4 Jul 2020 - Graphics card reviewed

The GeForce GTX 980 Ti EVGA Superclocked 6GB Edition will blast beyond the majority of games requirements at 1080p, so crank up your screen resolution to 1440p or 4K and let the beautiful AAA game visuals wash over you. This is how gaming is meant to be played but you are likely to have to pay top dollar for the GeForce GTX 980 Ti EVGA Superclocked 6GB Edition privilege. But if you can get this graphics solution, then its happy gaming. Capable of running games with up to a DirectX 12 requirement.

Here is a quick game performance synopsis for the AAA games played in 2020. In particular we focus on how well the GeForce GTX 980 Ti EVGA Superclocked 6GB Edition runs at Ultra graphics settings and what frames per second it is getting at 1080p, 1440p and 4K monitor resolutions. 856 games can be played by this graphics card of the 1000 most demanding games being played by PC gamers today.

Looking at some of the modern popular games people are playing today the GeForce GTX 980 Ti EVGA Superclocked 6GB Edition is running Death Stranding and delivering good performances on 1080p Ultra, getting 62 frames per second. Comparing this to Assassins Creed: Valhalla which is predicted to get playable results, where it averages 32 FPS. Another popular game we looked at is Call of Duty Warzone, which is running at 58 frames per second.

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 Ti EVGA Superclocked 6GB Edition ran Death Stranding to a reasonable performance level. Results across the graphics settings looked like this, Low: 125 FPS, Medium: 98 FPS, High: 66 FPS and Ultra: 47 FPS. Another game researched was Assassins Creed: Valhalla with predictions of L: 49FPS, M: 42FPS, H: 36FPS, U: 25FPS. And then we checked graphics card performance on Call of Duty Warzone, which returned L: 117FPS, M: 92FPS, H: 62FPS, U: 44FPS at 1440p. Running games at 1440p with a GeForce GTX 980 Ti EVGA Superclocked 6GB Edition is a reasonable choice for most modern games at 1440p, but you may encounter some need to adjust graphics settings down from Ultra to High in some cases to improve gaming stability.

How many years will the GeForce GTX 980 Ti EVGA Superclocked 6GB Edition graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the GeForce GTX 980 Ti EVGA Superclocked 6GB Edition in your PC? No graphics card upgrade required for 2 to 3 years of meeting top end game system requirements

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the GeForce GTX 980 Ti EVGA Superclocked 6GB Edition? A good choice when looking to upgrade the GeForce GTX 980 Ti EVGA Superclocked 6GB Edition would be the 20 Series GeForce RTX 2060 Super 8GB which meets 988 of the 1000 top game’s recommended system requirements and has 26% better performance. Alternatively if you are thinking of upgrading this graphics card then we would currently suggest the RX 5000 Series Radeon RX 5700 8GB. This PC hardware upgrade performs 21% better and can run 980 of today’s 1000 most demanding PC games.