10 Aug 2021 - Graphics card reviewed

This computer hardware provides top end graphics. The GeForce GTX 980 MSI Gaming 4GB Edition SLI will easily meet recommended system requirements of games released today. This is a strong benchmarker on modern games and can often return excellent frame rates at high and ultra 1080p. But the GeForce GTX 980 MSI Gaming 4GB Edition SLI can also run 1440p pc system requirements.

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

This PC hardware performance game review for the GeForce GTX 980 MSI Gaming 4GB Edition SLI graphics card, when running 2023 more popular games, lets us see what type of FPS this card gets when playing at 1080p, 1440p and 4K screen resolutions and ultra settings. In terms of performance against the most demanding games today this graphics card can play 968 of the 1000 most demanding PC games beating their recommended requirements.

Running at 1080p this card gets a strong frame rate from Back 4 Blood with 86 FPS on Ultra. Then we take a look at Dying Light 2 which returns a reasonable 54 FPS. Another title that we looked at is the popular Resident Evil 8 which we saw getting a reasonable 59 FPS.

People are turning their increasingly more powerful graphics cards to the popular 1440p screen size so we tested the GeForce GTX 980 MSI Gaming 4GB Edition SLI to see how it performs on 1440p. First off we have looked at Back 4 Blood where it was good. The frame rates it scored for the game presets were - Low: 172 FPS, Medium: 136 FPS, High: 91 FPS and Ultra: 65 FPS. We added Dying Light 2 to our tests and saw it was playable with a 41 FPS at Ultra 1440p. And then tested Resident Evil 8 which got 45 FPS at Ultra 1440p. After a look at the popular games running at 1440p with the GeForce GTX 980 MSI Gaming 4GB Edition SLI, this is one of the better graphics cards for gaming at this screen resolution. We will see 1440p Ultra and High settings across almost all current games.

How many years will the GeForce GTX 980 MSI Gaming 4GB Edition SLI graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the GeForce GTX 980 MSI Gaming 4GB Edition SLI in your PC? This gpu has around 2+ years of running AAA recommended system requirements before any upgrades should be considered.

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the GeForce GTX 980 MSI Gaming 4GB Edition SLI? 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 MSI Gaming 4GB Edition SLI.