2 Aug 2020 - Graphics card reviewed

Gamers upgrading will be considering the GeForce GTX 980 Asus ROG Poseidon 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. GeForce GTX 980 Asus ROG Poseidon 4GB Edition is capable of DirectX 12 gaming requirements.

Game performance for the GeForce GTX 980 Asus ROG Poseidon 4GB Edition where we look at the bigger games played in 2020. Looking closely at the graphics card frame rate performance on Ultra graphics settings at 1080p, 1440p and 4K screen resolutions. The GeForce GTX 980 Asus ROG Poseidon 4GB Edition can run the recommended graphics system requirements for 794 games today, of the top 1000 most demanding.

First we looked at 1080p resolution for the GeForce GTX 980 Asus ROG Poseidon 4GB Edition performance to explore what sort of benchmarks it would achieve on the popular title Cyberpunk 2077 and predict it will deliver playable frames per second across the following graphics settings - Low: 98 FPS, Medium: 77 FPS, High: 52 FPS and Ultra: 37 FPS. We proceeded to look at Assassins Creed: Valhalla to see how that compared and predict that it will return a playable 25 FPS at Ultra 1080p.

We move on to 1440p, and predict that Cyberpunk 2077 will deliver playable FPS results. Here are the graphic presets - Low: 75 FPS, Medium: 59 FPS, High: 40 FPS and Ultra: 28 FPS. Next we have Assassins Creed: Valhalla running on GeForce GTX 980 Asus ROG Poseidon 4GB Edition which is predicted to get L: 38FPS, M: 33FPS, H: 28FPS, U: 19FPS. And for performance contrast the popular Grand Theft Auto VI is predicted to get L: 63FPS, M: 50FPS, H: 34FPS, U: 24FPS at 1440p. Running games at 1440p with a GeForce GTX 980 Asus ROG Poseidon 4GB Edition is not the best resolution for this GPU, but if you adjust some graphics settings, perhaps lowering to medium or low at 1440p then this graphics card might be ok.

How many years will the GeForce GTX 980 Asus ROG Poseidon 4GB Edition graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the GeForce GTX 980 Asus ROG Poseidon 4GB Edition in your PC? 2-3 years of top end gaming before an upgrade

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the GeForce GTX 980 Asus ROG Poseidon 4GB Edition? A good choice when looking to upgrade the GeForce GTX 980 Asus ROG Poseidon 4GB Edition would be the 16 Series GeForce GTX 1660 Super 6GB which meets 852 of the 1000 top game’s recommended system requirements and has 21% better performance. Alternatively a suitable upgrade choice for the GeForce GTX 980 Asus ROG Poseidon 4GB Edition is the R-500 Series Radeon RX Vega 56 8GB, which is 30% more powerful and can run 945 of the 1000 most demanding PC games beating their recommended requirements.