10 Aug 2021 - Graphics card reviewed

Gamers upgrading will be considering the GeForce GTX 980 Ti Inno3D iChill Black 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 we take a closer look at the various performances across 1080p, 1440p and 4K screen resolutions for the GeForce GTX 980 Ti Inno3D iChill Black 6GB Edition. In particular this is looking at the Ultra graphics settings to see what sort of FPS this graphics card can get across some of the more popular games played in 2023. 805 games can be played by this graphics card of the 1000 most demanding games being played by PC gamers today.

A GeForce GTX 980 Ti Inno3D iChill Black 6GB Edition card at 1080p is seeing a reasonable frame rate when running Resident Evil 8 on Ultra - 51 FPS. Lets look at the performance its getting on Days Gone which is 66 FPS. To add a bit more variety lets see how the popular Far Cry 6 performs on this hardware, which gets a reasonable 46 FPS.

One of the growing popular screen resolutions for PC gaming is the wider 1440p. So we wanted to see how well the GeForce GTX 980 Ti Inno3D iChill Black 6GB Edition performed at 1440p by taking a look at some of the current popular games. First we looked at Resident Evil 8 and saw it deliver playable frames per second across the following graphics settings - Low: 102 FPS, Medium: 80 FPS, High: 54 FPS and Ultra: 39 FPS. We then checked the performance on Days Gone to see if that runs well. It was reasonable with a 50 FPS at Ultra 1440p. Getting popular modern games to run at 1440p on the GeForce GTX 980 Ti Inno3D iChill Black 6GB Edition 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 Inno3D iChill Black 6GB Edition graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the GeForce GTX 980 Ti Inno3D iChill Black 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 Inno3D iChill Black 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 Inno3D iChill Black 6GB Edition.