13 Dec 2019 - 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 2019. 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 842 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 Red Dead Redemption 2 and saw it deliver reasonable frames per second across the following graphics settings - Low: 136 FPS, Medium: 107 FPS, High: 72 FPS and Ultra: 52 FPS. We proceeded to look at Star Wars: Jedi - Fallen Order to see how that compared and saw that it returned a playable 37 FPS at Ultra 1080p.

We move on to 1440p, and tested Red Dead Redemption 2 which delivered playable FPS results. Here are the graphic presets - Low: 104 FPS, Medium: 82 FPS, High: 55 FPS and Ultra: 39 FPS. Next we have Star Wars: Jedi - Fallen Order running on GeForce GTX 980 Asus ROG Poseidon 4GB Edition which gets L: 75FPS, M: 59FPS, H: 40FPS, U: 28FPS. And for performance contrast the popular Microsoft Flight Simulator is predicted to get L: 75FPS, M: 59FPS, H: 40FPS, U: 28FPS at 1440p. Running games at 1440p with a GeForce GTX 980 Asus ROG Poseidon 4GB Edition is a perfectly suitable selection of hardware for theis larger screen size. If a game at 1440p struggles a bit or experiences a frame drop then you can tweak settings in game to help get it stable. This might mean lowering it to medium or low in some specific options.

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 Ti 6GB which meets 893 of the 1000 top game’s recommended system requirements and has 23% 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 957 of the 1000 most demanding PC games beating their recommended requirements.