2 Aug 2020 - Graphics card reviewed

The GeForce GTX 980 Ti Zotac AMP! 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 Zotac AMP! 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.

How well will the GeForce GTX 980 Ti Zotac AMP! 6GB Edition run 2020 games? We will take a look at the biggest releases and frames per second analysis on Ultra graphics settings. This card runs recommended graphics requirements of 852 games from the top 1000 most demanding games being played today.

Running at 1080p this card is predicted to get a reasonable frame rate from Halo Infinite with 47 FPS on Ultra. Then we take a look at Valorant which returns a strong 661 FPS. Another title that we looked at is the popular Death Stranding which we saw getting a good 62 FPS.

Next up we increase screen res tests to accommodate the growing in popularity 1440p screen size. So we researched the upcoming Halo Infinite to predict how the GeForce GTX 980 Ti Zotac AMP! 6GB Edition would deal with it. Our research revealed a playable series of FPS results across these graphics presets - Low: 95 FPS, Medium: 75 FPS, High: 50 FPS and Ultra: 36 FPS. Next we looked at Valorant which was strong with a 504 FPS at Ultra 1440p. And finally looked at Death Stranding that got an Ultra 1440p FPS of 47. Running games at 1440p with a GeForce GTX 980 Ti Zotac AMP! 6GB Edition is easily capable of pc gaming across these screen resolutions. Turn the game settings up to Ultra at 1440p. This GPU is also capable of running a solid FPS across a lot of games at 4K resolution as well.

How many years will the GeForce GTX 980 Ti Zotac AMP! 6GB Edition graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the GeForce GTX 980 Ti Zotac AMP! 6GB Edition in your PC? 2-3 years of top end gaming before an upgrade

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the GeForce GTX 980 Ti Zotac AMP! 6GB Edition? If you are thinking of upgrading this graphics card then we would currently suggest the 20 Series GeForce RTX 2060 Super 8GB. This PC hardware upgrade performs 27% better and can run 985 of today’s 1000 most demanding PC games. Alternatively we would suggest getting a RX 5000 Series Radeon RX 5700 8GB, as it can run 977 of the top 1000 demanding game requirements today with 22% increased graphics performance.