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 Shadow of the Tomb Raider, this time testing with the in-game ray tracing effects set to their highest values.

In Shadow of the Tomb Raider, with ray traced shadows set to Ultra quality, we again see slightly better scaling against the 2080 Ti, than when RT is off.

At 1440p, for instance, the 3080 is 33% faster than the 2080 Ti with RT On. With RT off, the difference is 27%. As for 4K, here the 3080 outperforms the 2080 Ti by 36% when RT is on, compared to 33% when RT is off.

Overall, it's hard to fully pin-point how much of the increased ray tracing performance is down to the increased FP32 core count, and how much is down to the improvements to the RT core itself. Performance jumps from 30-40% certainly make playing games with RTX on that much more palatable, though.

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