Intel i9-10900k with Nvidia RTX 3080 | 11+ New Games Tested
2The RTX 3080 is an important product. For two years now, the pinnacle of PC graphics technology has been defined by the Turing-based RTX 2080 Ti. It's fast, very fast. It's so fast in fact, that there's a strong argument that any resolutions below ultra HD or high resolution ultrawide won't see the GPU horsepower fully utilised on anything other than the fastest gaming CPU. And yet the RTX 3080 takes everything to the next level - you're looking at an average range of 65 to 80 per cent more performance up against 2080, and around 24 to 37 per cent more grunt than 2080 Ti. With ray tracing factored into the equation, the boosts can be even more significant.
What we haven't really tested yet is how all of this combines with DLSS - the AI upscaling technology that has now matured to the point where not only can it replace TAA with big performance boosts, it can also improve image quality. Nvidia has shown the top-end RTX 3090 delivering titles like Wolfenstein Youngblood and Control running 8K ray traced experiences based on a new performance mode introduced with DLSS 2.1. I would hope to see this performance scaling used at lower resolutions to boost frame-rates still further should the player wish, but the nature of the frame-rate boosts delivered by Ampere is remarkable - increases in rasterisation performance, bigger upticks to ray tracing and then the DLSS multiplier on top of that. It's a compelling package.
TIMING
00:00 INTRO
00:13 FAR CRY 5
00:56 RED DEAD REDEMPTION 2
01:41 METRO EXODUS
02:26 BATTLEFIELD 5
03:09 ASSASSIN’S CREED VALHALLA
03:52 WATCH DOG LEGION
04:36 THE DIVISION 2
05:20 SHADOW OF THE TOMB RAIDER
06:04 GHOST RECON WILDLAND
06:41 FORTNITE
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