2 Aug 2020 - Graphics card reviewed

Gamers upgrading will be considering the GeForce GTX 980 Gigabyte XTREME 4GB Edition graphics card as a serious price to performance entry point. This card will meet and play most demanding AAA games and do so with good graphics setting as standard, and confidently pushing past the recommended game system requirements needed to run today’s games. GeForce GTX 980 Gigabyte XTREME 4GB Edition is capable of DirectX 12 gaming requirements.

Game performance for the GeForce GTX 980 Gigabyte XTREME 4GB Edition where we look at the bigger games played in 2020. Looking closely at the graphics card frame rate performance on Ultra graphics settings at 1080p, 1440p and 4K screen resolutions. This graphics hardware can run 803 of the 1000 most demanding PC games played today.

The GeForce GTX 980 Gigabyte XTREME 4GB Edition graphics card is predicted to return a playable performance on Marvel's Avengers at 1080p of 39 frames per second at Ultra graphics settings. Another popular title that is good to benchmark graphics cards against is Grounded which we saw got reasonable frame rates of 54 FPS. A third game we can look at on Ultra at 1080p is the popular Microsoft Flight Simulator, which is predicted to get 61 FPS under tests.

As the PC gaming masses explore larger screen resolutions we decided to run some game checks at 1440p across a few popular games. We predict the GeForce GTX 980 Gigabyte XTREME 4GB Edition will run the upcoming game Marvel's Avengers to a playable performance level. Predictions across the graphics settings looked like this, Low: 79 FPS, Medium: 62 FPS, High: 42 FPS and Ultra: 30 FPS. Another game tested was Grounded, L: 108FPS, M: 85FPS, H: 57FPS, U: 41FPS. And then we researched potential graphics card performance on Microsoft Flight Simulator, wih estimates revealing L: 122FPS, M: 96FPS, H: 65FPS, U: 46FPS at 1440p. Getting popular modern games to run at 1440p on the GeForce GTX 980 Gigabyte XTREME 4GB Edition is not a bad choice for a larger screen size like this. Some games will struggle though, but with some careful graphic option adjustments in-game you can normally find a suitable visual experience with this GPU at 1440p.

How many years will the GeForce GTX 980 Gigabyte XTREME 4GB Edition graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the GeForce GTX 980 Gigabyte XTREME 4GB Edition in your PC? 2-3 years of top end gaming before an upgrade

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the GeForce GTX 980 Gigabyte XTREME 4GB Edition? If you want an upgrade suggestion for the GeForce GTX 980 Gigabyte XTREME 4GB Edition then a good choice would be 20 Series GeForce RTX 2060 3GB GDDR5 as this is better than 859 of the top 1000 most demanding game requirements with 21% better performance as well. An alternative great upgrade graphics card would be a R-500 Series Radeon RX Vega 56 8GB, which has 25% better performance and can run 945 of the top 1000 demanding game requirements today.