8GB which is 47% more powerful. This upgrade choice can also run 948 games from the most demanding games today.