Gaming next, and Battlefield 4 up first. Battlefield 4 has a matured graphics engine and it is not really phased by any drivers or graphics cards, it should maximize your hardware and set you up for lots of online killing!
Battlefield 4 is also our “go to” game for 4K UHD pleasure, and it’s stood out in the past few years as an excellent gaming engine with a capability to maintain performance through the resolution ranks.
With the recent performances of the Zotac GTX 980 Ti AMP! Edition and the Palit Super Jetstream GTX 980 Ti we realised we need to remove the 200 FPS limit that the Battlefield 4 game imposes as standard. We used the “GameTime.MaxVariableFps 0” entry in the user.cfg file, this allows the game to support frames per second higher than 200 with superb results from the Nvidia stock of cards in this test.
There isn’t a graphics card here that doesn’t do well with Battlefield 4, and there isn’t a minimum below 60 FPS. We will need to see how Battlefield 1 ranks against its predecessor, hopefully it’s got the same optimised game engine. We will start to benchmark it in future reviews and post some videos on our YouTube channel on the release day.
EVGA Nvidia GTX 1080 Founders Edition Graphics Card Review
Package and Bundle - 8
Performance - 9.5
Price - 8.5
Consumer Experience - 9.5
8.9
Nvidia may have dropped the ball a little with the release drivers, and the subsequent drivers that game to fix the issues, but there's no doubt, the Nvidia GTX 1080 Founders Edition is a stellar performance, and the VGA GTX 1080 Founders Edition exercises the GPU core perfectly.