10 Aug 2021 - Graphics card reviewed

This computer hardware provides top end graphics. The GeForce GTX 980 MSI Gaming 4GB Edition 3-Way SLI will easily meet recommended system requirements of games released today. This is a strong benchmarker on modern games and can often return excellent frame rates at high and ultra 1080p. But the GeForce GTX 980 MSI Gaming 4GB Edition 3-Way SLI can also run 1440p pc system requirements.

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

Here we take a closer look at the various performances across 1080p, 1440p and 4K screen resolutions for the GeForce GTX 980 MSI Gaming 4GB Edition 3-Way SLI. In particular this is looking at the Ultra graphics settings to see what sort of FPS this graphics card can get across some of the more popular games played in 2023. Of the 1000 most demanding recommended specs found in game requirements today, this gpu is more powerful than the graphics requirement of 996 games in todays list.

A GeForce GTX 980 MSI Gaming 4GB Edition 3-Way SLI card at 1080p is seeing a strong frame rate when running Days Gone on Ultra - 91 FPS. Lets look at the performance its getting on Resident Evil 8 which is 70 FPS. To add a bit more variety lets see how the popular Back 4 Blood performs on this hardware, which gets a strong 103 FPS.

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 MSI Gaming 4GB Edition 3-Way SLI ran Days Gone to a good performance level. Results across the graphics settings looked like this, Low: 182 FPS, Medium: 144 FPS, High: 97 FPS and Ultra: 69 FPS. Another game tested was Resident Evil 8, L: 140FPS, M: 110FPS, H: 74FPS, U: 53FPS. And then we checked graphics card performance on Back 4 Blood, which returned L: 206FPS, M: 163FPS, H: 109FPS, U: 78FPS at 1440p. 1440p GeForce GTX 980 MSI Gaming 4GB Edition 3-Way SLI PC gaming is a very good hardware option at these screen sizes. Ultra is easily achieved across almost all games at 1440p and we would suggest an increase of screen size up to 4K for this graphics card.

How many years will the GeForce GTX 980 MSI Gaming 4GB Edition 3-Way SLI graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the GeForce GTX 980 MSI Gaming 4GB Edition 3-Way SLI in your PC? 2-3 years of top end gaming before an upgrade

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the GeForce GTX 980 MSI Gaming 4GB Edition 3-Way SLI? 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 MSI Gaming 4GB Edition 3-Way SLI.