18 Apr 2021 - Graphics card reviewed

Gamers upgrading will be considering the GeForce GTX 980 PNY XLR8 Pro OC 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. All games with system requirements of DirectX 12 or lower are met by this card.

What FPS performance can the GeForce GTX 980 PNY XLR8 Pro OC 4GB Edition get on latest AAA 2021 games? In particular our game review looks at the FPS achieved running on Ultra graphics settings on the 1080p screen resolution as well as 1440p and 4K. The GeForce GTX 980 PNY XLR8 Pro OC 4GB Edition can run the recommended graphics system requirements for 720 games today, of the top 1000 most demanding.

The GeForce GTX 980 PNY XLR8 Pro OC 4GB Edition graphics card is returning a playable performance on Outriders at 1080p of 39 frames per second at Ultra graphics settings. Another popular title that is good to benchmark graphics cards against is Age of Empires IV which we predict will get reasonable frame rates of 53 FPS. A third game we can look at on Ultra at 1080p is the popular It Takes Two, which was getting 54 FPS under tests.

People are turning their increasingly more powerful graphics cards to the popular 1440p screen size so we tested the GeForce GTX 980 PNY XLR8 Pro OC 4GB Edition to see how it performs on 1440p. First off we have looked at Outriders where it was playable. The frame rates it scored for the game presets were - Low: 78 FPS, Medium: 61 FPS, High: 41 FPS and Ultra: 29 FPS. We added Age of Empires IV to our research and predict it will be playable with a 40 FPS at Ultra 1440p. And then tested It Takes Two which got 41 FPS at Ultra 1440p. 1440p GeForce GTX 980 PNY XLR8 Pro OC 4GB Edition PC gaming is a reasonable choice at this screen size. You can always tweak modern game graphics settings to help you get a better High graphics setting experience at 1440p.

How many years will the GeForce GTX 980 PNY XLR8 Pro OC 4GB Edition graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the GeForce GTX 980 PNY XLR8 Pro OC 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 PNY XLR8 Pro OC 4GB Edition? If you are thinking of upgrading this graphics card then we would currently suggest the 20 Series GeForce RTX 2060 3GB GDDR5. This PC hardware upgrade performs 22% better and can run 796 of today’s 1000 most demanding PC games. An alternative great upgrade graphics card would be a R-500 Series Radeon RX Vega 56 8GB, which has 26% better performance and can run 906 of the top 1000 demanding game requirements today.