Just few hours ago, NVIDIA showcased the RTX 3080 GPU being faster by 55-70% as compared to the RTX 2080Ti in Doom Eternal, which was running in Ultra Nightmare settings, and the RTX 3080 easily outperformed the RTX 2080 Ti by a fair margin.
Now one employee of Nvidia has shared some more performance metrics for the RTX 3080 GPU. During a recent Q&A session, Nvidia’s director of GeForce product management, Justin Walker, shared some additional gaming FPS numbers for the RTX 3080 Ampere graphics card.
First off, when asked about the current 10GB VRAM capacity of the RTX 3080 being insufficient, Justin replied that the goal of the RTX 3080 is to provide a decent performance in games at up to 4K resolution with all settings cranked to the max. According to him Nvidia is trying to provide gamers a flagship GPU at a much reasonable price than previous generation of cards. And as we know the Founders Edition RTX 3080 will cost $699 USD. For $699, the RTX 3080 offers a much better price/performance ratio over the RTX 2080 TI GPU, which costs north of $1000 USD.
Justin pointed out that Nvidia is constantly analyzing the GPU memory requirements of the latest AAA games, and the company is reviewing this with the game developers as well, in order to better understand the memory needs for the current and upcoming PC games.
Coming back to the Q&A, Justin provided some examples of latest games in which he mentions the RTX 3080 is able to deliver 60-100 FPS in several AAA titles at 4K resolution with everything maxed out (including any high-resolution texture packs and RTX ON, as applicable). He mentioned the following titles, Shadow of The Tomb Raider, Assassins Creed: Odyssey, Wolfenstein: Youngblood, Gears of War 5, Borderlands 3, Metro Exodus & Red Dead Redemption 2. And the RTX 3080 appears to be using anywhere from 4GB to 6GB of the video card memory in these games at 4K. Though, Nvidia did not mention whether they also used DLSS in this same testing.
Justin also added that extra VRAM is always better to have in any GPU, but doing this increases the cost of the card, since GDDR6X memory isn’t cheap either. So if suppose the card has more VRAM, the higher would be the selling price of any GPU, which logically makes sense.
[Justin Walker] “We’re constantly analyzing memory requirements of the latest games and regularly review with game developers to understand their memory needs for current and upcoming games. The goal of 3080 is to give you great performance at up to 4k resolution with all the settings maxed out at the best possible price.
In order to do this, you need a very powerful GPU with high speed memory and enough memory to meet the needs of the games. A few examples – if you look at Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, Metro Exodus, Wolfenstein Youngblood, Gears of War 5, Borderlands 3 and Red Dead Redemption 2 running on a 3080 at 4k with Max settings (including any applicable high res texture packs) and RTX On, when the game supports it, you get in the range of 60-100fps and use anywhere from 4GB to 6GB of memory. Extra memory is always nice to have but it would increase the price of the graphics card, so we need to find the right balance”. via Reddit
This RTX 3080 GPU rocks 8704 CUDA cores and 10GB of GDDR6X memory, over a 320-bit bus width. In addition to the CUDA cores, the card also packs next-gen RTX cores (Ray-Tracing), Tensor cores, and a brand new SM or streaming multi-processor unit.
The NVIDIA GeForce Founders Edition RTX 3080 will be launching on the 17th of September, 2020.
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i’ll believe it when i see it.
Same here.
Nice! So they first employ price-gouging tactics for the entire lineup of GPUs and when that lineup doesn’t sell as well as they’d hoped they change their tune and drop prices down a bit at the same time still leaving a possibility to release better enhanced versions of GPUs with better specs. AND they position themselves as the good guys that care about customers’ wallets.
What greedy hypocrites they are. To me it just Turing lineup 2.0 launch – release underpowered underwhelming GPUs and then one year later launch Super models with better specs.
eh…. they were the first rtx cards. usually new technology is more expensive when first released. thats the price new adopters always face.
Who gives a F*K about what they say in their marketing statements? Either it’s a well priced product or it isn’t, this time it is.
Speak for yourself, Adolf.
good lord you are a freaking dimwit. how in the hell are these cards “underpowered underwhelming”?
The 20 rtx series was a door opener just like the first texture accelerated 3d units was… or the first hardware shader ones was…. They all had miserable performance in their new areas and costed alot. If someone expected a chip with that kind of transistor budget allocation to perform above what they got in raster+ and be a great price perf in raster i have to say they were quite mad and out of the loop with tech. Mine served well over the almost 2 years and were a top card no matter what.
This is gen 2 and now it starts to matter as the door opener have been successful, everyone is on the rt bandwagon (alltho its rt hybrid raster still)
All the games he mentioned are last generation. I’m definitely worried about 10GB not being enough once next gen games are the norm.
It really comes down to how well a game is coded dealing with the software developers. Not everybody is ID Software for example. I just can’t wait to see what CyberPunk looks like with it all turned on. Running on my own PC and not with youtubes compression 😀
for some reason i always find youtube videos have a bit of a blur/brightness too high for any game direct feed videos. looks terrible
Lossy Compression don’t help details that’s for sure and some tubers who over-saturate things is another issue that’s far to common with game streaming. Shame really, would defiantly benefit the PC to have more quality in the streams as the differences would be easily spotted (like they are on screen)
But you know, as long games are crap, and look like carton that don’t even push the gpu or even the CPU, the fake ” gamers” will be okay with it, some of the example of stupid games i can think of is ” fortnite” and other cartoonish games out there.
Lemme guess… but games like Warhammer are REAL games yeah…? Because Warhammer is a Graphical showpiece game yeahhh!???!!?!? ????????????
Cyber Punk is going to flop hard. It might sell well, but the game will be crap. The launch will be just as buggy or worse than the Witcher 3.
i get well over 60fps at 4k ultra in doom eternal with my rtx2080, the 3080 is for true next gen games.
“NVIDIA claims that the RTX3080 can deliver 60-100fps in 4K/Max settings and with RTX in Minesweeper…” ??? <—– FIXED!
until the meager 10gb of vram run out and then you are in stutterville
Digital Foundry had an interesting pre-event video where they showed off the increase in % between 2080 to 3080 in a bunch of titles. Could very well be the truth, the 3080 seemed to range between 160-200% performance of the 2080 (ie 60-100% increase which is frankly INSANE).
That said it was in select titles so want to see broader tests in more titles / reses / cpu / mb (pcie3 and pcie4) combos.
Remember that poor 2Gb GTX 690 when PS4 launched ???
They are doing it again ? This price cut is a scam ? Your GPU won’t last.
I had 680 2gb, strong card but it was useless for modded Skyrim and Fallouts
I am more interested to know if the 3090 can run 4K with 120fps on max settings
Digital Foundry just released a video showcasing ~75-90% bump in performance compared to RTX 2080 in a few RTX enabled games…though the games were chosen by Nvidia, they were given freedom to tinker with all settings as they wanted. Its quite amazing performance gain over prev gen.
He pretty much ignored the question why 10 and not 12 or 14 or 16, the reason why is probably, because they don’t do sufficient games benchmarks to determine how much VRAM will be required in the future as some utterly broken ports consume over 8 and others less than 6, so 8 should be the minimum nowadays for 4K, especially if you plan on gaming latest titles or he had to shut his mouth, due to buggies spying the conversation.
how long till John gets the 3090 and we start seeing news articles saying “RTX3090 Can’t Run Cyberpunk 2077 at 8k60fps”
So skip on the 4k, get a nice 144hz+ monitor and play at 1440p. Got it. 4k is pointless and wastes resources.