15 Sep 2020 - Graphics card reviewed

While some games have more powerful requirements than this GPU, the GeForce GTX 780 Asus Strix OC 6GB 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. All games with system requirements of DirectX 11 or lower are met by this card.

We take a look at game performance achieved on this graphics card when running 2020 popular games. This short GeForce GTX 780 Asus Strix OC 6GB Edition game hardware review looks at the graphics card frame rate performance on Ultra graphics settings at 1080p, 1440p and 4K screen resolutions. In terms of performance against the most demanding games today this graphics card can play 235 of the 1000 most demanding PC games beating their recommended requirements.

The GeForce GTX 780 Asus Strix OC 6GB Edition graphics card is returning a playable performance on Marvel's Avengers at 1080p of 43 frames per second at Ultra graphics settings. Another popular title that is good to benchmark graphics cards against is Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout which we saw got good frame rates of 74 FPS. A third game we can look at on Ultra at 1080p is the popular Mafia: Definitive Edition, which was getting 18 FPS under tests.

People are turning their increasingly more powerful graphics cards to the popular 1440p screen size so we tested the GeForce GTX 780 Asus Strix OC 6GB Edition to see how it performs on 1440p. First off we have looked at Marvel's Avengers where it was playable. The frame rates it scored for the game presets were - Low: 86 FPS, Medium: 67 FPS, High: 45 FPS and Ultra: 32 FPS. We added Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout to our tests and saw it was reasonable with a 56 FPS at Ultra 1440p. And then tested Mafia: Definitive Edition which got 13 FPS at Ultra 1440p. Looking at a few of these 1440p results for the GeForce GTX 780 Asus Strix OC 6GB Edition we get the impression that it is certainly a viable option for these higher gaming resolutions. Remember that if you suffer some 1440p FPS drops the you can usually tweak modern game graphics settings until you get a near High graphics setting experience with this Graphics card.

How many years will the GeForce GTX 780 Asus Strix OC 6GB Edition graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the GeForce GTX 780 Asus Strix OC 6GB Edition in your PC? This GeForce GTX 780 Asus Strix OC 6GB Edition card has 12 to 18 months of latest AAA game play left in it before upgrading should be considered

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the GeForce GTX 780 Asus Strix OC 6GB Edition? If you want an upgrade suggestion for the GeForce GTX 780 Asus Strix OC 6GB Edition then a good choice would be 16 Series GeForce GTX 1660 Super 6GB as this is better than 831 of the top 1000 most demanding game requirements with 44% better performance as well. Alternatively a good choice when looking to upgrade the GeForce GTX 780 Asus Strix OC 6GB Edition would be the R-500 Series Radeon RX 590 8GB which meets 784 of the 1000 top game’s recommended system requirements and has 25% better performance.