27 Jul 2021 - Graphics card reviewed

The GeForce GTX 980 Ti MSI Sea Hawk 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 MSI Sea Hawk 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 quick game performance synopsis for the AAA games played in 2021. In particular we focus on how well the GeForce GTX 980 Ti MSI Sea Hawk 6GB Edition runs at Ultra graphics settings and what frames per second it is getting at 1080p, 1440p and 4K monitor resolutions. 768 games can be played by this graphics card of the 1000 most demanding games being played by PC gamers today.

Looking at some of the modern popular games people are playing today the GeForce GTX 980 Ti MSI Sea Hawk 6GB Edition is predicted to run Grand Theft Auto VI with reasonable performances on 1080p Ultra, getting 46 frames per second. Comparing this to FIFA 22 which is predicted to get strong results, where it averages 179 FPS. Another popular game we looked at is Battlefield 6, which is predicted to run at 59 frames per second.

People are turning their increasingly more powerful graphics cards to the popular 1440p screen size so we tested the GeForce GTX 980 Ti MSI Sea Hawk 6GB Edition to see how it performs on 1440p. First off we have researched Grand Theft Auto VI and predict it will be playable. The frame rates predicted for the game presets were - Low: 92 FPS, Medium: 72 FPS, High: 49 FPS and Ultra: 35 FPS. We added FIFA 22 to our research and predict it will be strong with a 137 FPS at Ultra 1440p. And then researched Battlefield 6 leading us to predict 45 FPS at Ultra 1440p. 1440p GeForce GTX 980 Ti MSI Sea Hawk 6GB Edition PC gaming is easily capable of pc gaming across these screen resolutions. Turn the game settings up to Ultra at 1440p. This GPU is also capable of running a solid FPS across a lot of games at 4K resolution as well.

How many years will the GeForce GTX 980 Ti MSI Sea Hawk 6GB Edition graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the GeForce GTX 980 Ti MSI Sea Hawk 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 MSI Sea Hawk 6GB Edition? Upgrading this graphics card would have us consider the 20 Series GeForce RTX 2060 Super 8GB which is 21% more powerful. This upgrade choice can also run 973 games from the most demanding games today. Alternatively upgrading this graphics card would have us consider the RX 5000 Series Radeon RX 5700 XT 8GB which is 26% more powerful. This upgrade choice can also run 978 games from the most demanding games today.