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 Metro Exodus, this time testing with the in-game ray tracing effects set to their highest values.

Metro Exodus sees better performance scaling when RT is turned on, compared to Control. At 1440p, the 3080 is 43% faster than the 2080 Ti with RT set to Ultra, while the difference between the two GPUs is 28% when RT is turned off.

At 4K, the 3080 increases its lead with RT on, to 45% over the 2080 Ti. The gain for the RTX 3080, with RT turned off, is 30%.

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