GeForce GTX 980 Ti Round-Up With MSI, ASUS, And EVGA

Name: GeForce GTX 980 Ti Round-Up Review: MSI, ASUS, and EVGA
Brand: GeForce

by Marco Chiappetta — Tuesday, October 06, 2015, 09:34 AM EDT

Metro Last Light Redux is your typical post-apocalyptic first person shooter game with a few rather unconventional twists. Unlike most FPS titles, there is no health meter to measure your level of ailment; rather, you’re left to deal with life, or lack thereof, more akin to the real world with blood spatter on your visor and your heart rate and respiration level as indicators.

Metro Last Light Redux boasts some of the best 3D visuals on the PC platform and includes a DX11 rendering mode that makes use of advanced depth of field effects and character model tessellation for increased realism. This title also supports NVIDIA PhysX technology for impressive in-game physics effects, though we left them disable here. We tested the game at resolutions of 2560x1440 and 3840x2160 with its in-game image quality options set to their High Quality mode, with DOF effects disabled.

Metro Last Light Redux

DirecX11 Gaming Performance

Metro Last Light Redux

We saw more of the same here. The customer GeForce GTX 980 Tis finish out in front at both resolutions, though the Fury X was able to overtake the reference GeForce GTX 980 Ti at the lower resolution.

Tags: Nvidia, Asus, MSI, GeForce, Gaming, graphics, GPU, evga, strix, 980 ti

Marco Chiappetta

Marco's interest in computing and technology dates all the way back to his early childhood. Even before being exposed to the Commodore P.E.T. and later the Commodore 64 in the early ‘80s, he was interested in electricity and electronics, and he still has the modded AFX cars and shop-worn soldering irons to prove it. Once he got his hands on his own Commodore 64, however, computing became Marco's passion. Throughout his academic and professional lives, Marco has worked with virtually every major platform from the TRS-80 and Amiga, to today's high end, multi-core servers. Over the years, he has worked in many fields related to technology and computing, including system design, assembly and sales, professional quality assurance testing, and technical writing. In addition to being the Managing Editor here at HotHardware for close to 15 years, Marco is also a freelance writer whose work has been published in a number of PC and technology related print publications and he is a regular fixture on HotHardware’s own Two and a Half Geeks webcast. - Contact: marco(at)hothardware(dot)com