20 Feb 2021 - Graphics card reviewed

Gamers upgrading will be considering the GeForce GTX 980 Palit Trio 4GB 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. This card meets game requirements up to DirectX 12.

Here we take a closer look at the various performances across 1080p, 1440p and 4K screen resolutions for the GeForce GTX 980 Palit Trio 4GB Edition. In particular this is looking at the Ultra graphics settings to see what sort of FPS this graphics card can get across some of the more popular games played in 2021. We look at 1000 of the most demanding games available today and this GPU is better than the recommended graphics requirement of more than 562 games in the list.

Now onto the frame rates achieved at 1080p. We are seeing Valheim getting 50 FPS with the GeForce GTX 980 Palit Trio 4GB Edition, Watch Dogs Legion getting 50 FPS and Cyberpunk 2077 getting 50 frames per second. All run on Ultra at 1920x1080 screen res.

With PC gamers looking for larger screen sizes like 1440p we tested the GeForce GTX 980 Palit Trio 4GB Edition by playing Valheim which yielded a playable performance. Its FPS results for the graphics settings are as follows - L: 100FPS, M: 79FPS, H: 53FPS, U: 38FPS. Another popular game we tested with this card was Watch Dogs Legion and that was playable. This graphics card delivered 38 FPS at Ultra 1440p. Another popular title was Cyberpunk 2077 which gets playable results with a 38FPS on Ultra 1440p. In summary we feel the GeForce GTX 980 Palit Trio 4GB Edition running at 1440p is a reasonable choice for most modern games at 1440p, but you may encounter some need to adjust graphics settings down from Ultra to High in some cases to improve gaming stability.

How many years will the GeForce GTX 980 Palit Trio 4GB Edition graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the GeForce GTX 980 Palit Trio 4GB Edition in your PC? There is still 2 years of top end gaming left in this GeForce GTX 980 Palit Trio 4GB Edition

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the GeForce GTX 980 Palit Trio 4GB Edition? Upgrading this graphics card would have us consider the 16 Series GeForce GTX 1660 Super 6GB which is 26% more powerful. This upgrade choice can also run 800 games from the most demanding games today. An alternative great upgrade graphics card would be a R-500 Series Radeon RX Vega 56 8GB, which has 35% better performance and can run 908 of the top 1000 demanding game requirements today.