14 Nov 2019 - Graphics card reviewed

Gamers upgrading will be considering the GeForce GTX 680 SLI 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 680 SLI is capable of DirectX 11 gaming requirements.

Here is a performance review on how capable the GeForce GTX 680 SLI is at running the more popular games of 2019. 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. This graphics hardware can run 702 of the 1000 most demanding PC games played today.

Looking at some of the modern popular games people are playing today the GeForce GTX 680 SLI is running Borderlands 3 and delivering reasonable performances on 1080p Ultra, getting 48 frames per second. Comparing this to Planet Zoo which is getting playable results, where it averages 32 FPS. Another popular game we looked at is FIFA 20, which is running at 133 frames per second.

Next up we increase screen res tests to accommodate the growing in popularity 1440p screen size. So we booted up Borderlands 3 to see how the GeForce GTX 680 SLI dealt with it. It scored up a playable series of FPS results across these graphics presets - Low: 96 FPS, Medium: 75 FPS, High: 51 FPS and Ultra: 36 FPS. Next we looked at Planet Zoo which was weak with a 24 FPS at Ultra 1440p. And finally looked at FIFA 20 that got an Ultra 1440p FPS of 101. Getting popular modern games to run at 1440p on the GeForce GTX 680 SLI is one of the better graphics cards for gaming at this screen resolution. We will see 1440p Ultra and High settings across almost all current games.

How many years will the GeForce GTX 680 SLI graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the GeForce GTX 680 SLI in your PC? There is still 2 years of top end gaming left in this GeForce GTX 680 SLI

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the GeForce GTX 680 SLI? Are you looking to upgrade a GeForce GTX 680 SLI? Then we would suggest getting a 16 Series GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 6GB, as it can run 899 of the top 1000 demanding game requirements today with 33% increased graphics performance. Alternatively we would suggest getting a R-500 Series Radeon RX Vega 56 8GB, as it can run 961 of the top 1000 demanding game requirements today with 40% increased graphics performance.