10 Aug 2021 - Graphics card reviewed

Gamers upgrading will be considering the GeForce GTX 980 Ti Asus DirectCU III OC Strix 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.

We take a look at game performance achieved on this graphics card when running 2023 popular games. This short GeForce GTX 980 Ti Asus DirectCU III OC Strix Gaming 6GB Edition game hardware review looks at the graphics card frame rate performance on Ultra graphics settings at 1080p, 1440p and 4K screen resolutions. 805 games can be played by this graphics card of the 1000 most demanding games being played by PC gamers today.

Now onto the frame rates achieved at 1080p. We are seeing FIFA 22 getting 114 FPS with the GeForce GTX 980 Ti Asus DirectCU III OC Strix Gaming 6GB Edition, Forza Horizon 5 getting 51 FPS and Star Citizen predicted to get 74 frames per second. All run on Ultra at 1920x1080 screen res.

We move on to 1440p, and tested FIFA 22 which delivered strong FPS results. Here are the graphic presets - Low: 230 FPS, Medium: 181 FPS, High: 122 FPS and Ultra: 87 FPS. Next we have Forza Horizon 5 running on GeForce GTX 980 Ti Asus DirectCU III OC Strix Gaming 6GB Edition which gets L: 102FPS, M: 80FPS, H: 54FPS, U: 39FPS. And for performance contrast the popular Star Citizen is predicted to get L: 149FPS, M: 117FPS, H: 79FPS, U: 56FPS at 1440p. In summary we feel the GeForce GTX 980 Ti Asus DirectCU III OC Strix Gaming 6GB Edition running at 1440p is easily capable of pc gaming across these screen resolutions. Turn the game settings up to Ultra at 1440p. This GPU is also capable of running a solid FPS across a lot of games at 4K resolution as well.

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