10 Aug 2021 - Graphics card reviewed

While some games have more powerful requirements than this GPU, the GeForce GTX 980 Gigabyte XTREME 4GB Edition is only really challenged by the most demanding games released today, but normally it is more than capable of running games with a stable frame rate at 1080p.

GeForce GTX 980 Gigabyte XTREME 4GB Edition is capable of DirectX 12 gaming requirements.

Here is a performance review on how capable the GeForce GTX 980 Gigabyte XTREME 4GB Edition is at running the more popular games of 2022. 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. This graphics hardware can run 746 of the 1000 most demanding PC games played today.

A GeForce GTX 980 Gigabyte XTREME 4GB Edition card at 1080p is predicted to see a good frame rate when running Star Citizen on Ultra - 61 FPS. Lets look at the performance its getting on Back 4 Blood which is 61 FPS. To add a bit more variety lets see how the popular Battlefield 2042 performs on this hardware, which gets a weak 24 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 predict the GeForce GTX 980 Gigabyte XTREME 4GB Edition will run the upcoming game Star Citizen to a reasonable performance level. Predictions across the graphics settings looked like this, Low: 122 FPS, Medium: 96 FPS, High: 65 FPS and Ultra: 46 FPS. Another game tested was Back 4 Blood, L: 122FPS, M: 96FPS, H: 65FPS, U: 46FPS. And then we checked graphics card performance on Battlefield 2042, which returned L: 47FPS, M: 37FPS, H: 25FPS, U: 18FPS at 1440p. Gaming at 1440p with the GeForce GTX 980 Gigabyte XTREME 4GB Edition is not a bad choice for a larger screen size like this. Some games will struggle though, but with some careful graphic option adjustments in-game you can normally find a suitable visual experience with this GPU at 1440p.

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? There is still 2 years of top end gaming left in this GeForce GTX 980 Gigabyte XTREME 4GB Edition

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the GeForce GTX 980 Gigabyte XTREME 4GB Edition? There are no graphics cards on the current market that would provide a big enough increase in performance to warrant upgrading the GeForce GTX 980 Gigabyte XTREME 4GB Edition.