13 Dec 2019 - Graphics card reviewed

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

Here is a quick game performance synopsis for the AAA games played in 2019. In particular we focus on how well the GeForce GTX 980 Ti MSI Sea Hawk 6GB Edition runs at Ultra graphics settings and what frames per second it is getting at 1080p, 1440p and 4K monitor resolutions. 893 games can be played by this graphics card of the 1000 most demanding games being played by PC gamers today.

Looking at some of the modern popular games people are playing today the GeForce GTX 980 Ti MSI Sea Hawk 6GB Edition is running Star Wars: Jedi - Fallen Order and delivering reasonable performances on 1080p Ultra, getting 50 frames per second. Comparing this to Borderlands 3 which is getting good results, where it averages 64 FPS. Another popular game we looked at is FIFA 20, which is running at 179 frames per second.

People are turning their increasingly more powerful graphics cards to the popular 1440p screen size so we tested the GeForce GTX 980 Ti MSI Sea Hawk 6GB Edition to see how it performs on 1440p. First off we have looked at Star Wars: Jedi - Fallen Order where it was playable. The frame rates it scored for the game presets were - Low: 100 FPS, Medium: 79 FPS, High: 53 FPS and Ultra: 38 FPS. We added Borderlands 3 to our tests and saw it was reasonable with a 49 FPS at Ultra 1440p. And then tested FIFA 20 which got 137 FPS at Ultra 1440p. 1440p GeForce GTX 980 Ti MSI Sea Hawk 6GB Edition PC gaming 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 Sea Hawk 6GB Edition graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the GeForce GTX 980 Ti MSI Sea Hawk 6GB Edition in your PC? This gpu has around 2+ years of running AAA recommended system requirements before any upgrades should be considered.

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the GeForce GTX 980 Ti MSI Sea Hawk 6GB Edition? Upgrading this graphics card would have us consider the 20 Series GeForce RTX 2060 Super 8GB which is 21% more powerful. This upgrade choice can also run 992 games from the most demanding games today. Alternatively upgrading this graphics card would have us consider the RX 5000 Series Radeon RX 5700 XT 8GB which is 26% more powerful. This upgrade choice can also run 992 games from the most demanding games today.