NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Gaming At 4K, Ultrawide & With RTX On

3DMark: DX11 & DX12 Performance

3DMark tends to be a great solution for showing the best-case scenario of a GPU, and that doesn’t change with the RTX 3080. Across these DX12 and DX11 tests, the RTX 3080 performs at least 50% better than the 2080 SUPER. With Time Spy’s 4K test, the 3080 proves 26% better than the TITAN RTX.

3DMark: RT, DLSS & VRS Performance

As mentioned before, we’re planning to dive into more RTX-specific testing down the road, having focused primarily on ray tracing on the previous page. 3DMark still gives us a great way to test specific features on their own, though.

With the Port Royal test, the RTX 3080 leaps 63% ahead of the 2080S, and 24% ahead of TITAN RTX. The DLSS test gives us similar gains, with RTX 3080 proving 59% better than 2080S, and places 22% ahead of TITAN RTX.

The VR tests show the biggest gains gen-over-gen here. The Tier 1 test shows a staggering 87% improvement over the 2080 SUPER, and 34% over the TITAN RTX. The Tier 2 test shows reduced gains, but they’re still really impressive: 3080 scores 53% higher than 2080 SUPER.

Superposition: 1080p & 4K Performance

We probably didn’t need another synthetic benchmark to tell us what we already know, but it’s good to be thorough, right? In Superposition, the RTX 3080 outperforms the 2080 SUPER by 54% with both these 1080p and 4K profiles.

Wfrapping our gaming review, on the next page we look at power and temperature, as well as our closing thoughts on the RTX 3080 launch.