10 Aug 2021 - Graphics card reviewed

Gamers upgrading will be considering the GeForce GTX 980 Ti PNY XLR8 OC 6GB 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 Ti PNY XLR8 OC 6GB Edition is capable of DirectX 12 gaming requirements.

Game performance for the GeForce GTX 980 Ti PNY XLR8 OC 6GB Edition where we look at the bigger games played in 2022. Looking closely at the graphics card frame rate performance on Ultra graphics settings at 1080p, 1440p and 4K screen resolutions. When considering how well this graphics card can run the 1000 most demanding games available today it can best 807 of the games’ recommended graphics requirements.

The GeForce GTX 980 Ti PNY XLR8 OC 6GB Edition graphics card is returning a reasonable performance on Dying Light 2 at 1080p of 45 frames per second at Ultra graphics settings. Another popular title that is good to benchmark graphics cards against is Back 4 Blood which we saw got good frame rates of 72 FPS. A third game we can look at on Ultra at 1080p is the popular Far Cry 6, which was getting 44 FPS under tests.

Next up we increase screen res tests to accommodate the growing in popularity 1440p screen size. So we booted up Dying Light 2 to see how the GeForce GTX 980 Ti PNY XLR8 OC 6GB Edition dealt with it. It scored up a playable series of FPS results across these graphics presets - Low: 91 FPS, Medium: 71 FPS, High: 48 FPS and Ultra: 34 FPS. Next we looked at Back 4 Blood which was reasonable with a 55 FPS at Ultra 1440p. And finally looked at Far Cry 6 that got an Ultra 1440p FPS of 34. Looking at a few of these 1440p results for the GeForce GTX 980 Ti PNY XLR8 OC 6GB Edition we get the impression that it is certainly a good graphics cards for this increased screen resolutions. It can confidentantly get High or Ultra graphics settings across almost all current games at 1440p.

How many years will the GeForce GTX 980 Ti PNY XLR8 OC 6GB Edition graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the GeForce GTX 980 Ti PNY XLR8 OC 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 PNY XLR8 OC 6GB 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 Ti PNY XLR8 OC 6GB Edition.