28 Oct 2020 - Graphics card reviewed

The GeForce GTX 980 Ti Galax HOF LN2 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 Galax HOF LN2 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 quick game performance synopsis for the AAA games played in 2020. In particular we focus on how well the GeForce GTX 980 Ti Galax HOF LN2 6GB Edition runs at Ultra graphics settings and what frames per second it is getting at 1080p, 1440p and 4K monitor resolutions. When considering how well this graphics card can run the 1000 most demanding games available today it can best 831 of the games’ recommended graphics requirements.

A GeForce GTX 980 Ti Galax HOF LN2 6GB Edition card at 1080p is seeing a good frame rate when running Genshin Impact on Ultra - 66 FPS. Lets look at the performance its getting on Marvel's Avengers which is 66 FPS. To add a bit more variety lets see how the popular eFootball PES 2021 performs on this hardware, which gets a strong 124 FPS.

With PC gamers looking for larger screen sizes like 1440p we tested the GeForce GTX 980 Ti Galax HOF LN2 6GB Edition by playing Genshin Impact which yielded a reasonable performance. Its FPS results for the graphics settings are as follows - L: 132FPS, M: 104FPS, H: 70FPS, U: 50FPS. Another popular game we tested with this card was Marvel's Avengers and that was reasonable. This graphics card delivered 50 FPS at Ultra 1440p. Another popular title was eFootball PES 2021 which gets strong results with a 94FPS on Ultra 1440p. In summary we feel the GeForce GTX 980 Ti Galax HOF LN2 6GB Edition running at 1440p 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 Galax HOF LN2 6GB Edition graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the GeForce GTX 980 Ti Galax HOF LN2 6GB Edition in your PC? No graphics card upgrade required for 2 to 3 years of meeting top end game system requirements

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the GeForce GTX 980 Ti Galax HOF LN2 6GB Edition? A good upgrade choice for this graphics card today would be the 20 Series GeForce RTX 2070. For comparison of the 1000 most demanding games around today this suggested upgrade is 21% better and can meet 985 of their recommended requirements. An alternative great upgrade graphics card would be a RX 5000 Series Radeon RX 5700 XT 8GB, which has 24% better performance and can run 986 of the top 1000 demanding game requirements today.