14 Oct 2020 - Graphics card reviewed

Gamers upgrading will be considering the GeForce GTX 980 Zotac AMP! Omega Core 4GB Edition graphics card as a serious price to performance entry point. This card will meet and play most demanding AAA games and do so with good graphics setting as standard, and confidently pushing past the recommended game system requirements needed to run today’s games. This card meets game requirements up to DirectX 12.

Here we take a closer look at the various performances across 1080p, 1440p and 4K screen resolutions for the GeForce GTX 980 Zotac AMP! Omega Core 4GB Edition. In particular this is looking at the Ultra graphics settings to see what sort of FPS this graphics card can get across some of the more popular games played in 2020. Of the 1000 most demanding recommended specs found in game requirements today, this gpu is more powerful than the graphics requirement of 770 games in todays list.

First we looked at 1080p resolution for the GeForce GTX 980 Zotac AMP! Omega Core 4GB Edition performance to explore what sort of benchmarks it would achieve on the popular title Grand Theft Auto VI and predict it will deliver playable frames per second across the following graphics settings - Low: 88 FPS, Medium: 70 FPS, High: 47 FPS and Ultra: 34 FPS. We proceeded to look at Watch Dogs Legion to see how that compared and predict that it will return a reasonable 53 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 Zotac AMP! Omega Core 4GB 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: 67 FPS, Medium: 53 FPS, High: 36 FPS and Ultra: 26 FPS. We added Watch Dogs Legion to our research and predict it will be playable with a 40 FPS at Ultra 1440p. And then tested Microsoft Flight Simulator which got 46 FPS at Ultra 1440p. 1440p GeForce GTX 980 Zotac AMP! Omega Core 4GB Edition PC gaming is a reasonable performance fit for this resolution. Some of the more resource intensive games may well need a few graphical tweak to get the most out of the graphics card at this increased resolution.

How many years will the GeForce GTX 980 Zotac AMP! Omega Core 4GB Edition graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the GeForce GTX 980 Zotac AMP! Omega Core 4GB 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 Zotac AMP! Omega Core 4GB Edition? If you are thinking of upgrading this graphics card then we would currently suggest the 20 Series GeForce RTX 2060 3GB GDDR5. This PC hardware upgrade performs 22% better and can run 830 of today’s 1000 most demanding PC games. Alternatively if you want an upgrade suggestion for the GeForce GTX 980 Zotac AMP! Omega Core 4GB Edition then a good choice would be R-500 Series Radeon RX Vega 56 8GB as this is better than 926 of the top 1000 most demanding game requirements with 26% better performance as well.