15 Sep 2020 - 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 2020. 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 990 games from the top 1000 most demanding games being played today.

Running at 1080p this card gets a strong frame rate from Marvel's Avengers with 83 FPS on Ultra. Then we take a look at Mafia: Definitive Edition which is predicted to return a reasonable 58 FPS. Another title that we looked at is the popular Microsoft Flight Simulator which we saw getting a strong 94 FPS.

We move on to 1440p, and tested Marvel's Avengers which delivered good FPS results. Here are the graphic presets - Low: 167 FPS, Medium: 132 FPS, High: 89 FPS and Ultra: 63 FPS. Next we have Mafia: Definitive Edition running on GeForce GTX 980 4GB 3-Way SLI which is predicted to get L: 117FPS, M: 92FPS, H: 62FPS, U: 44FPS. And for performance contrast the popular Microsoft Flight Simulator gets L: 189FPS, M: 149FPS, H: 100FPS, U: 72FPS at 1440p. Getting popular modern games to run at 1440p on the GeForce GTX 980 4GB 3-Way SLI is probably one of the better high resolution gaming options on the graphics card market. You can consider pushing most games up to 4K with this gpu and Ultra 1440p is going to be a regular occurrence for gaming today.

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.