4 Apr 2021 - Graphics card reviewedGamers upgrading will be considering the GeForce GTX 980 EVGA Hydro Copper 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. GeForce GTX 980 EVGA Hydro Copper 4GB Edition is capable of DirectX 12 gaming requirements.
This PC hardware performance game review for the GeForce GTX 980 EVGA Hydro Copper 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. 733 games can be played by this graphics card of the 1000 most demanding games being played by PC gamers today.
First we looked at 1080p resolution for the GeForce GTX 980 EVGA Hydro Copper 4GB Edition performance to explore what sort of benchmarks it would achieve on the popular title Monster Hunter Rise and predict it will deliver good frames per second across the following graphics settings - Low: 157 FPS, Medium: 124 FPS, High: 83 FPS and Ultra: 60 FPS. We proceeded to look at Total War: Rome Remastered to see how that compared and predict that it will return a strong 305 FPS at Ultra 1080p.
Increasing resolution to 1440p is something a number of PC gamers are doing today. We tested the GeForce GTX 980 EVGA Hydro Copper 4GB Edition at 1440p and researched how Monster Hunter Rise might perform on it leading us to predict a reasonable set of FPS results. These were, Low: 120 FPS, Medium: 94 FPS, High: 64 FPS and Ultra: 45 FPS. We then checked out Total War: Rome Remastered which we predict would have a set of graphics results as followed, L: 613FPS, M: 483FPS, H: 325FPS, U: 232FPS. And another popular game was Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time that returned L: 123FPS, M: 97FPS, H: 65FPS, U: 47FPS at 1440p. In summary we feel the GeForce GTX 980 EVGA Hydro Copper 4GB Edition running at 1440p is probably one of the better high resolution gaming options on the graphics card market. You can consider pushing most games up to 4K with this gpu and Ultra 1440p is going to be a regular occurrence for gaming today.
How many years will the GeForce GTX 980 EVGA Hydro Copper 4GB Edition graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the GeForce GTX 980 EVGA Hydro Copper 4GB 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 980 EVGA Hydro Copper 4GB Edition? A good choice when looking to upgrade the GeForce GTX 980 EVGA Hydro Copper 4GB Edition would be the 20 Series
GeForce RTX 2060 3GB GDDR6 which meets 798 of the 1000 top game’s recommended system requirements and has 20% better performance. Alternatively if you are thinking of upgrading this graphics card then we would currently suggest the R-500 Series
Radeon RX Vega 56 8GB. This PC hardware upgrade performs 24% better and can run 906 of today’s 1000 most demanding PC games.