28 Nov 2019 - Graphics card reviewed

A true powerhouse, the GeForce GTX 980 Ti MSI Gaming 6GB Edition SLI will run even the most demanding game system requirements released today. This card meets game requirements up to DirectX 12.

We take a look at game performance achieved on this graphics card when running 2019 popular games. This short GeForce GTX 980 Ti MSI Gaming 6GB Edition SLI game hardware review looks at the graphics card frame rate performance on Ultra graphics settings at 1080p, 1440p and 4K screen resolutions. When considering how well this graphics card can run the 1000 most demanding games available today it can best 997 of the games’ recommended graphics requirements.

First we looked at 1080p resolution for the GeForce GTX 980 Ti MSI Gaming 6GB Edition SLI performance to explore what sort of benchmarks it would achieve on the popular title Red Dead Redemption 2 and saw it deliver strong frames per second across the following graphics settings - Low: 255 FPS, Medium: 201 FPS, High: 135 FPS and Ultra: 97 FPS. We proceeded to look at Halo: Reach to see how that compared and saw that it returned a strong 280 FPS at Ultra 1080p.

As the PC gaming masses explore larger screen resolutions we decided to run some game checks at 1440p across a few popular games. We discovered the GeForce GTX 980 Ti MSI Gaming 6GB Edition SLI ran Red Dead Redemption 2 to a good performance level. Results across the graphics settings looked like this, Low: 194 FPS, Medium: 153 FPS, High: 103 FPS and Ultra: 74 FPS. Another game tested was Halo: Reach, L: 563FPS, M: 443FPS, H: 298FPS, U: 213FPS. And then we researched potential graphics card performance on Cyberpunk 2077, wih estimates revealing L: 149FPS, M: 117FPS, H: 79FPS, U: 56FPS at 1440p. In summary we feel the GeForce GTX 980 Ti MSI Gaming 6GB Edition SLI 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 MSI Gaming 6GB Edition SLI graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the GeForce GTX 980 Ti MSI Gaming 6GB Edition 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 Ti MSI Gaming 6GB Edition SLI? There are no graphics cards on the current market that would provide a big enough increase in performance to warrant upgrading the GeForce GTX 980 Ti MSI Gaming 6GB Edition SLI.