18 Apr 2021 - 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 2021. Of the 1000 most demanding recommended specs found in game requirements today, this gpu is more powerful than the graphics requirement of 720 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 Star Citizen and predict it will deliver reasonable frames per second across the following graphics settings - Low: 149 FPS, Medium: 118 FPS, High: 79 FPS and Ultra: 57 FPS. We proceeded to look at Outriders to see how that compared and saw that it returned a playable 39 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 Star Citizen and predict it will be playable. The frame rates predicted for the game presets were - Low: 114 FPS, Medium: 90 FPS, High: 60 FPS and Ultra: 43 FPS. We added Outriders to our tests and saw it was playable with a 29 FPS at Ultra 1440p. And then researched Total War: Rome Remastered leading us to predict 228 FPS at Ultra 1440p. 1440p GeForce GTX 980 Zotac AMP! Omega Core 4GB Edition PC gaming is a very good hardware option at these screen sizes. Ultra is easily achieved across almost all games at 1440p and we would suggest an increase of screen size up to 4K for this graphics card.

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? No graphics card upgrade required for around 2 years

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 796 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 906 of the top 1000 most demanding game requirements with 26% better performance as well.