hey guys hope you’re all doing well today we’re taking a look at the nvidia rtx 3080 graphics cards i know i don’t usually do hardware techie stuff on this channel but i do like to make the odd exception when it’s a really cool piece of hardware and i think that the 3080 fits into that bracket because of the price and the performance so i was sent this review sample a couple weeks ago i’ve been using it in my system playing
all sorts of games now this isn’t going to be a incredibly detailed review with graphs and stats and all that stuff if you want that go watch linus tech tips or jc two cents eposvox this will be a review from somebody who plays a lot of games and creates a lot of video content the price of the 3080 at launch is 699 that’s around 650 quid in the uk compare that to what the 2080 ti cost which i think was around 1200 so quite
a significant difference there and to get to the chase based on my testing i was using a 2080 ti before i reckon it’s around 25 to 30 percent faster in 1440p gaming it’s definitely a significant leap and recently i picked up a 240hz 1440p monitor and honestly playing games on that on the 3080 is amazing it’s awesome i’ve been trying some games that i don’t usually play as well because there are some
Overview of the GeForce RTX 3080
features that this graphics card has like dlss which is ai super sampling in layman’s terms we’ve also got ray tracing features reflections that kind of stuff so i’ve been messing around with that too and we’re going to take a quick look at those things now some of you guys actually noticed and made comments on this when i was live streaming or when i’ve been uploading cod warzone videos i’ve had the frame rate
in the top left hand corner questioning how i was getting those frame rates at 1440p well that’s how i just had a 3080 in there so this is warzone maxed out at 1440p everything’s on the highest setting and i’m in downtown and we’re hitting around 135 to 140 fps in the downtown area usually the bit where you get the lowest fps really smooth looks great i don’t often play warzone on high settings so it was quite nice
to experience this of course when you go into the less populated areas where there’s not as much geometry going on your frame rates can go up to like 160 170 so it’s quite a big leap over the 2080 ti what i had before if you put everything on low obviously it’s going to look worse but you’ll get higher frame rates and your average will also be higher next up bf5 with ray tracing turned on and all of the
Gaming Performance and Frame Rates
settings maxed out at 1440p no dlss here so this is native 1440p performance i remember trying to do this on a 2080 ti it was not good low frame rates lots of stuttering but i mean this looks absolutely gorgeous doesn’t it this is rotterdam with all the rtx stuff on real-time ray trace reflections gorgeous looking game when you max it out and we’re averaging around 90 fps it’s pretty insane really and
here twisted steel it’s another map i love this swamp area with rtx turned on you get all the reflections off the water again frame rates significantly higher than they were on the 280ti and then i thought i’d show you this as well this is your classic rasterization performance 1440p so this is everything on low settings all the ray tracing effects turned off if you want to be super competitive get the best visibility lowest input
lag best performance a lot of people play on low settings i play in low settings usually especially on warzone and you see it speaks for itself really doesn’t it 180 to 200 fps it’s mad absolutely mad in terms of dlss well this is magic as far as i’m concerned it’s more performance and sometimes it actually looks better than the native resolution so this is in games like death stranding amazing looking games
just been released on pc i don’t think you actually need dlss for death stranding because it runs at like 150 160 fps at 440p anyway but you turn on dlss and you do see a boost in performance there when it’s in motion i don’t think you can really tell any difference especially on the quality preset but there’s definitely a frame rate boost there they just put this in fortnight as well along with a load of other ray tracing and lighting features like global illumination so i thought you know what i’ll test that out as
well so fortnite 1440p with everything turned on it’s all on ultra all the new ray tracing features maxed out in this particular area i was getting around 40 to 50 fps but then you go ahead and turn dlss on and you’re getting 70 fps so you’re getting about 30 more frames per second so that goes from being for me unplayable at 40 to playable at 60 to 70. and like i said i can’t really see a difference in the image quality
Power Usage and Cooling System
here and i was taking screenshots and zooming in on photoshop and sometimes the dlss image looked better than the native image which i was just scratching my head up and here’s control 1440p maxed out control has some awesome looking ray tracing effects averaging around 60 to 70 fps native and then you turn the lss on and that frame rate starts to creep up again with no loss to image quality as far as i’m concerned so it’s a really cool tech that i think most developers will probably want in their pc
games going forward yeah so the performance is pretty nuts compared to a 2080 ti i think if you’ve got a 2080 this will be a significant leap in performance especially if you’re playing at 1440p or 4k i would say if you only game at 1080p and you’ve already got a 2080 ti maybe it’s not worth the upgrade i suppose that depends on how much you could sell it for but if you’re playing at 1440p this card just kills it man and as i said it’s so nice to play 240 hertz 1440p minimal input lag if i wanted to i could just max everything out
and have a great time now in terms of the content creation stuff the nvidia cards are incredibly useful to me because you can use the nvenk codec which is a hardware chip on the cards themselves which does video encoding and i use that to record all of my videos to do my live streams i use a free program called obs and that supports the nvent codec and when you watch some of my videos like the recent
warzone videos where i’ve had the frame rate in the top left hand corner i’m doing that all off one pc so i’m playing the game at 1440p whilst recording with obs at 1440p and using a 75 000 bitrate the quality is brilliant i lose about 10 frames per second on average but when you’re hitting such a high frame rate anyway that doesn’t really matter so in terms of my workflow for recording and streaming it’s a godsend for me because it means i can just hit record i don’t notice that i’m recording and i end up with
a video file that looks really good also i use nvent to render my videos too i use a program called vegas other people use premiere you can use the invent codec there too and i’m rendering my 1440p videos at 40 000 bit rate and they render quicker than real time than the length of the video unfortunately i didn’t have access to overclocking tools before today so i didn’t really want to include any of that in this video obviously if you’re overclocking you’ll be able to squeeze even more performance out of these and
Verdict: Is the RTX 3080 Worth It?
the custom partner boards that they’ve revealed i think asus msi evga they’ve already shown off their custom versions of the 3080 and even the 1390 which is coming out soon i don’t have a 3090 i can’t wait to see the kind of performance that will get though but you’ll definitely be able to squeeze more
out of these cars if you overclock them as i said this is all just standard clock speed standard boost core voltage all that stuff so when you get one of these when they’re out when they have overclocking tools expect more performance than this it’s nuts in conclusion from my experience it’s a very impressive
piece of hardware at that price as well which let’s be honest no one expected i think it’s an attractive prospect especially if you’re upgrading from a card that’s maybe two to three years old now so there it is like i said i’m sorry i couldn’t offer you an incredibly detailed techy look at this go check out those other channels if you want that do let me know your thoughts down in the comments below if you enjoyed the video leave a like if you didn’t a dislike subscribe for more and i’ll see you in the next one you
