20 Feb 2021 - Graphics card reviewed

The GeForce GTX 980 Ti EVGA Kingpin 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 EVGA Kingpin 6GB Edition privilege. But if you can get this graphics solution, then its happy gaming. This card meets game requirements up to DirectX 12.

Here is a performance review on how capable the GeForce GTX 980 Ti EVGA Kingpin 6GB Edition is at running the more popular games of 2021. Specifically looking at this PC hardware’s ability to get suitable frames per second to play on Ultra game settings and what FPS it might get on 1080p, 1440p and 4K screen res. This card runs recommended graphics requirements of 807 games from the top 1000 most demanding games being played today.

With 1080p being the most common gaming resolution at the moment we explored how well the GeForce GTX 980 Ti EVGA Kingpin 6GB Edition can run World of Warcraft: Shadowlands at 1080p and saw it return playable frame rates at the following graphics settings - Low: 116 FPS, Medium: 92 FPS, High: 62 FPS and Ultra: 44 FPS. For performance contrast we can see that Watch Dogs Legion returns a good 64 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 Ti EVGA Kingpin 6GB Edition to see how it performs on 1440p. First off we have looked at World of Warcraft: Shadowlands where it was playable. The frame rates it scored for the game presets were - Low: 89 FPS, Medium: 70 FPS, High: 47 FPS and Ultra: 34 FPS. We added Watch Dogs Legion to our tests and saw it was reasonable with a 49 FPS at Ultra 1440p. And then tested Little Nightmares 2 which got 92 FPS at Ultra 1440p. In summary we feel the GeForce GTX 980 Ti EVGA Kingpin 6GB Edition running at 1440p is a solid performer with higher resolution modern gaming. This graphics card can also bump up to 4K gaming regularly with the latest games still being capable of high or ultra graphics settings at this level.

How many years will the GeForce GTX 980 Ti EVGA Kingpin 6GB Edition graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the GeForce GTX 980 Ti EVGA Kingpin 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 EVGA Kingpin 6GB Edition? A good upgrade choice for this graphics card today would be the 20 Series GeForce RTX 2060 Super 8GB. For comparison of the 1000 most demanding games around today this suggested upgrade is 22% better and can meet 979 of their recommended requirements. Alternatively if you want an upgrade suggestion for the GeForce GTX 980 Ti EVGA Kingpin 6GB Edition then a good choice would be RX 5000 Series Radeon RX 5700 XT 8GB as this is better than 982 of the top 1000 most demanding game requirements with 27% better performance as well.