10 Aug 2021 - Graphics card reviewed

Gamers upgrading will be considering the GeForce GTX 1080M 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 1080M is capable of DirectX 12 gaming requirements.

What FPS performance can the GeForce GTX 1080M 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. This graphics hardware can run 800 of the 1000 most demanding PC games played today.

The GeForce GTX 1080M graphics card is predicted to return a good performance on Star Citizen at 1080p of 73 frames per second at Ultra graphics settings. Another popular title that is good to benchmark graphics cards against is Days Gone which we saw got good frame rates of 64 FPS. A third game we can look at on Ultra at 1080p is the popular Battlefield 2042, which was getting 37 FPS under tests.

Increasing resolution to 1440p is something a number of PC gamers are doing today. We tested the GeForce GTX 1080M at 1440p and researched how Star Citizen might perform on it leading us to predict a reasonable set of FPS results. These were, Low: 146 FPS, Medium: 115 FPS, High: 77 FPS and Ultra: 55 FPS. We then checked out Days Gone which had a set of graphics results as followed, L: 129FPS, M: 102FPS, H: 68FPS, U: 49FPS. And another popular game was Battlefield 2042 that returned L: 73FPS, M: 58FPS, H: 39FPS, U: 28FPS at 1440p. Gaming at 1440p with the GeForce GTX 1080M 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 1080M graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the GeForce GTX 1080M in your PC? 2-3 years of top end gaming before an upgrade

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the GeForce GTX 1080M? There are no graphics cards on the current market that would provide a big enough increase in performance to warrant upgrading the GeForce GTX 1080M.