Nvidia RTX 3080 Founders Edition Review

1. Introduction2. The Ampere Architecture3. RTX 3080 Founders Edition4. Testing Methodology5. 3DMark Fire Strike & Time Spy6. 3DMark Port Royal7. Control8. Death Stranding9. The Division 210. Far Cry New Dawn11. Gears 512. Ghost Recon: Breakpoint13. Metro Exodus14. Middle Earth: Shadow of War15. Red Dead Redemption 216. Shadow of the Tomb Raider17. Total War Saga: Troy18. Performance Summary (11 Game Average)19. Cost Per Frame Analysis20. RTX On - Control21. RTX On - Metro Exodus22. RTX On - Shadow of the Tomb Raider23. DLSS On - Control & Death Stranding24. A Word on VRAM Usage25. Clock Speed26. Temperatures27. Acoustics28. Power Consumption29. Performance Per Watt Analysis30. Overclocking: Memory Scaling31. Closing Thoughts32. View All Pages

Here we revisit Control, this time testing with the in-game ray tracing effects set to their highest values.

Improvements to the RT cores mean relative ray tracing performance is higher compared to Turing. Both the RTX 2080 Ti and RTX 3080 feature 68 RT Cores, and while the increased CUDA Core count helps performance, we can see the 3080 doing slightly better – relatively speaking – with RT turned on.

At 1440p, for instance, the RTX 3080 is 36% faster than the 2080 Ti when RT is turned on. With RT off, the 3080 is 32% faster. We can also see a marginally smaller performance hit when turning on the ray tracing effects – FPS drops by 40% for the RTX 3080, and 42% for the RTX 2080 Ti.

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