15 Sep 2020 - Graphics card reviewed

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

Here is a performance review on how capable the GeForce GTX 680 Quad SLI is at running the more popular games of 2020. 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. When considering how well this graphics card can run the 1000 most demanding games available today it can best 772 of the games’ recommended graphics requirements.

With 1080p being the most common gaming resolution at the moment we explored how well the GeForce GTX 680 Quad SLI can run Grand Theft Auto VI at 1080p and predict it will return playable frame rates at the following graphics settings - Low: 82 FPS, Medium: 64 FPS, High: 43 FPS and Ultra: 31 FPS. For performance contrast we can see that Valorant returns a strong 551 FPS at Ultra 1080p.

With PC gamers looking for larger screen sizes like 1440p we tested the GeForce GTX 680 Quad SLI by researching Grand Theft Auto VI leading us to predict a weak performance. Its FPS predictions for the graphics settings are as follows - L: 62FPS, M: 49FPS, H: 33FPS, U: 24FPS. Another popular game we tested with this card was Valorant and that was strong. This graphics card delivered 420 FPS at Ultra 1440p. Another popular title was Horizon: Zero Dawn which gets playable results with a 39FPS on Ultra 1440p. 1440p gaming on the GeForce GTX 680 Quad SLI is probably one of the better high resolution gaming options on the graphics card market. You can consider pushing most games up to 4K with this gpu and Ultra 1440p is going to be a regular occurrence for gaming today.

How many years will the GeForce GTX 680 Quad SLI graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the GeForce GTX 680 Quad SLI 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 GTX 680 Quad SLI? A good choice when looking to upgrade the GeForce GTX 680 Quad SLI would be the 16 Series GeForce GTX 1660 Super 6GB which meets 831 of the 1000 top game’s recommended system requirements and has 22% better performance. An alternative great upgrade graphics card would be a R-500 Series Radeon RX Vega 56 8GB, which has 31% better performance and can run 932 of the top 1000 demanding game requirements today.