20 Feb 2021 - Graphics card reviewed

The GeForce GTX 980M 8GB SLI will blast beyond the majority of games requirements at 1080p, so crank up your screen resolution to 1440p or 4K and let the beautiful AAA game visuals wash over you. This is how gaming is meant to be played but you are likely to have to pay top dollar for the GeForce GTX 980M 8GB SLI privilege. But if you can get this graphics solution, then its happy gaming. This card meets game requirements up to DirectX 12.

What FPS performance can the GeForce GTX 980M 8GB SLI get on latest AAA 2021 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. When considering how well this graphics card can run the 1000 most demanding games available today it can best 807 of the games’ recommended graphics requirements.

The GeForce GTX 980M 8GB SLI graphics card is returning a reasonable performance on Hitman 3 at 1080p of 49 frames per second at Ultra graphics settings. Another popular title that is good to benchmark graphics cards against is Valheim which we saw got good frame rates of 64 FPS. A third game we can look at on Ultra at 1080p is the popular Far Cry 6, which is predicted to get 38 FPS under tests.

With PC gamers looking for larger screen sizes like 1440p we tested the GeForce GTX 980M 8GB SLI by playing Hitman 3 which yielded a playable performance. Its FPS results for the graphics settings are as follows - L: 99FPS, M: 78FPS, H: 52FPS, U: 37FPS. Another popular game we tested with this card was Valheim and that was reasonable. This graphics card delivered 48 FPS at Ultra 1440p. Another popular title was Far Cry 6 which is predicted to get playable results with a 29FPS on Ultra 1440p. Running games at 1440p with a GeForce GTX 980M 8GB SLI is ok at playing most games but might need to have the graphics settings lowered to medium preset in some cases.

How many years will the GeForce GTX 980M 8GB SLI graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the GeForce GTX 980M 8GB SLI in your PC? No graphics card upgrade required for 2 to 3 years of meeting top end game system requirements

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the GeForce GTX 980M 8GB SLI? A great upgrade graphics card would be a 20 Series GeForce RTX 2080 Mobile, which has 25% better performance and can run 981 of the top 1000 demanding game requirements today.