14 Nov 2019 - Graphics card reviewed

The GeForce GTX 980 4GB 3-Way SLI will blast beyond the majority of games requirements at 1080p, so crank up your screen resolution to 1440p or 4K and let the beautiful AAA game visuals wash over you. This is how gaming is meant to be played but you are likely to have to pay top dollar for the GeForce GTX 980 4GB 3-Way SLI privilege. But if you can get this graphics solution, then its happy gaming. All games with system requirements of DirectX 12 or lower are met by this card.

Lets look at the GeForce GTX 980 4GB 3-Way SLI game performance guide for some of the biggest games played in 2019. In particular we will see how well this graphics card runs on Ultra settings on 1080p resolution as well as 1440p and 4K. This card runs recommended graphics requirements of 994 games from the top 1000 most demanding games being played today.

Running at 1080p this card gets a good frame rate from Planet Zoo with 64 FPS on Ultra. Then we take a look at Diablo 4 which is predicted to return a good 64 FPS. Another title that we looked at is the popular Call of Duty: Modern Warfare which we saw getting a good 78 FPS.

We move on to 1440p, and tested Planet Zoo which delivered reasonable FPS results. Here are the graphic presets - Low: 129 FPS, Medium: 102 FPS, High: 68 FPS and Ultra: 49 FPS. Next we have Diablo 4 running on GeForce GTX 980 4GB 3-Way SLI which is predicted to get L: 129FPS, M: 102FPS, H: 68FPS, U: 49FPS. And for performance contrast the popular Call of Duty: Modern Warfare gets L: 156FPS, M: 123FPS, H: 83FPS, U: 59FPS at 1440p. Getting popular modern games to run at 1440p on the GeForce GTX 980 4GB 3-Way SLI is a good choice of hardware for increased screen resolution gaming. We can see this graphics card is capable of delivering reliable frame rates at Ultra and certainly High graphics settings at 1440p.

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

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the GeForce GTX 980 4GB 3-Way SLI? A great upgrade graphics card would be a 20 Series Titan RTX, which has 30% better performance and can run 998 of the top 1000 demanding game requirements today.