10 Aug 2021 - Graphics card reviewed

While some games have more powerful requirements than this GPU, the GeForce GTX 980 Inno3D iChill HerculeZ X4 ABU 4GB Edition is only really challenged by the most demanding games released today, but normally it is more than capable of running games with a stable frame rate at 1080p.

GeForce GTX 980 Inno3D iChill HerculeZ X4 ABU 4GB Edition is capable of DirectX 12 gaming requirements.

This PC hardware performance game review for the GeForce GTX 980 Inno3D iChill HerculeZ X4 ABU 4GB Edition graphics card, when running 2023 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 graphics hardware can run 739 of the 1000 most demanding PC games played today.

First we looked at 1080p resolution for the GeForce GTX 980 Inno3D iChill HerculeZ X4 ABU 4GB Edition performance to explore what sort of benchmarks it would achieve on the popular title Back 4 Blood and saw it deliver good frames per second across the following graphics settings - Low: 161 FPS, Medium: 127 FPS, High: 85 FPS and Ultra: 61 FPS. We proceeded to look at Days Gone to see how that compared and saw that it returned a reasonable 54 FPS at Ultra 1080p.

With PC gamers looking for larger screen sizes like 1440p we tested the GeForce GTX 980 Inno3D iChill HerculeZ X4 ABU 4GB Edition by playing Back 4 Blood which yielded a reasonable performance. Its FPS results for the graphics settings are as follows - L: 123FPS, M: 97FPS, H: 65FPS, U: 47FPS. Another popular game we tested with this card was Days Gone and that was playable. This graphics card delivered 41 FPS at Ultra 1440p. Another popular title was Dying Light 2 which gets playable results with a 27FPS on Ultra 1440p. Looking at a few of these 1440p results for the GeForce GTX 980 Inno3D iChill HerculeZ X4 ABU 4GB Edition we get the impression that it is a reasonable performance fit for this resolution. Some of the more resource intensive games may well need a few graphical tweak to get the most out of the graphics card at this increased resolution.

How many years will the GeForce GTX 980 Inno3D iChill HerculeZ X4 ABU 4GB Edition graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the GeForce GTX 980 Inno3D iChill HerculeZ X4 ABU 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 Inno3D iChill HerculeZ X4 ABU 4GB Edition? There are no graphics cards on the current market that would provide a big enough increase in performance to warrant upgrading the GeForce GTX 980 Inno3D iChill HerculeZ X4 ABU 4GB Edition.