RTX 3080 VS 1080 Ti @ 4K Gameplay Benchmarks Comparison | 1080Ti vs 3080
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The 3000 series Ampere graphics cards are the first RTX and Raytracing generation to follow the initial Turning graphic cards, launched in 2018. Nvidia’s Turning cards have open the doors for developers to finally implement real time Raytracing into their games, and the results are spectacular.
I have a full list of the Best Raytracing Games available here, for you to check out. Not only that, the RTX platform also introduced DLSS, which has had mind blowing results in my benchmarks of the Best DLSS Games, doubling the performance of many of the gaming titles in 4K.
Ampere is set to take the foundation of what Turning started to the next level of performance and visual experience.
With that said, let’s see how the Nvidia RTX 3080 compares to the GTX 1080 Ti.
Nvidia’s new GeForce RTX 3080 is one of the most powerful consumer graphics cards ever made. An astounding 8,704 CUDA cores? Check. The muscle to push most games in 4K resolution with settings maxed out? Yup.
No question: Just about any gamer or power user would like to have an RTX 3080 card in their PC. But essentially no one is able to buy one right now. RTX 3080 cards are sold out everywhere, and Nvidia doesn't expect much joy on that front until 2021, at the soonest.
COVID-19 and shelter-in-place orders have left people with lots of indoor time on their hands, and many have turned to gaming and esports to fill the void. Indeed, at this writing, we were unable to find any of these RTX 3080 cards consistently in stock at any major etailer site. On the rare occasion one would show as available, the status would shift to "sold out" so quickly that it was hard to tell if the blip was just a website glitch.
Your best near-term strategy for getting an RTX 3080 (or big-sibling RTX 3090) card may be in a pre-built or configured system. For example, we saw the RTX 3080 available from Dell as part of its Alienware Aurora R11 gaming desktop. Your custom-PC order may take some time to arrive, but at least you can order it. Of course, not everyone needs or wants an all-new PC; if not, you’re stuck refreshing retailer sites day and night in the coming weeks, stalking the elusive 3080 prey.
That means, for now, the "best" RTX 3080 card to get might well just be whichever one you can actually find. But at some point stock levels will rise, and you'll have your choice of cards. And when that day comes, you'll need some guidance on which to get. We've scouted the two dozen or so discrete models announced so far, and outlined them in our card guide below. We've also tested three of them, linked below (from Nvidia itself, as well as Asus and MSI). In looking at all these cards, some patterns emerged across the board. So let's talk first about some key things to know as you compare RTX 3080 cards, before we get into the board nitty-gritty.