2 Aug 2020 - Graphics card reviewed

Gamers upgrading will be considering the GeForce GTX 780 Ti HerculeZ X3 Ultra 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.

What FPS performance can the GeForce GTX 780 Ti HerculeZ X3 Ultra Edition get on latest AAA 2020 games? In particular our game review looks at the FPS achieved running on Ultra graphics settings on the 1080p screen resolution as well as 1440p and 4K. In terms of performance against the most demanding games today this graphics card can play 663 of the 1000 most demanding PC games beating their recommended requirements.

First we looked at 1080p resolution for the GeForce GTX 780 Ti HerculeZ X3 Ultra Edition performance to explore what sort of benchmarks it would achieve on the popular title Grounded and saw it deliver reasonable frames per second across the following graphics settings - Low: 129 FPS, Medium: 102 FPS, High: 69 FPS and Ultra: 49 FPS. We proceeded to look at Horizon: Zero Dawn to see how that compared and saw that it returned a reasonable 49 FPS at Ultra 1080p.

One of the growing popular screen resolutions for PC gaming is the wider 1440p. So we wanted to see how well the GeForce GTX 780 Ti HerculeZ X3 Ultra Edition performed at 1440p by taking a look at some of the current popular games. First we looked at Grounded and saw it deliver playable frames per second across the following graphics settings - Low: 99 FPS, Medium: 78 FPS, High: 52 FPS and Ultra: 37 FPS. We then checked the performance on Horizon: Zero Dawn to see if that runs well. It was playable with a 37 FPS at Ultra 1440p. After a look at the popular games running at 1440p with the GeForce GTX 780 Ti HerculeZ X3 Ultra Edition, this is easily capable of pc gaming across these screen resolutions. Turn the game settings up to Ultra at 1440p. This GPU is also capable of running a solid FPS across a lot of games at 4K resolution as well.

How many years will the GeForce GTX 780 Ti HerculeZ X3 Ultra Edition graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the GeForce GTX 780 Ti HerculeZ X3 Ultra Edition in your PC? Upgrade time for this GPU is currently placed at 2 years

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the GeForce GTX 780 Ti HerculeZ X3 Ultra Edition? If you are thinking of upgrading this graphics card then we would currently suggest the 16 Series GeForce GTX 1660 Super 6GB. This PC hardware upgrade performs 27% better and can run 852 of today’s 1000 most demanding PC games. Alternatively upgrading this graphics card would have us consider the R-500 Series Radeon RX Vega 56 8GB which is 36% more powerful. This upgrade choice can also run 945 games from the most demanding games today.