13 Dec 2019 - Graphics card reviewed

One of the most powerful pieces of hardware available today, the GeForce GTX 980 Ti MSI 6GB Edition runs today’s game system requirements comfortably. Capable of running games with up to a DirectX 12 requirement.

How well will the GeForce GTX 980 Ti MSI 6GB Edition run 2019 games? We will take a look at the biggest releases and frames per second analysis on Ultra graphics settings. 870 games can be played by this graphics card of the 1000 most demanding games being played by PC gamers today.

Now onto the frame rates achieved at 1080p. We are seeing Detroit: Become Human getting 38 FPS with the GeForce GTX 980 Ti MSI 6GB Edition, Microsoft Flight Simulator predicted to get 44 FPS and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare getting 54 frames per second. All run on Ultra at 1920x1080 screen res.

Next up we increase screen res tests to accommodate the growing in popularity 1440p screen size. So we booted up Detroit: Become Human to see how the GeForce GTX 980 Ti MSI 6GB Edition dealt with it. It scored up a playable series of FPS results across these graphics presets - Low: 77 FPS, Medium: 60 FPS, High: 41 FPS and Ultra: 29 FPS. Next we looked at Microsoft Flight Simulator which we predict will be playable with a 34 FPS at Ultra 1440p. And finally looked at Call of Duty: Modern Warfare that got an Ultra 1440p FPS of 41. Getting popular modern games to run at 1440p on the GeForce GTX 980 Ti MSI 6GB Edition is a reasonable choice at this screen size. You can always tweak modern game graphics settings to help you get a better High graphics setting experience at 1440p.

How many years will the GeForce GTX 980 Ti MSI 6GB Edition graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the GeForce GTX 980 Ti MSI 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 MSI 6GB Edition? If you want an upgrade suggestion for the GeForce GTX 980 Ti MSI 6GB Edition then a good choice would be 20 Series GeForce RTX 2060 6GB as this is better than 967 of the top 1000 most demanding game requirements with 21% better performance as well. Alternatively a good choice when looking to upgrade the GeForce GTX 980 Ti MSI 6GB Edition would be the R-500 Series Radeon RX Vega 64 Air XT 8GB which meets 982 of the 1000 top game’s recommended system requirements and has 25% better performance.