2 Aug 2020 - Graphics card reviewed

While some games have more powerful requirements than this GPU, the GeForce GTX 780 MSI Lightning Edition 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.

We take a look at game performance achieved on this graphics card when running 2020 popular games. This short GeForce GTX 780 MSI Lightning Edition game hardware review looks at the graphics card frame rate performance on Ultra graphics settings at 1080p, 1440p and 4K screen resolutions. When considering how well this graphics card can run the 1000 most demanding games available today it can best 200 of the games’ recommended graphics requirements.

The 1080p FPS on Ultra for the GeForce GTX 780 MSI Lightning Edition shows us that Grounded is getting a playable result of 41 FPS, and then we are seeing Halo Infinite predicted to return a weak 23 FPS while another game on our list is the Marvel's Avengers which is predicted to get 23 frames per second at Ultra 1080p.

As the PC gaming masses explore larger screen resolutions we decided to run some game checks at 1440p across a few popular games. We predict the GeForce GTX 780 MSI Lightning Edition will run the upcoming game Halo Infinite to a weak performance level. Predictions across the graphics settings looked like this, Low: 45 FPS, Medium: 36 FPS, High: 24 FPS and Ultra: 17 FPS. Another game researched was Marvel's Avengers with predictions of L: 45FPS, M: 36FPS, H: 24FPS, U: 17FPS. And then we checked graphics card performance on Grounded, which returned L: 82FPS, M: 64FPS, H: 43FPS, U: 31FPS at 1440p. After a look at the popular games running at 1440p with the GeForce GTX 780 MSI Lightning Edition, this is likely in need of some graphical option tweaks when trying to play modern games.

How many years will the GeForce GTX 780 MSI Lightning Edition graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the GeForce GTX 780 MSI Lightning Edition in your PC? Its time to start researching your next graphics card upgrade as the GeForce GTX 780 MSI Lightning Edition is failing to meet modern day gaming system requirements. A gpu AAA lifespan of around 6-12 months.

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the GeForce GTX 780 MSI Lightning Edition? Upgrading this graphics card would have us consider the 16 Series GeForce GTX 1660 Super 6GB which is 49% more powerful. This upgrade choice can also run 853 games from the most demanding games today. Alternatively if you want an upgrade suggestion for the GeForce GTX 780 MSI Lightning Edition then a good choice would be R-500 Series Radeon RX 580 8GB as this is better than 790 of the top 1000 most demanding game requirements with 21% better performance as well.