14 Oct 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. 831 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 Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War with good performances on 1080p Ultra, getting 60 frames per second. Comparing this to Baldurs Gate 3 which is getting good results, where it averages 64 FPS. Another popular game we looked at is Grand Theft Auto VI, which is predicted to run at 46 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 Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War and predict it will be reasonable. The frame rates predicted for the game presets were - Low: 121 FPS, Medium: 95 FPS, High: 64 FPS and Ultra: 46 FPS. We added Baldurs Gate 3 to our tests and saw it was reasonable with a 49 FPS at Ultra 1440p. And then researched Grand Theft Auto VI leading us to predict 35 FPS at Ultra 1440p. 1440p GeForce GTX 980 Ti MSI Sea Hawk 6GB Edition PC gaming is a solid choice of hardware for increased screen resolution gaming. We can see this graphics card is capable of delivering reliable frame rates at Ultra and certainly High graphics settings at 1440p.

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 984 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 986 games from the most demanding games today.