2 Aug 2020 - Graphics card reviewed

While some games have more powerful requirements than this GPU, the GeForce GTX 780M SLI is only really challenged by the most demanding games released today, but normally it is more than capable of running games with a stable frame rate at 1080p. DirectX 11 gaming system requirements will be met by this gpu.

This PC hardware performance game review for the GeForce GTX 780M SLI graphics card, when running 2020 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. When considering how well this graphics card can run the 1000 most demanding games available today it can best 182 of the games’ recommended graphics requirements.

Looking at some of the modern popular games people are playing today the GeForce GTX 780M SLI is running Horizon: Zero Dawn and delivering playable performances on 1080p Ultra, getting 40 frames per second. Comparing this to Microsoft Flight Simulator which is predicted to get reasonable results, where it averages 47 FPS. Another popular game we looked at is Assassins Creed: Valhalla, which is predicted to run at 15 frames per second.

As the PC gaming masses explore larger screen resolutions we decided to run some game checks at 1440p across a few popular games. We discovered the GeForce GTX 780M SLI ran Horizon: Zero Dawn to a playable performance level. Results across the graphics settings looked like this, Low: 81 FPS, Medium: 63 FPS, High: 43 FPS and Ultra: 31 FPS. Another game researched was Microsoft Flight Simulator with predictions of L: 95FPS, M: 75FPS, H: 50FPS, U: 36FPS. And then we researched potential graphics card performance on Assassins Creed: Valhalla, wih estimates revealing L: 23FPS, M: 19FPS, H: 17FPS, U: 11FPS at 1440p. In summary we feel the GeForce GTX 780M SLI running at 1440p is a perfectly suitable selection of hardware for theis larger screen size. If a game at 1440p struggles a bit or experiences a frame drop then you can tweak settings in game to help get it stable. This might mean lowering it to medium or low in some specific options.

How many years will the GeForce GTX 780M SLI graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the GeForce GTX 780M SLI in your PC? There is around 6-12 months of top end gaming left in this card, at which point its graphics card replacement time, assuming the GeForce GTX 780M SLI is part of your PC gaming machine.

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the GeForce GTX 780M SLI? A good choice when looking to upgrade the GeForce GTX 780M SLI would be the 20 Series GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q which meets 850 of the 1000 top game’s recommended system requirements and has 44% better performance.