14 Oct 2020 - Graphics card reviewed

Gamers upgrading will be considering the GeForce GTX 980 4GB 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.

What FPS performance can the GeForce GTX 980 4GB get on latest AAA 2020 games? In particular our game review looks at the FPS achieved running on Ultra graphics settings on the 1080p screen resolution as well as 1440p and 4K. Of the 1000 most demanding recommended specs found in game requirements today, this gpu is more powerful than the graphics requirement of 488 games in todays list.

First we looked at 1080p resolution for the GeForce GTX 980 4GB performance to explore what sort of benchmarks it would achieve on the popular title Watch Dogs Legion and predict it will deliver reasonable frames per second across the following graphics settings - Low: 128 FPS, Medium: 101 FPS, High: 68 FPS and Ultra: 49 FPS. We proceeded to look at Phasmophobia to see how that compared and saw that it returned a reasonable 55 FPS at Ultra 1080p.

People are turning their increasingly more powerful graphics cards to the popular 1440p screen size so we tested the GeForce GTX 980 4GB to see how it performs on 1440p. First off we have researched Watch Dogs Legion and predict it will be playable. The frame rates predicted for the game presets were - Low: 98 FPS, Medium: 77 FPS, High: 52 FPS and Ultra: 37 FPS. We added Phasmophobia to our tests and saw it was playable with a 42 FPS at Ultra 1440p. And then tested Microsoft Flight Simulator which got 42 FPS at Ultra 1440p. Getting popular modern games to run at 1440p on the GeForce GTX 980 4GB is certainly a good graphics cards for this increased screen resolutions. It can confidentantly get High or Ultra graphics settings across almost all current games at 1440p.

How many years will the GeForce GTX 980 4GB graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the GeForce GTX 980 4GB in your PC? This GeForce GTX 980 4GB card has 12 to 18 months of latest AAA game play left in it before upgrading should be considered

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the GeForce GTX 980 4GB? Upgrading this graphics card would have us consider the 20 Series GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q which is 23% more powerful. This upgrade choice can also run 820 games from the most demanding games today.