10 Aug 2021 - Graphics card reviewed

While some games have more powerful requirements than this GPU, the GeForce GTX 980 EVGA FTW ACX 2.0 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.

All games with system requirements of DirectX 12 or lower are met by this card.

Game performance for the GeForce GTX 980 EVGA FTW ACX 2.0 4GB Edition where we look at the bigger games played in 2023. Looking closely 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 739 of the 1000 most demanding PC games beating their recommended requirements.

First we looked at 1080p resolution for the GeForce GTX 980 EVGA FTW ACX 2.0 4GB Edition performance to explore what sort of benchmarks it would achieve on the popular title Far Cry 6 and saw it deliver playable frames per second across the following graphics settings - Low: 88 FPS, Medium: 70 FPS, High: 47 FPS and Ultra: 34 FPS. We proceeded to look at Dying Light 2 to see how that compared and saw that it returned a playable 35 FPS at Ultra 1080p.

As the PC gaming masses explore larger screen resolutions we decided to run some game checks at 1440p across a few popular games. We discovered the GeForce GTX 980 EVGA FTW ACX 2.0 4GB Edition ran Far Cry 6 to a playable performance level. Results across the graphics settings looked like this, Low: 67 FPS, Medium: 53 FPS, High: 36 FPS and Ultra: 26 FPS. Another game tested was Dying Light 2, L: 70FPS, M: 56FPS, H: 37FPS, U: 27FPS. And then we researched potential graphics card performance on Grand Theft Auto VI, wih estimates revealing L: 70FPS, M: 56FPS, H: 37FPS, U: 27FPS at 1440p. Getting popular modern games to run at 1440p on the GeForce GTX 980 EVGA FTW ACX 2.0 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 EVGA FTW ACX 2.0 4GB Edition graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the GeForce GTX 980 EVGA FTW ACX 2.0 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 EVGA FTW ACX 2.0 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 EVGA FTW ACX 2.0 4GB Edition.