Home / Tech News / Featured Tech News / MSI GTX 980 Ti Lightning 6GB Review

MSI GTX 980 Ti Lightning 6GB Review

Grand Theft Auto V is an action-adventure game played from either a first-person or third-person view. Players complete missions—linear scenarios with set objectives—to progress through the story.

Outside of missions, players can freely roam the open world. Composed of the San Andreas open countryside area and the fictional city of Los Santos, the world of Grand Theft Auto V is much larger in area than earlier entries in the series.

The world may be fully explored from the beginning of the game without restrictions, although story progress unlocks more gameplay content. (Wikipedia).

GTA-V-4K-1 GTA-V-4K-2 GTA-V-4K-3 GTA-V-4K-4

We set all of GTA V's settings to their highest levels for both resolutions but made sure to disable the performance-crippling MSAA settings. We saw the game use almost 4GB of VRAM at 2560×1440 and around 4.5GB at 4K (where possible with the relevant video cards). The built-in benchmark is used to gather performance data.

Performance data from the AMD R9 295X2 unfortunately could not make it into the charts as the card has a bug with our test monitor that prevents GTA V's benchmark from operating.

GTA 1440

GTA 4k
At 1440p the game averages over 80 frames per second with a couple of dips just below 40fps. At Ultra 4K the real world gaming experience is not bad, although at these very high image quality settings we would recommend SLi or Crossfire to get those ultra smooth frame rates.

Become a Patron!

Check Also

Intel’s x86S initiative has been abandoned

Intel has officially abandoned its plans for its own-developed x86S specification, a streamlined version of …

4 comments

  1. You would think that this GPU would perform better than the rest on the market, but my Asus GTX980-Ti-OC-STRIX-6GB perform even under Air much better than the Lightning.

  2. Hey, what boost clock does this card have without overclocking?

  3. did it not win an award from you?

  4. Sorry I’m dumb. So it does 🙂