10 Aug 2021 - Graphics card reviewed

This computer hardware provides top end graphics. The GeForce GTX 1080 EVGA Founders 8GB Edition will easily meet recommended system requirements of games released today. This is a strong benchmarker on modern games and can often return excellent frame rates at high and ultra 1080p. But the GeForce GTX 1080 EVGA Founders 8GB Edition can also run 1440p pc system requirements.

GeForce GTX 1080 EVGA Founders 8GB Edition is capable of DirectX 12 gaming requirements.

What FPS performance can the GeForce GTX 1080 EVGA Founders 8GB Edition get on latest AAA 2023 games? In particular our game review looks at the FPS achieved running on Ultra graphics settings on the 1080p screen resolution as well as 1440p and 4K. When considering how well this graphics card can run the 1000 most demanding games available today it can best 936 of the games’ recommended graphics requirements.

The GeForce GTX 1080 EVGA Founders 8GB Edition graphics card is predicted to return a strong performance on Star Citizen at 1080p of 81 frames per second at Ultra graphics settings. Another popular title that is good to benchmark graphics cards against is Dying Light 2 which we saw got reasonable frame rates of 51 FPS. A third game we can look at on Ultra at 1080p is the popular Far Cry 6, which was getting 50 FPS under tests.

Next up we increase screen res tests to accommodate the growing in popularity 1440p screen size. So we researched the upcoming Star Citizen to predict how the GeForce GTX 1080 EVGA Founders 8GB Edition would deal with it. Our research revealed a good series of FPS results across these graphics presets - Low: 163 FPS, Medium: 129 FPS, High: 86 FPS and Ultra: 62 FPS. Next we looked at Dying Light 2 which was playable with a 39 FPS at Ultra 1440p. And finally looked at Far Cry 6 that got an Ultra 1440p FPS of 38. Getting popular modern games to run at 1440p on the GeForce GTX 1080 EVGA Founders 8GB Edition is a solid choice of hardware for increased screen resolution gaming. We can see this graphics card is capable of delivering reliable frame rates at Ultra and certainly High graphics settings at 1440p.

How many years will the GeForce GTX 1080 EVGA Founders 8GB Edition graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the GeForce GTX 1080 EVGA Founders 8GB Edition in your PC? 2-3 years of top end gaming before an upgrade

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the GeForce GTX 1080 EVGA Founders 8GB 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 1080 EVGA Founders 8GB Edition.