29 Sep 2020 - Graphics card reviewed

Gamers 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 2020 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. 782 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 Genshin Impact and saw it deliver reasonable frames per second across the following graphics settings - Low: 143 FPS, Medium: 112 FPS, High: 76 FPS and Ultra: 54 FPS. We proceeded to look at Microsoft Flight Simulator to see how that compared and saw that it returned a good 61 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 with Genshin Impact, which got a playable set of FPS results. These were, Low: 109 FPS, Medium: 86 FPS, High: 58 FPS and Ultra: 41 FPS. We then checked out Microsoft Flight Simulator which had a set of graphics results as followed, L: 123FPS, M: 97FPS, H: 65FPS, U: 47FPS. And another popular game was Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War with predictions of L: 86FPS, M: 67FPS, H: 45FPS, U: 32FPS at 1440p. In summary we feel the GeForce GTX 980 EVGA Hydro Copper 4GB Edition running at 1440p is a good choice of hardware for increased screen resolution gaming. We can see this graphics card is capable of delivering reliable frame rates at Ultra and certainly High graphics settings at 1440p.

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? 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 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 838 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 932 of today’s 1000 most demanding PC games.