15 Sep 2020 - Graphics card reviewed

Gamers upgrading will be considering the GeForce GTX 980 Inno3D 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 Inno3D 4GB Edition is capable of DirectX 12 gaming requirements.

Lets look at the GeForce GTX 980 Inno3D 4GB Edition game performance guide for some of the biggest games played in 2020. In particular we will see how well this graphics card runs on Ultra settings on 1080p resolution as well as 1440p and 4K. This graphics hardware can run 636 of the 1000 most demanding PC games played today.

Looking at some of the modern popular games people are playing today the GeForce GTX 980 Inno3D 4GB Edition is predicted to run Grand Theft Auto VI with playable performances on 1080p Ultra, getting 29 frames per second. Comparing this to Cyberpunk 2077 which is predicted to get reasonable results, where it averages 50 FPS. Another popular game we looked at is Assassins Creed: Valhalla, which is predicted to run at 23 frames per second.

We move on to 1440p, and predict that Grand Theft Auto VI will deliver weak FPS results. Here are the graphic presets - Low: 58 FPS, Medium: 46 FPS, High: 31 FPS and Ultra: 22 FPS. Next we have Cyberpunk 2077 running on GeForce GTX 980 Inno3D 4GB Edition which is predicted to get L: 100FPS, M: 79FPS, H: 53FPS, U: 38FPS. And for performance contrast the popular Assassins Creed: Valhalla is predicted to get L: 36FPS, M: 31FPS, H: 26FPS, U: 18FPS at 1440p. Gaming at 1440p with the GeForce GTX 980 Inno3D 4GB Edition 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 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? If you are thinking of upgrading this graphics card then we would currently suggest the 16 Series GeForce GTX 1660 Super 6GB. This PC hardware upgrade performs 26% better and can run 832 of today’s 1000 most demanding PC games. Alternatively upgrading this graphics card would have us consider the R-500 Series Radeon RX Vega 56 8GB which is 35% more powerful. This upgrade choice can also run 934 games from the most demanding games today.