20 Feb 2021 - Graphics card reviewed

The GeForce GTX 980 Ti Gigabyte XTREME 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 Gigabyte XTREME 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 performance review on how capable the GeForce GTX 980 Ti Gigabyte XTREME 6GB Edition is at running the more popular games of 2021. Specifically looking at this PC hardware’s ability to get suitable frames per second to play on Ultra game settings and what FPS it might get on 1080p, 1440p and 4K screen res. In terms of performance against the most demanding games today this graphics card can play 813 of the 1000 most demanding PC games beating their recommended requirements.

A GeForce GTX 980 Ti Gigabyte XTREME 6GB Edition card at 1080p is seeing a good frame rate when running Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War on Ultra - 74 FPS. Lets look at the performance its getting on Valheim which is 66 FPS. To add a bit more variety lets see how the popular Watch Dogs Legion performs on this hardware, which gets a good 66 FPS.

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 Gigabyte XTREME 6GB Edition ran Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War to a reasonable performance level. Results across the graphics settings looked like this, Low: 149 FPS, Medium: 117 FPS, High: 79 FPS and Ultra: 56 FPS. Another game tested was Valheim, L: 132FPS, M: 104FPS, H: 70FPS, U: 50FPS. And then we checked graphics card performance on Watch Dogs Legion, which returned L: 132FPS, M: 104FPS, H: 70FPS, U: 50FPS at 1440p. Gaming at 1440p with the GeForce GTX 980 Ti Gigabyte XTREME 6GB Edition is a good choice for running modern games at Ultra in this larger screen resolution.

How many years will the GeForce GTX 980 Ti Gigabyte XTREME 6GB Edition graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the GeForce GTX 980 Ti Gigabyte XTREME 6GB Edition in your PC? No graphics card upgrade required for 2 to 3 years of meeting top end game system requirements

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the GeForce GTX 980 Ti Gigabyte XTREME 6GB Edition? A suitable upgrade choice for the GeForce GTX 980 Ti Gigabyte XTREME 6GB Edition is the 20 Series GeForce RTX 2070, which is 21% more powerful and can run 980 of the 1000 most demanding PC games beating their recommended requirements. Alternatively if you are thinking of upgrading this graphics card then we would currently suggest the RX 5000 Series Radeon RX 5700 XT 8GB. This PC hardware upgrade performs 24% better and can run 982 of today’s 1000 most demanding PC games.