NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB Video Card Review

Far Cry 4

Far Cry 4 is an action-adventure first-person shooter video game developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft for the PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One video game consoles, and Microsoft Windows. It is the sequel to 2012’s Far Cry 3. The game was released on November 18th, 2014 in North America and Europe. Far Cry 4 follows Ajay Ghale, a young Kyrati-American who returns to his native country Kyrat to spread his deceased mother’s ashes. He finds the country in a state of civil war between Kyrat’s Royal Army led by the country’s eccentric and tyrant king Pagan Min and the Golden Path, a rebel movement fighting to free Kyrat from Min’s oppressive rule.

Far Cry 4 uses the heavily modified Dunia Engine 2 game engine with Havok physics. The graphics are excellent and the game really pushes the limits of what one can expect from mainstream graphics cards. We set game title to Ultra image quality settings and did not adjust any of the advanced settings.

Far Cry 4 uses about 30% of the processor and is running on multiple cores as you can see from our screen capture above. One core has more of a load on it than the others, but all logical processors are being uses to some degree when playing Far Cry 4.

Benchmark Results: In Far Cry 4 we found the new NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 at 32.36, the GeForce GTX 980 Ti at 41.96 FPS and the GeForce GTX Titan X at 43.71 FPS. When overclocked the GeForce GTX 980 Ti we were able to average 50.62 FPS on FarCry 4 and our gaming experience was excellent on this awesome looking game title. The AMD Radeon R9 295X2 had the highest average FPS at 59.20, but it was choppy at various times when we were playing the game title.

Benchmark Results: The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti is just slightly slower than the NVIDIA GeForce GTX Titan X as you can see when you look at the frame rate over time chart.