4 Jul 2020 - Graphics card reviewed

The GeForce GTX 980 Ti Inno3D iChill X4 Ultra 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 Inno3D iChill X4 Ultra 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 performance review on how capable the GeForce GTX 980 Ti Inno3D iChill X4 Ultra 6GB Edition is at running the more popular games of 2020. 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. We look at 1000 of the most demanding games available today and this GPU is better than the recommended graphics requirement of more than 859 games in the list.

With 1080p being the most common gaming resolution at the moment we explored how well the GeForce GTX 980 Ti Inno3D iChill X4 Ultra 6GB Edition can run Valorant at 1080p and saw it return strong frame rates at the following graphics settings - Low: 1811 FPS, Medium: 1427 FPS, High: 960 FPS and Ultra: 686 FPS. For performance contrast we can see that Hyper Scape is predicted to return a good 72 FPS at Ultra 1080p.

We move on to 1440p, and tested Valorant which delivered strong FPS results. Here are the graphic presets - Low: 1381 FPS, Medium: 1088 FPS, High: 733 FPS and Ultra: 523 FPS. Next we have Hyper Scape running on GeForce GTX 980 Ti Inno3D iChill X4 Ultra 6GB Edition which is predicted to get L: 145FPS, M: 114FPS, H: 77FPS, U: 55FPS. And for performance contrast the popular Grand Theft Auto VI is predicted to get L: 91FPS, M: 71FPS, H: 48FPS, U: 34FPS at 1440p. Running games at 1440p with a GeForce GTX 980 Ti Inno3D iChill X4 Ultra 6GB Edition 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 Inno3D iChill X4 Ultra 6GB Edition graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the GeForce GTX 980 Ti Inno3D iChill X4 Ultra 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 X4 Ultra 6GB Edition? A suitable upgrade choice for the GeForce GTX 980 Ti Inno3D iChill X4 Ultra 6GB Edition is the 20 Series GeForce RTX 2060 Super 8GB, which is 22% more powerful and can run 986 of the 1000 most demanding PC games beating their recommended requirements. Alternatively upgrading this graphics card would have us consider the RX 5000 Series Radeon RX 5700 XT 8GB which is 27% more powerful. This upgrade choice can also run 988 games from the most demanding games today.