9 Oct 2019 - Graphics card reviewed

This graphics card offers upper mid level gaming performance. The GeForce GTX 680 Gigabyte SO 2GB Edition GPU could struggle if it was to try and run the most demanding games available today, but it meets a lot of game system requirements found in today’s games. GeForce GTX 680 Gigabyte SO 2GB Edition is capable of DirectX 11 gaming requirements.

This PC hardware performance game review for the GeForce GTX 680 Gigabyte SO 2GB Edition graphics card, when running 2019 more popular games, lets us see what type of FPS this card gets when playing at 1080p, 1440p and 4K screen resolutions and ultra settings. In terms of performance against the most demanding games today this graphics card can play 400 of the 1000 most demanding PC games beating their recommended requirements.

Now onto the frame rates achieved at 1080p. We are seeing Red Dead Redemption 2 getting 27FPS with the GeForce GTX 680 Gigabyte SO 2GB Edition, Zombieland: Double Tap - Road Trip getting 36FPS and Ghost Recon Breakpoint getting 27frames per second. All run on Ultra at 1920x1080 screen res.

Next up we increase screen res tests to accommodate the growing in popularity 1440p screen size. So we booted up Red Dead Redemption 2 to see how the GeForce GTX 680 Gigabyte SO 2GB Edition dealt with it. It scored up a weak series of FPS results across these graphics presets - Low: 54 FPS, Medium: 43 FPS, High: 29 FPS and Ultra: 21 FPS. Next we looked at Zombieland: Double Tap - Road Trip which was playable with a 27 FPS at Ultra 1440p. And finally looked at Ghost Recon Breakpoint that got an Ultra 1440p FPS of 21. Getting popular modern games to run at 1440p on the GeForce GTX 680 Gigabyte SO 2GB Edition is in need of some graphics adjustments to get some stability, which means its not an ideal gaming resolution for this GPU.

How many years will the GeForce GTX 680 Gigabyte SO 2GB Edition graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the GeForce GTX 680 Gigabyte SO 2GB Edition 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 GeForce GTX 680 Gigabyte SO 2GB Edition? If you want an upgrade suggestion for the GeForce GTX 680 Gigabyte SO 2GB Edition then a good choice would be 16 Series GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 6GB as this is better than 921 of the top 1000 most demanding game requirements with 85% better performance as well. Alternatively a good upgrade choice for this graphics card today would be the RX 5000 Series Radeon RX 5500 4GB. For comparison of the 1000 most demanding games around today this suggested upgrade is 36% better and can meet 723 of their recommended requirements.