22 May 2020 - Graphics card reviewed

Gamers upgrading will be considering the GeForce GTX 980 Leadtek WinFast 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 Leadtek WinFast 4GB Edition is capable of DirectX 12 gaming requirements.

Game performance for the GeForce GTX 980 Leadtek WinFast 4GB Edition where we look at the bigger games played in 2020. Looking closely at the graphics card frame rate performance on Ultra graphics settings at 1080p, 1440p and 4K screen resolutions. The GeForce GTX 980 Leadtek WinFast 4GB Edition can run the recommended graphics system requirements for 698 games today, of the top 1000 most demanding.

Now onto the frame rates achieved at 1080p. We are seeing Doom Eternal getting 50 FPS with the GeForce GTX 980 Leadtek WinFast 4GB Edition, Grand Theft Auto VI predicted to get 17 FPS and Mafia 2: Definitive Edition getting 50 frames per second. All run on Ultra at 1920x1080 screen res.

People are turning their increasingly more powerful graphics cards to the popular 1440p screen size so we tested the GeForce GTX 980 Leadtek WinFast 4GB Edition to see how it performs on 1440p. First off we have looked at Doom Eternal where it was playable. The frame rates it scored for the game presets were - Low: 100 FPS, Medium: 79 FPS, High: 53 FPS and Ultra: 38 FPS. We added Grand Theft Auto VI to our research and predict it will be weak with a 13 FPS at Ultra 1440p. And then tested Mafia 2: Definitive Edition which got 38 FPS at Ultra 1440p. Looking at a few of these 1440p results for the GeForce GTX 980 Leadtek WinFast 4GB Edition we get the impression that it is a perfectly suitable selection of hardware for theis larger screen size. If a game at 1440p struggles a bit or experiences a frame drop then you can tweak settings in game to help get it stable. This might mean lowering it to medium or low in some specific options.

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

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the GeForce GTX 980 Leadtek WinFast 4GB Edition? A great upgrade graphics card would be a 16 Series GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 6GB, which has 28% better performance and can run 866 of the top 1000 demanding game requirements today. 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 35% better and can run 948 of today’s 1000 most demanding PC games.