28 Oct 2020 - Graphics card reviewed

This computer hardware provides top end graphics. The GeForce GTX 980 Ti EVGA 6GB Edition 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 Ti EVGA 6GB Edition can also run 1440p pc system requirements. Capable of running games with up to a DirectX 12 requirement.

Game performance for the GeForce GTX 980 Ti EVGA 6GB Edition where we look at the bigger games played in 2020. Looking closely at the graphics card frame rate performance on Ultra graphics settings at 1080p, 1440p and 4K screen resolutions. When considering how well this graphics card can run the 1000 most demanding games available today it can best 795 of the games’ recommended graphics requirements.

The 1080p FPS on Ultra for the GeForce GTX 980 Ti EVGA 6GB Edition shows us that Microsoft Flight Simulator is getting a good result of 66 FPS, and then we are seeing eFootball PES 2021 returning a strong 109 FPS while another game on our list is the FIFA 21 which is getting 162 frames per second at Ultra 1080p.

People are turning their increasingly more powerful graphics cards to the popular 1440p screen size so we tested the GeForce GTX 980 Ti EVGA 6GB Edition to see how it performs on 1440p. First off we have looked at eFootball PES 2021 where it was strong. The frame rates it scored for the game presets were - Low: 219 FPS, Medium: 173 FPS, High: 116 FPS and Ultra: 83 FPS. We added FIFA 21 to our tests and saw it was strong with a 123 FPS at Ultra 1440p. And then tested Microsoft Flight Simulator which got 50 FPS at Ultra 1440p. Getting popular modern games to run at 1440p on the GeForce GTX 980 Ti EVGA 6GB Edition is more than capable at running this screen resolution. 1440p Ultra across almost all modern games is going to be fairly standard with this GPU. We would consider moving this hardware up to 4K screen resolutions for PC gaming today.

How many years will the GeForce GTX 980 Ti EVGA 6GB Edition graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the GeForce GTX 980 Ti EVGA 6GB Edition in your PC? This gpu has around 2+ years of running AAA recommended system requirements before any upgrades should be considered.

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the GeForce GTX 980 Ti EVGA 6GB Edition? A good upgrade choice for this graphics card today would be the 20 Series GeForce RTX 2060 6GB. For comparison of the 1000 most demanding games around today this suggested upgrade is 21% better and can meet 943 of their recommended requirements. Alternatively upgrading this graphics card would have us consider the R-500 Series Radeon RX Vega 64 8GB which is 25% more powerful. This upgrade choice can also run 966 games from the most demanding games today.