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

Both Control and Death Stranding support DLSS 2.0, so we test both at 4K with and without DLSS (using the Quality mode). We tested Control with RT set to High, while Death Stranding does not support RT features.

In both cases, the performance jump is healthy – Control gets by far the biggest FPS boost of the two, gaining an extra 84% compared to DLSS Off.

As for Death Stranding, the results aren't as impressive, with FPS increasing by 35%. This is actually slightly worse scaling than the 2080 Ti, which gets a 47% boost by enabling DLSS. We asked Nvidia about this and were told that scaling will taper out at higher FPS ‘due to the large amounts of data to handle.'

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