10 Aug 2021 - Graphics card reviewed

This graphics card offers upper mid level gaming performance. The GeForce GTX 980 Inno3D 4GB Edition GPU could struggle if it was to try and run the most demanding games available today, but it meets a lot of game system requirements found in today’s games.

GeForce GTX 980 Inno3D 4GB Edition is capable of DirectX 12 gaming requirements.

This PC hardware performance game review for the GeForce GTX 980 Inno3D 4GB Edition graphics card, when running 2022 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. In comparison to the game recommended requirements of the 1000 most demanding games played today this PC hardware can run 602.

A GeForce GTX 980 Inno3D 4GB Edition card at 1080p is seeing a playable frame rate when running Dying Light 2 on Ultra - 29 FPS. Lets look at the performance its getting on FIFA 22 which is 86 FPS. To add a bit more variety lets see how the popular Far Cry 6 performs on this hardware, which gets a playable 28 FPS.

Increasing resolution to 1440p is something a number of PC gamers are doing today. We tested the GeForce GTX 980 Inno3D 4GB Edition at 1440p with Dying Light 2, which got a weak set of FPS results. These were, Low: 58 FPS, Medium: 46 FPS, High: 31 FPS and Ultra: 22 FPS. We then checked out FIFA 22 which had a set of graphics results as followed, L: 173FPS, M: 136FPS, H: 92FPS, U: 66FPS. And another popular game was Far Cry 6 that returned L: 55FPS, M: 44FPS, H: 29FPS, U: 21FPS at 1440p. Gaming at 1440p with the GeForce GTX 980 Inno3D 4GB Edition is ok at playing most games but might need to have the graphics settings lowered to medium preset in some cases.

How many years will the GeForce GTX 980 Inno3D 4GB Edition graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the GeForce GTX 980 Inno3D 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 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 4GB Edition.