28 Aug 2019 - Graphics card reviewed

A strong performing piece of hardware, GeForce GTX 980MX 8GB can still meet a lot of the game system requirements of modern 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 980MX 8GB. 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 2019. The GeForce GTX 980MX 8GB can run the recommended graphics system requirements for 468 games today, of the top 1000 most demanding.

A GeForce GTX 980MX 8GB card at 1080p is seeing a playable frame rate when running Ghost Recon Breakpoint on Ultra - 37 FPS. Lets look at the performance its getting on Microsoft Flight Simulator which is 19 FPS. To add a bit more variety lets see how the popular Borderlands 3 performs on this hardware, which gets a playable 37 FPS.

Moving screen sizes up to 1440p we ran Ghost Recon Breakpoint on the GeForce GTX 980MX 8GB to see that it got a playable set of frame rates. Here are the low to ultra results at 1440p - L: 75FPS, M: 59FPS, H: 40FPS, U: 28FPS. Other popular game to test at 1440p with this card was Microsoft Flight Simulator which seemed playable in performance netting an Ultra FPS of 14 FPS. And then took a look at Borderlands 3 where its Ultra 1440p Frame rates were playable at 28FPS. Looking at a few of these 1440p results for the GeForce GTX 980MX 8GB we get the impression that it is not ideal and its more advisable to run modern games at 1080p resolution. But if you really want to play games at 1440p then you will likely have to make some graphical adjustments to improve game FPS stability.

How many years will the GeForce GTX 980MX 8GB graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the GeForce GTX 980MX 8GB in your PC? This GeForce GTX 980MX 8GB card has 12 to 18 months of latest AAA game play left in it before upgrading should be considered

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the GeForce GTX 980MX 8GB? Upgrading this graphics card would have us consider the 20 Series GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile which is 84% more powerful. This upgrade choice can also run 984 games from the most demanding games today.