10 Aug 2021 - Graphics card reviewed

Gamers upgrading will be considering the GeForce GTX 980 Ti Zotac AMP! Extreme 6GB Edition graphics card as a serious price to performance entry point. This card will meet and play most demanding AAA games and do so with good graphics setting as standard, and confidently pushing past the recommended game system requirements needed to run today’s games.

Capable of running games with up to a DirectX 12 requirement.

Here is a performance review on how capable the GeForce GTX 980 Ti Zotac AMP! Extreme 6GB Edition is at running the more popular games of 2023. Specifically looking at this PC hardware’s ability to get suitable frames per second to play on Ultra game settings and what FPS it might get on 1080p, 1440p and 4K screen res. This graphics hardware can run 890 of the 1000 most demanding PC games played today.

With 1080p being the most common gaming resolution at the moment we explored how well the GeForce GTX 980 Ti Zotac AMP! Extreme 6GB Edition can run Dying Light 2 at 1080p and saw it return reasonable frame rates at the following graphics settings - Low: 124 FPS, Medium: 98 FPS, High: 66 FPS and Ultra: 47 FPS. For performance contrast we can see that Resident Evil 8 returns a reasonable 51 FPS at Ultra 1080p.

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 Zotac AMP! Extreme 6GB Edition ran Dying Light 2 to a playable performance level. Results across the graphics settings looked like this, Low: 95 FPS, Medium: 75 FPS, High: 50 FPS and Ultra: 36 FPS. Another game tested was Resident Evil 8, L: 103FPS, M: 81FPS, H: 54FPS, U: 39FPS. And then we checked graphics card performance on FIFA 22, which returned L: 232FPS, M: 182FPS, H: 123FPS, U: 88FPS at 1440p. After a look at the popular games running at 1440p with the GeForce GTX 980 Ti Zotac AMP! Extreme 6GB Edition, this is a very strong choice of graphics cards at higher resolution gaming. 4K gaming with this graphics card is certainly something that can be achieved across a number of the latest games and still achieve good graphics settings at those resolutions. Ultra 1440p is also a regular occurrence with this gpu.

How many years will the GeForce GTX 980 Ti Zotac AMP! Extreme 6GB Edition graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the GeForce GTX 980 Ti Zotac AMP! Extreme 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 Zotac AMP! Extreme 6GB Edition? 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 Ti Zotac AMP! Extreme 6GB Edition.