18 Apr 2021 - 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 2021. 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 760 of the games’ recommended graphics requirements.

The 1080p FPS on Ultra for the GeForce GTX 980 Ti EVGA 6GB Edition shows us that Total War: Rome Remastered is predicted to get a strong result of 328 FPS, and then we are seeing Outriders returning a playable 44 FPS while another game on our list is the Far Cry 6 which is predicted to get 32 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 Outriders where it was playable. The frame rates it scored for the game presets were - Low: 89 FPS, Medium: 70 FPS, High: 47 FPS and Ultra: 34 FPS. We added Far Cry 6 to our research and predict it will be weak with a 24 FPS at Ultra 1440p. And then researched Total War: Rome Remastered leading us to predict 250 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 929 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 957 games from the most demanding games today.