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Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 Ti PNY XLR8 OC 6GB Edition

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How well can the GeForce GTX 980 Ti PNY XLR8 OC 6GB Edition run games
Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 Ti PNY XLR8 OC 6GB Edition
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 2023. 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 800 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.
FPS System Benchmark
90 FPS
High
The GeForce GTX 980 Ti PNY XLR8 OC 6GB Edition was released on 07 Jul 2015
Nvidia PC game performance check GeForce GTX 980 Ti PNY XLR8 OC 6GB Edition
GPU
Architecture
Maxwell GM200-310-A1
Process
28nm
TMUs
176
Texture Rate
223 GTexel/s
ROPs
96
Pixel Rate
122 GPixel/s
Shader Processing Units
(CUDA Cores)
Ray Tracing
Tensor Cores
Release Price
Compatibility
Direct X
DX 12.1
Shader
5.0
Open GL
4.5
Resolution (WxH)
5120 x 3200
Notebook GPU
SLI/Crossfire
Dedicated
Integrated
Memory
Memory
6144MB
Memory Speed
1753MHz
Memory Bus
384bit
Memory Type
GDDR5
Memory Bandwidth
336.6GB/sec
L2 Cache
3072
Display Connectors
VGA Connection
DVI Connection
1
HDMI Connection
1
DisplayPort Connection
3
Clock Speeds
Core Speed
1165 MHz
Boost Clock
1266 MHz
Power
Max Power
250 Watts
PSU
600 Watt & 42 Amps
Power Connector
2x 8-pin
Recommended Hardware
Best RAM Match
16 GB
Best Resolution
2560 x 1600
GPU Upgrade
GD Official
GD RATING
80
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GeForce GTX 980 Ti PNY XLR8 OC 6GB Edition Game Requirement Analysis

Overview
GeForce GTX 980 Ti PNY XLR8 OC 6GB Edition is a Special Edition of NVIDIA's Enthusiast GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB, created by PNY.

Overclock: Central Unit
The Central Unit now runs at 1165MHz, instead of 1000MHz and goes up to 1266MHz, in Turbo Mode.

Overclock: Memory Clock
None.

Frame Buffer
Untouched.


Cooling Solution
Triple Fan Cooling Solution.

Performance
Benchmarks Indicate a 10% Performance Boost over the Reference GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB.

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