Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 4GB “Maxwell” (28nm) Review

Metro Last Light

“Metro: Last Light (formerly Metro 2034) is a first-person shooter and horror video game developed by Ukrainian studio 4A Games and published by Deep Silver for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. It was released in May 2013. The game is set in a post-apocalyptic world and features a mixture of action-oriented and stealth gameplay. The game exists in the universe of the novel, Metro 2033, and its sequels, written by Russian author, Dmitry Glukhovsky, but does not follow any direct storylines from the books. Metro:Last Light takes place one year after the events of Metro 2033, proceeding from the canonical ending from the novel, ending where Artyom chose to call down the missile strike on the Dark Ones.Metro: Last Light features technology which boasts of lighting effects and improved physics claimed to set a new graphical benchmark on the PC and consoles.” From Wikipedia.org

Metro Last Light can bring just about any high end GPU to its knees and despite the GTX 980’s massive performance potential it just scrapes north of 30 FPS at 1440p. Mind you, the GTX 780 Ti manages the same so it’s a valiant showing when we consider the GTX 980 costs less and consumes less power.