10 Aug 2021 - Graphics card reviewed

This computer hardware provides top end graphics. The GeForce RTX 2080 Super MSI Gaming X Trio 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 Super MSI Gaming X Trio 8GB can also run 1440p pc system requirements.

GeForce RTX 2080 Super MSI Gaming X Trio 8GB is capable of DirectX 12 gaming requirements.

Here is a performance review on how capable the GeForce RTX 2080 Super MSI Gaming X Trio 8GB is at running the more popular games of 2023. Specifically looking at this PC hardware’s ability to get suitable frames per second to play on Ultra game settings and what FPS it might get on 1080p, 1440p and 4K screen res. In terms of performance against the most demanding games today this graphics card can play 997 of the 1000 most demanding PC games beating their recommended requirements.

First we looked at 1080p resolution for the GeForce RTX 2080 Super MSI Gaming X Trio 8GB performance to explore what sort of benchmarks it would achieve on the popular title Back 4 Blood and saw it deliver strong frames per second across the following graphics settings - Low: 275 FPS, Medium: 216 FPS, High: 146 FPS and Ultra: 104 FPS. We proceeded to look at Star Citizen to see how that compared and predict that it will return a strong 104 FPS at Ultra 1080p.

One of the growing popular screen resolutions for PC gaming is the wider 1440p. So we wanted to see how well the GeForce RTX 2080 Super MSI Gaming X Trio 8GB performed at 1440p by taking a look at some of the current popular games. First we looked at Back 4 Blood and saw it deliver good frames per second across the following graphics settings - Low: 209 FPS, Medium: 165 FPS, High: 111 FPS and Ultra: 79 FPS. We then checked the performance on Star Citizen to predict if that will run well. It is predicted to be good with a 79 FPS at Ultra 1440p. Running games at 1440p with a GeForce RTX 2080 Super MSI Gaming X Trio 8GB is a strong choice at these screen resolutions. With Ultra graphics settings being regularly reached at 1440p gaming its easy to consider bumping up the screen size to 4K for this graphics card.

How many years will the GeForce RTX 2080 Super MSI Gaming X Trio 8GB graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the GeForce RTX 2080 Super MSI Gaming X Trio 8GB in your PC? This gpu has around 2+ years of running AAA recommended system requirements before any upgrades should be considered.

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the GeForce RTX 2080 Super MSI Gaming X Trio 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 Super MSI Gaming X Trio 8GB.