NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Review: Ampere Is A Gaming Monster
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080: DirectX And Vulkan Gaming Benchmarks
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Crytek Neon Noir
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GeForce RTX 3080 @4K Ultra Details
We also tested Metro Exodus with RTX and DLSS enabled, so no Radeons in the charts here. Once again, the GeForce RTX 3080 leads the pack, outgunning the Titan RTX by over 15% and the GeForce RTX 2080 Super by nearly 55%.
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The new GeForce RTX 3080 continued its winning ways in the Red Dead Redeption 2 benchmark. At both resolutions, the RTX 3080 clearly led the pack, finishing at the top of the charts ahead of every other card we tested -- yet again.
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GeForce RTX 3080 Gears Tactics @ 4K Details
Gear Tactics was somewhat CPU limited with the higher-end cards at 1440P, but once we increased the resolution to 4K, the GeForce RTX 3080 was able to stretch its legs a bit, and dominate the rest of the field.
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Next up, we’ve got some benchmark scores from Far Cry New Dawn, the latest installment in the storied franchise. Like its predecessors, Far Cry New Dawn is a fast-action shooter set in an open world environment with lush visuals and high graphics fidelity. The game takes place in a fictional county in Montana, where a cult has taken over control of the area. We tested all of the graphics cards here at multiple resolutions using Ultra Quality settings to see how they handled this recently-released AAA title.
GeForce RTX 3080 FarCry New Dawn @ 4K Details
Like Gears Tactics, Far Cry New Dawn was somewhat CPU limited as well at 1440P, as evidenced by the small deltas separating the higher-end cards. Once the game's resolution was increased to 4K though, the GeForce RTX 3080 jumps out to another commanding lead, outpacing all of the other GPU, including the Titan RTX.
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In our final game test, we see more of the same -- at both resolutions, the GeForce RTX 3080 outruns all of the graphics cards we tested, by large margins. Even the Titan RTX finishes 21% behind the RTX 3080.
We've got one more data point to share as well. While we had Wolfenstein: Youngblood running, which offered relatively high framerates across all of the GPUs we tested, we used the LCAT device that's part of the new NVIDIA Reviewer Toolkit to capture some end-to-end latency characteristics. Note, this is NOT an NVIDIA reflex title, so there are no specific latency optimizations happening here. Framerates also directly correlate to end-to-end latency, so all other things being equal, the fastest cards should offer the best latency characteristics. And that is essentially what we saw.
These numbers are an average of 50 samples and, once again, the GeForce RTX 3080 puts up the best score of the bunch. Don't read too much into this one, though. We're presenting the data, since we captured it, as an interesting aside, but we're still experimenting and learning how to best incorporate LDAT into our future reviews.