15 Sep 2020 - Graphics card reviewed

Gamers upgrading will be considering the GeForce GTX 980 Gigabyte XTREME 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. GeForce GTX 980 Gigabyte XTREME 4GB Edition is capable of DirectX 12 gaming requirements.

Game performance for the GeForce GTX 980 Gigabyte XTREME 4GB Edition where we look at the bigger games played in 2020. Looking closely at the graphics card frame rate performance on Ultra graphics settings at 1080p, 1440p and 4K screen resolutions. This graphics hardware can run 781 of the 1000 most demanding PC games played today.

The GeForce GTX 980 Gigabyte XTREME 4GB Edition graphics card is returning a strong performance on Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout at 1080p of 92 frames per second at Ultra graphics settings. Another popular title that is good to benchmark graphics cards against is Marvel's Avengers which we saw got reasonable frame rates of 54 FPS. A third game we can look at on Ultra at 1080p is the popular Microsoft Flight Simulator, which was getting 61 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 Gigabyte XTREME 4GB Edition ran Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout to a good performance level. Results across the graphics settings looked like this, Low: 184 FPS, Medium: 145 FPS, High: 98 FPS and Ultra: 70 FPS. Another game tested was Marvel's Avengers, L: 108FPS, M: 85FPS, H: 57FPS, U: 41FPS. And then we checked graphics card performance on Microsoft Flight Simulator, which returned L: 122FPS, M: 96FPS, H: 65FPS, U: 46FPS at 1440p. Getting popular modern games to run at 1440p on the GeForce GTX 980 Gigabyte XTREME 4GB Edition is a reliable performer at this larger resolution for modern games. The graphics card will be good to run 1440p on Ultra or High settings.

How many years will the GeForce GTX 980 Gigabyte XTREME 4GB Edition graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the GeForce GTX 980 Gigabyte XTREME 4GB Edition in your PC? 2-3 years of top end gaming before an upgrade

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the GeForce GTX 980 Gigabyte XTREME 4GB Edition? If you want an upgrade suggestion for the GeForce GTX 980 Gigabyte XTREME 4GB Edition then a good choice would be 20 Series GeForce RTX 2060 3GB GDDR5 as this is better than 837 of the top 1000 most demanding game requirements with 21% better performance as well. An alternative great upgrade graphics card would be a R-500 Series Radeon RX Vega 56 8GB, which has 25% better performance and can run 932 of the top 1000 demanding game requirements today.