22 May 2020 - 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 2020. 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. 866 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 running Mafia 2: Definitive Edition and delivering good performances on 1080p Ultra, getting 64 frames per second. Comparing this to Valorant which is predicted to get strong results, where it averages 693 FPS. Another popular game we looked at is Doom Eternal, which is running at 64 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 looked at Mafia 2: Definitive Edition where it was reasonable. The frame rates it scored for the game presets were - Low: 129 FPS, Medium: 102 FPS, High: 68 FPS and Ultra: 49 FPS. We added Valorant to our research and predict it will be strong with a 528 FPS at Ultra 1440p. And then tested Doom Eternal which got 49 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 988 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 989 games from the most demanding games today.