10 Aug 2021 - Graphics card reviewed

Gamers upgrading will be considering the GeForce GTX 980 Ti Galax HOF WaterCooled 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 is a quick game performance synopsis for the AAA games played in 2023. In particular we focus on how well the GeForce GTX 980 Ti Galax HOF WaterCooled 6GB Edition runs at Ultra graphics settings and what frames per second it is getting at 1080p, 1440p and 4K monitor resolutions. This card runs recommended graphics requirements of 805 games from the top 1000 most demanding games being played today.

Now onto the frame rates achieved at 1080p. We are seeing Far Cry 6 getting 46 FPS with the GeForce GTX 980 Ti Galax HOF WaterCooled 6GB Edition, Star Citizen predicted to get 74 FPS and Back 4 Blood getting 74 frames per second. All run on Ultra at 1920x1080 screen res.

Increasing resolution to 1440p is something a number of PC gamers are doing today. We tested the GeForce GTX 980 Ti Galax HOF WaterCooled 6GB Edition at 1440p with Far Cry 6, which got a playable set of FPS results. These were, Low: 92 FPS, Medium: 72 FPS, High: 49 FPS and Ultra: 35 FPS. We then checked out Star Citizen which we predict would have a set of graphics results as followed, L: 149FPS, M: 117FPS, H: 79FPS, U: 56FPS. And another popular game was Back 4 Blood that returned L: 149FPS, M: 117FPS, H: 79FPS, U: 56FPS at 1440p. 1440p GeForce GTX 980 Ti Galax HOF WaterCooled 6GB Edition PC gaming is a solid choice of hardware for increased screen resolution gaming. We can see this graphics card is capable of delivering reliable frame rates at Ultra and certainly High graphics settings at 1440p.

How many years will the GeForce GTX 980 Ti Galax HOF WaterCooled 6GB Edition graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the GeForce GTX 980 Ti Galax HOF WaterCooled 6GB Edition 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 Ti Galax HOF WaterCooled 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 Galax HOF WaterCooled 6GB Edition.