10 Aug 2021 - Graphics card reviewed

While some games have more powerful requirements than this GPU, the GeForce GTX 980 Galax HOF 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 Galax HOF 4GB Edition is capable of DirectX 12 gaming requirements.

This PC hardware performance game review for the GeForce GTX 980 Galax HOF 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 card runs recommended graphics requirements of 739 games from the top 1000 most demanding games being played today.

A GeForce GTX 980 Galax HOF 4GB Edition card at 1080p is predicted to see a playable frame rate when running Grand Theft Auto VI on Ultra - 36 FPS. Lets look at the performance its getting on Dying Light 2 which is 36 FPS. To add a bit more variety lets see how the popular Far Cry 6 performs on this hardware, which gets a playable 35 FPS.

Next up we increase screen res tests to accommodate the growing in popularity 1440p screen size. So we researched the upcoming Grand Theft Auto VI to predict how the GeForce GTX 980 Galax HOF 4GB Edition would deal with it. Our research revealed a playable series of FPS results across these graphics presets - Low: 72 FPS, Medium: 57 FPS, High: 38 FPS and Ultra: 27 FPS. Next we looked at Dying Light 2 which was playable with a 27 FPS at Ultra 1440p. And finally looked at Far Cry 6 that got an Ultra 1440p FPS of 26. In summary we feel the GeForce GTX 980 Galax HOF 4GB Edition running at 1440p 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 Galax HOF 4GB Edition graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the GeForce GTX 980 Galax HOF 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 Galax HOF 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 Galax HOF 4GB Edition.