22 Jan 2021 - 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 2021. 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 988 games from the top 1000 most demanding games being played today.

Running at 1080p this card is predicted to get a reasonable frame rate from Far Cry 6 with 53 FPS on Ultra. Then we take a look at Genshin Impact which returns a strong 83 FPS. Another title that we looked at is the popular Hitman 3 which we saw getting a good 64 FPS.

We move on to 1440p, and predict that Far Cry 6 will deliver playable FPS results. Here are the graphic presets - Low: 106 FPS, Medium: 83 FPS, High: 56 FPS and Ultra: 40 FPS. Next we have Genshin Impact running on GeForce GTX 980 4GB 3-Way SLI which gets L: 167FPS, M: 132FPS, H: 89FPS, U: 63FPS. And for performance contrast the popular Hitman 3 gets L: 129FPS, M: 102FPS, H: 68FPS, U: 49FPS 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 GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Super, which has 28% better performance and can run 998 of the top 1000 demanding game requirements today.