10 Aug 2021 - Graphics card reviewed

Gamers upgrading will be considering the GeForce GTX 980 Ti MSI Gaming 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.

What FPS performance can the GeForce GTX 980 Ti MSI Gaming 6GB Edition get on latest AAA 2023 games? In particular our game review looks at the FPS achieved running on Ultra graphics settings on the 1080p screen resolution as well as 1440p and 4K. Of the 1000 most demanding recommended specs found in game requirements today, this gpu is more powerful than the graphics requirement of 800 games in todays list.

A GeForce GTX 980 Ti MSI Gaming 6GB Edition card at 1080p is seeing a reasonable frame rate when running Far Cry 6 on Ultra - 45 FPS. Lets look at the performance its getting on Back 4 Blood which is 73 FPS. To add a bit more variety lets see how the popular Star Citizen is predicted to perform on this hardware, which gets a good 73 FPS.

Moving screen sizes up to 1440p we ran Far Cry 6 on the GeForce GTX 980 Ti MSI Gaming 6GB Edition to see that it got a playable set of frame rates. Here are the low to ultra results at 1440p - L: 90FPS, M: 71FPS, H: 48FPS, U: 34FPS. Another popular game to test at 1440p with this card was Back 4 Blood which seemed reasonable in performance netting an Ultra FPS of 55 FPS. Finally we then took a look at Star Citizen where its predicted Ultra 1440p Frame rates were reasonable at 55 FPS. 1440p GeForce GTX 980 Ti MSI Gaming 6GB Edition PC gaming is certainly a good graphics cards for this increased screen resolutions. It can confidentantly get High or Ultra graphics settings across almost all current games at 1440p.

How many years will the GeForce GTX 980 Ti MSI Gaming 6GB Edition graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the GeForce GTX 980 Ti MSI Gaming 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 MSI Gaming 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 MSI Gaming 6GB Edition.