20 Feb 2021 - 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 2021. This card runs recommended graphics requirements of 896 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 Assassins Creed: Valhalla at 1080p and saw it return reasonable frame rates at the following graphics settings - Low: 90 FPS, Medium: 77 FPS, High: 66 FPS and Ultra: 45 FPS. For performance contrast we can see that Hitman 3 returns a reasonable 51 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 Assassins Creed: Valhalla which yielded a playable performance. Its FPS results for the graphics settings are as follows - L: 68FPS, M: 58FPS, H: 50FPS, U: 34FPS. Another popular game we tested with this card was Hitman 3 and that was playable. This graphics card delivered 39 FPS at Ultra 1440p. Another popular title was Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War which gets reasonable results with a 57FPS on Ultra 1440p. In summary we feel the GeForce GTX 980 Ti Zotac AMP! Extreme 6GB Edition running at 1440p is a solid 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 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 990 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 982 of the top 1000 demanding game requirements today.