1080p In-Game Testing

When I added 1440p testing, we had so many results that I was forced to split things up to make it a little easier to read. With that said I did run the GTX 980 through 10 different games at 1080p (Thief was tested but the graphs are in the next section). As usual before looking at the individual performance I take an overall look to see how many of the games tested have an average FPS above 60 FPS. Unsurprisingly almost all of the games came in WELL above that, with only Thief being just below 60, the same exact FPS that it tested with at 1440p as well. All 10 results actually average out to just over 108 FPS as well, it’s clear that the GTX 980 is more than you should need for any single monitor 1080p gaming (unless you want to run DSR). So where did the card fall in comparison to everything else tested? Well in most cases it falls at or above the performance of the GTX 780 Ti, with a few games like Bioshock Infinite, Hitman, and F1 2013 the GTX 980 pulled ahead of the 780 Ti by a large margin. In some of the tests we can see that it also is starting to get close to the SLI performance of the GTX 770 and GTX 780, just imagine what the 980 will do in SLI!