22 Jan 2021 - Graphics card reviewed

While some games have more powerful requirements than this GPU, the GeForce GTX 780 Gigabyte GHz Edition is only really challenged by the most demanding games released today, but normally it is more than capable of running games with a stable frame rate at 1080p. Capable of running games with up to a DirectX 11 requirement.

Here is a quick game performance synopsis for the AAA games played in 2021. In particular we focus on how well the GeForce GTX 780 Gigabyte GHz Edition runs at Ultra graphics settings and what frames per second it is getting at 1080p, 1440p and 4K monitor resolutions. In comparison to the game recommended requirements of the 1000 most demanding games played today this PC hardware can run 130.

A GeForce GTX 780 Gigabyte GHz Edition card at 1080p is seeing a playable frame rate when running Hitman 3 on Ultra - 25 FPS. Lets look at the performance its getting on FIFA 21 which is 120 FPS. To add a bit more variety lets see how the popular Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War performs on this hardware, which gets a reasonable 49 FPS.

As the PC gaming masses explore larger screen resolutions we decided to run some game checks at 1440p across a few popular games. We discovered the GeForce GTX 780 Gigabyte GHz Edition ran Hitman 3 to a weak performance level. Results across the graphics settings looked like this, Low: 49 FPS, Medium: 39 FPS, High: 26 FPS and Ultra: 19 FPS. Another game tested was FIFA 21, L: 206FPS, M: 172FPS, H: 126FPS, U: 92FPS. And then we checked graphics card performance on Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, which returned L: 98FPS, M: 77FPS, H: 52FPS, U: 37FPS at 1440p. 1440p GeForce GTX 780 Gigabyte GHz Edition PC gaming 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 780 Gigabyte GHz Edition graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the GeForce GTX 780 Gigabyte GHz Edition in your PC? We think this GeForce GTX 780 Gigabyte GHz Edition has around 6-12 months until an upgrade should be considered.

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the GeForce GTX 780 Gigabyte GHz Edition? A good choice when looking to upgrade the GeForce GTX 780 Gigabyte GHz Edition would be the 16 Series GeForce GTX 1660 Super 6GB which meets 811 of the 1000 top game’s recommended system requirements and has 45% better performance. Alternatively a good upgrade choice for this graphics card today would be the R-500 Series Radeon RX 590 8GB. For comparison of the 1000 most demanding games around today this suggested upgrade is 25% better and can meet 759 of their recommended requirements.