10 Aug 2021 - Graphics card reviewed

This computer hardware provides top end graphics. The GeForce RTX 2080 Gainward Phantom 8GB 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 RTX 2080 Gainward Phantom 8GB can also run 1440p pc system requirements.

This card meets game requirements up to DirectX 12.

Here we take a closer look at the various performances across 1080p, 1440p and 4K screen resolutions for the GeForce RTX 2080 Gainward Phantom 8GB. 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. 996 games can be played by this graphics card of the 1000 most demanding games being played by PC gamers today.

The GeForce RTX 2080 Gainward Phantom 8GB graphics card is returning a good performance on Dying Light 2 at 1080p of 62 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 strong frame rates of 98 FPS. A third game we can look at on Ultra at 1080p is the popular Days Gone, which was getting 87 FPS under tests.

We move on to 1440p, and tested Dying Light 2 which delivered reasonable FPS results. Here are the graphic presets - Low: 124 FPS, Medium: 98 FPS, High: 66 FPS and Ultra: 47 FPS. Next we have Back 4 Blood running on GeForce RTX 2080 Gainward Phantom 8GB which gets L: 196FPS, M: 155FPS, H: 104FPS, U: 74FPS. And for performance contrast the popular Days Gone gets L: 174FPS, M: 137FPS, H: 92FPS, U: 66FPS at 1440p. Looking at a few of these 1440p results for the GeForce RTX 2080 Gainward Phantom 8GB we get the impression that it is a very good hardware option at these screen sizes. Ultra is easily achieved across almost all games at 1440p and we would suggest an increase of screen size up to 4K for this graphics card.

How many years will the GeForce RTX 2080 Gainward Phantom 8GB graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the GeForce RTX 2080 Gainward Phantom 8GB 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 RTX 2080 Gainward Phantom 8GB? There are no graphics cards on the current market that would provide a big enough increase in performance to warrant upgrading the GeForce RTX 2080 Gainward Phantom 8GB.