22 Jan 2021 - Graphics card reviewed

Gamers upgrading will be considering the GeForce GTX 980 EVGA Superclocked ACX 2.0 4GB Edition 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. 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 GTX 980 EVGA Superclocked ACX 2.0 4GB Edition. 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 2021. 749 games can be played by this graphics card of the 1000 most demanding games being played by PC gamers today.

Now onto the frame rates achieved at 1080p. We are seeing Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War getting 60 FPS with the GeForce GTX 980 EVGA Superclocked ACX 2.0 4GB Edition, Far Cry 6 predicted to get 26 FPS and Genshin Impact getting 53 frames per second. All run on Ultra at 1920x1080 screen res.

We move on to 1440p, and tested Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War which delivered reasonable FPS results. Here are the graphic presets - Low: 121 FPS, Medium: 95 FPS, High: 64 FPS and Ultra: 46 FPS. Next we have Far Cry 6 running on GeForce GTX 980 EVGA Superclocked ACX 2.0 4GB Edition which is predicted to get L: 51FPS, M: 40FPS, H: 27FPS, U: 19FPS. And for performance contrast the popular Genshin Impact gets L: 107FPS, M: 84FPS, H: 57FPS, U: 40FPS at 1440p. Getting popular modern games to run at 1440p on the GeForce GTX 980 EVGA Superclocked ACX 2.0 4GB Edition is not a bad choice for a larger screen size like this. Some games will struggle though, but with some careful graphic option adjustments in-game you can normally find a suitable visual experience with this GPU at 1440p.

How many years will the GeForce GTX 980 EVGA Superclocked ACX 2.0 4GB Edition graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the GeForce GTX 980 EVGA Superclocked ACX 2.0 4GB Edition in your PC? No graphics card upgrade required for around 2 years

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the GeForce GTX 980 EVGA Superclocked ACX 2.0 4GB Edition? Are you looking to upgrade a GeForce GTX 980 EVGA Superclocked ACX 2.0 4GB Edition? Then we would suggest getting a 20 Series GeForce RTX 2060 3GB GDDR5, as it can run 820 of the top 1000 demanding game requirements today with 22% increased graphics performance. Alternatively a suitable upgrade choice for the GeForce GTX 980 EVGA Superclocked ACX 2.0 4GB Edition is the R-500 Series Radeon RX Vega 56 8GB, which is 26% more powerful and can run 917 of the 1000 most demanding PC games beating their recommended requirements.