14 Nov 2019 - Graphics card reviewed

This graphics card offers upper mid level gaming performance. The GeForce GTX 680 FTW 4GB Edition GPU could struggle if it was to try and run the most demanding games available today, but it meets a lot of game system requirements found in today’s games. DirectX 11 gaming system requirements will be met by this gpu.

What FPS performance can the GeForce GTX 680 FTW 4GB Edition get on latest AAA 2019 games? In particular our game review looks at the FPS achieved running on Ultra graphics settings on the 1080p screen resolution as well as 1440p and 4K. In terms of performance against the most demanding games today this graphics card can play 337 of the 1000 most demanding PC games beating their recommended requirements.

First we looked at 1080p resolution for the GeForce GTX 680 FTW 4GB Edition performance to explore what sort of benchmarks it would achieve on the popular title Red Dead Redemption 2 and saw it deliver playable frames per second across the following graphics settings - Low: 67 FPS, Medium: 53 FPS, High: 36 FPS and Ultra: 26 FPS. We proceeded to look at Planet Zoo to see how that compared and saw that it returned a weak 4 FPS at Ultra 1080p.

People are turning their increasingly more powerful graphics cards to the popular 1440p screen size so we tested the GeForce GTX 680 FTW 4GB Edition to see how it performs on 1440p. First off we have looked at Red Dead Redemption 2 where it was weak. The frame rates it scored for the game presets were - Low: 51 FPS, Medium: 40 FPS, High: 27 FPS and Ultra: 19 FPS. We added Planet Zoo to our tests and saw it was weak with a 3 FPS at Ultra 1440p. And then tested Need For Speed Heat which got 19 FPS at Ultra 1440p. Gaming at 1440p with the GeForce GTX 680 FTW 4GB Edition is unable to perform adequately across modern games at this increased resolution.

How many years will the GeForce GTX 680 FTW 4GB Edition graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the GeForce GTX 680 FTW 4GB Edition in your PC? 12-18 months of top end gaming is still left in this graphics card

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the GeForce GTX 680 FTW 4GB Edition ? A suitable upgrade choice for the GeForce GTX 680 FTW 4GB Edition is the 16 Series GeForce GTX 1660 Super 6GB, which is 86% more powerful and can run 897 of the 1000 most demanding PC games beating their recommended requirements. Alternatively if you are thinking of upgrading this graphics card then we would currently suggest the RX 5000 Series Radeon RX 5500 4GB. This PC hardware upgrade performs 39% better and can run 686 of today’s 1000 most demanding PC games.