20 Feb 2021 - Graphics card reviewed

Gamers upgrading will be considering the GeForce GTX 980 Gigabyte G1 Gaming 4GB 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. This card meets game requirements up to DirectX 12.

This PC hardware performance game review for the GeForce GTX 980 Gigabyte G1 Gaming 4GB Edition graphics card, when running 2021 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. This card runs recommended graphics requirements of 739 games from the top 1000 most demanding games being played today.

Now onto the frame rates achieved at 1080p. We are seeing Assassins Creed: Valhalla getting 36 FPS with the GeForce GTX 980 Gigabyte G1 Gaming 4GB Edition, Valheim getting 60 FPS and Little Nightmares 2 getting 100 frames per second. All run on Ultra at 1920x1080 screen res.

One of the growing popular screen resolutions for PC gaming is the wider 1440p. So we wanted to see how well the GeForce GTX 980 Gigabyte G1 Gaming 4GB Edition performed at 1440p by taking a look at some of the current popular games. First we looked at Assassins Creed: Valhalla and saw it deliver playable frames per second across the following graphics settings - Low: 55 FPS, Medium: 47 FPS, High: 40 FPS and Ultra: 27 FPS. We then checked the performance on Valheim to see if that runs well. It was reasonable with a 46 FPS at Ultra 1440p. Gaming at 1440p with the GeForce GTX 980 Gigabyte G1 Gaming 4GB Edition is a reliable performer at this larger resolution for modern games. The graphics card will be good to run 1440p on Ultra or High settings.

How many years will the GeForce GTX 980 Gigabyte G1 Gaming 4GB Edition graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the GeForce GTX 980 Gigabyte G1 Gaming 4GB Edition in your PC? There is still 2 years of top end gaming left in this GeForce GTX 980 Gigabyte G1 Gaming 4GB Edition

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the GeForce GTX 980 Gigabyte G1 Gaming 4GB Edition? If you want an upgrade suggestion for the GeForce GTX 980 Gigabyte G1 Gaming 4GB Edition then a good choice would be 20 Series GeForce RTX 2060 3GB GDDR5 as this is better than 810 of the top 1000 most demanding game requirements with 22% better performance as well. Alternatively a suitable upgrade choice for the GeForce GTX 980 Gigabyte G1 Gaming 4GB Edition is the R-500 Series Radeon RX Vega 56 8GB, which is 26% more powerful and can run 910 of the 1000 most demanding PC games beating their recommended requirements.