10 Aug 2021 - Graphics card reviewed

This computer hardware provides top end graphics. The GeForce GTX 1080 Ti MSI Lightning X 11GB 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 Ti MSI Lightning X 11GB can also run 1440p pc system requirements.

DirectX 12 gaming system requirements will be met by this gpu.

Here we take a closer look at the various performances across 1080p, 1440p and 4K screen resolutions for the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti MSI Lightning X 11GB. In particular this is looking at the Ultra graphics settings to see what sort of FPS this graphics card can get across some of the more popular games played in 2023. Of the 1000 most demanding recommended specs found in game requirements today, this gpu is more powerful than the graphics requirement of 990 games in todays list.

With 1080p being the most common gaming resolution at the moment we explored how well the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti MSI Lightning X 11GB can run Grand Theft Auto VI at 1080p and predict it will return reasonable frame rates at the following graphics settings - Low: 156 FPS, Medium: 123 FPS, High: 83 FPS and Ultra: 59 FPS. For performance contrast we can see that Battlefield 2042 returns a reasonable 51 FPS at Ultra 1080p.

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 1080 Ti MSI Lightning X 11GB will run the upcoming game Grand Theft Auto VI to a reasonable performance level. Predictions across the graphics settings looked like this, Low: 119 FPS, Medium: 94 FPS, High: 63 FPS and Ultra: 45 FPS. Another game tested was Battlefield 2042, L: 103FPS, M: 81FPS, H: 54FPS, U: 39FPS. And then we checked graphics card performance on FIFA 22, which returned L: 290FPS, M: 228FPS, H: 154FPS, U: 110FPS at 1440p. Looking at a few of these 1440p results for the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti MSI Lightning X 11GB we get the impression that it is more than capable at running this screen resolution. 1440p Ultra across almost all modern games is going to be fairly standard with this GPU. We would consider moving this hardware up to 4K screen resolutions for PC gaming today.

How many years will the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti MSI Lightning X 11GB graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti MSI Lightning X 11GB 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 1080 Ti MSI Lightning X 11GB? 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 Ti MSI Lightning X 11GB.