20 Feb 2021 - Graphics card reviewed

Gamers upgrading will be considering the GeForce GTX 780 Ti MSI Gaming 3GB Edition 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. Capable of running games with up to a DirectX 11 requirement.

How well will the GeForce GTX 780 Ti MSI Gaming 3GB Edition run 2021 games? We will take a look at the biggest releases and frames per second analysis on Ultra graphics settings. In terms of performance against the most demanding games today this graphics card can play 568 of the 1000 most demanding PC games beating their recommended requirements.

Looking at some of the modern popular games people are playing today the GeForce GTX 780 Ti MSI Gaming 3GB Edition is running World of Warcraft: Shadowlands and delivering playable performances on 1080p Ultra, getting 28 frames per second. Comparing this to Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War which is getting reasonable results, where it averages 56 FPS. Another popular game we looked at is Little Nightmares 2, which is running at 94 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 780 Ti MSI Gaming 3GB Edition ran World of Warcraft: Shadowlands to a weak performance level. Results across the graphics settings looked like this, Low: 56 FPS, Medium: 44 FPS, High: 30 FPS and Ultra: 21 FPS. Another game tested was Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, L: 113FPS, M: 89FPS, H: 60FPS, U: 43FPS. And then we checked graphics card performance on Little Nightmares 2, which returned L: 188FPS, M: 148FPS, H: 100FPS, U: 71FPS at 1440p. 1440p gaming on the GeForce GTX 780 Ti MSI Gaming 3GB Edition is one of the better graphics cards for gaming at this screen resolution. We will see 1440p Ultra and High settings across almost all current games.

How many years will the GeForce GTX 780 Ti MSI Gaming 3GB Edition graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the GeForce GTX 780 Ti MSI Gaming 3GB Edition in your PC? There is still 2 years of top end gaming left in this GeForce GTX 780 Ti MSI Gaming 3GB Edition

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the GeForce GTX 780 Ti MSI Gaming 3GB Edition? A great upgrade graphics card would be a 16 Series GeForce GTX 1660 Super 6GB, which has 26% better performance and can run 800 of the top 1000 demanding game requirements today. Alternatively we would suggest getting a R-500 Series Radeon RX Vega 56 8GB, as it can run 908 of the top 1000 demanding game requirements today with 34% increased graphics performance.