10 Aug 2021 - Graphics card reviewed

While some games have more powerful requirements than this GPU, the GeForce GTX 980 Ti MSI Armor 2X OC 6GB Edition is only really challenged by the most demanding games released today, but normally it is more than capable of running games with a stable frame rate at 1080p.

This card meets game requirements up to DirectX 12.

We take a look at game performance achieved on this graphics card when running 2023 popular games. This short GeForce GTX 980 Ti MSI Armor 2X OC 6GB Edition game hardware review looks at the graphics card frame rate performance on Ultra graphics settings at 1080p, 1440p and 4K screen resolutions. This card runs recommended graphics requirements of 794 games from the top 1000 most demanding games being played today.

The GeForce GTX 980 Ti MSI Armor 2X OC 6GB Edition graphics card is returning a strong performance on FIFA 22 at 1080p of 107 frames per second at Ultra graphics settings. Another popular title that is good to benchmark graphics cards against is Star Citizen which we predict will get good frame rates of 70 FPS. A third game we can look at on Ultra at 1080p is the popular Dying Light 2, which was getting 43 FPS under tests.

As the PC gaming masses explore larger screen resolutions we decided to run some game checks at 1440p across a few popular games. We discovered the GeForce GTX 980 Ti MSI Armor 2X OC 6GB Edition ran FIFA 22 to a strong performance level. Results across the graphics settings looked like this, Low: 214 FPS, Medium: 169 FPS, High: 114 FPS and Ultra: 81 FPS. Another game researched was Star Citizen with predictions of L: 140FPS, M: 110FPS, H: 74FPS, U: 53FPS. And then we checked graphics card performance on Dying Light 2, which returned L: 86FPS, M: 67FPS, H: 45FPS, U: 32FPS at 1440p. 1440p gaming on the GeForce GTX 980 Ti MSI Armor 2X OC 6GB Edition is probably one of the better high resolution gaming options on the graphics card market. You can consider pushing most games up to 4K with this gpu and Ultra 1440p is going to be a regular occurrence for gaming today.

How many years will the GeForce GTX 980 Ti MSI Armor 2X OC 6GB Edition graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the GeForce GTX 980 Ti MSI Armor 2X OC 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 Armor 2X OC 6GB Edition? There are no graphics cards on the current market that would provide a big enough increase in performance to warrant upgrading the GeForce GTX 980 Ti MSI Armor 2X OC 6GB Edition.