14 Oct 2020 - Graphics card reviewed

The GeForce GTX 980 Ti Zotac AMP! Extreme 6GB Edition 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 Ti Zotac AMP! Extreme 6GB Edition privilege. But if you can get this graphics solution, then its happy gaming. Capable of running games with up to a DirectX 12 requirement.

Here we take a closer look at the various performances across 1080p, 1440p and 4K screen resolutions for the GeForce GTX 980 Ti Zotac AMP! Extreme 6GB Edition. In particular this is looking at the Ultra graphics settings to see what sort of FPS this graphics card can get across some of the more popular games played in 2020. This card runs recommended graphics requirements of 916 games from the top 1000 most demanding games being played today.

With 1080p being the most common gaming resolution at the moment we explored how well the GeForce GTX 980 Ti Zotac AMP! Extreme 6GB Edition can run FIFA 21 at 1080p and saw it return strong frame rates at the following graphics settings - Low: 414 FPS, Medium: 345 FPS, High: 253 FPS and Ultra: 184 FPS. For performance contrast we can see that Microsoft Flight Simulator returns a good 75 FPS at Ultra 1080p.

With PC gamers looking for larger screen sizes like 1440p we tested the GeForce GTX 980 Ti Zotac AMP! Extreme 6GB Edition by playing FIFA 21 which yielded a strong performance. Its FPS results for the graphics settings are as follows - L: 316FPS, M: 263FPS, H: 193FPS, U: 140FPS. Another popular game we tested with this card was Microsoft Flight Simulator and that was reasonable. This graphics card delivered 57 FPS at Ultra 1440p. Another popular title was Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War which is predicted to get reasonable results with a 47FPS on Ultra 1440p. In summary we feel the GeForce GTX 980 Ti Zotac AMP! Extreme 6GB Edition running at 1440p is easily capable of pc gaming across these screen resolutions. Turn the game settings up to Ultra at 1440p. This GPU is also capable of running a solid FPS across a lot of games at 4K resolution as well.

How many years will the GeForce GTX 980 Ti Zotac AMP! Extreme 6GB Edition graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the GeForce GTX 980 Ti Zotac AMP! Extreme 6GB Edition in your PC? No graphics card upgrade required for 2 to 3 years of meeting top end game system requirements

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the GeForce GTX 980 Ti Zotac AMP! Extreme 6GB Edition? If you are thinking of upgrading this graphics card then we would currently suggest the 20 Series GeForce RTX 2070 Super 8GB. This PC hardware upgrade performs 29% better and can run 991 of today’s 1000 most demanding PC games. An alternative great upgrade graphics card would be a RX 5000 Series Radeon RX 5700 XT 8GB, which has 23% better performance and can run 986 of the top 1000 demanding game requirements today.