10 Aug 2021 - Graphics card reviewed

Gamers upgrading will be considering the GeForce GTX 980 Ti Inno3D iChill X4 Ultra 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 X4 Ultra 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. When considering how well this graphics card can run the 1000 most demanding games available today it can best 800 of the games’ recommended graphics requirements.

Now onto the frame rates achieved at 1080p. We are seeing FIFA 22 getting 111 FPS with the GeForce GTX 980 Ti Inno3D iChill X4 Ultra 6GB Edition, Dying Light 2 getting 45 FPS and Days Gone getting 64 frames per second. All run on Ultra at 1920x1080 screen res.

Moving screen sizes up to 1440p we ran FIFA 22 on the GeForce GTX 980 Ti Inno3D iChill X4 Ultra 6GB Edition to see that it got a strong set of frame rates. Here are the low to ultra results at 1440p - L: 224FPS, M: 176FPS, H: 119FPS, U: 85FPS. Another popular game to test at 1440p with this card was Dying Light 2 which seemed playable in performance netting an Ultra FPS of 34 FPS. Finally we then took a look at Days Gone where its Ultra 1440p Frame rates were reasonable at 49 FPS. Getting popular modern games to run at 1440p on the GeForce GTX 980 Ti Inno3D iChill X4 Ultra 6GB Edition is a strong choice at these screen resolutions. With Ultra graphics settings being regularly reached at 1440p gaming its easy to consider bumping up the screen size to 4K for this graphics card.

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? 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 X4 Ultra 6GB Edition.