My card arrived a little while ago, so I unboxed it and got it installed. First impressions are it’s actually lower profile than my 1080 Ti which surprised me, and about the same length. It installed with no hassle and has even less chance to lag than the Ti, which itself lagged not at all.
I had run some benchmarks on a few games I typically own that I consider “hard to max out” meaning I can’t get 144fps with my 1080 Ti AND they have some sort of benchmarking utility built in, because I’m lazy. I ran each with a variety of settings pre- and post-installation of the 3080, here are the results:
This thing was running an average of 50C in idle and hitting up to 75 or so in games until I launched MSI Afterburner and just used the default fan curve, which then dropped it immediately to the low 30’s and even the high 20’s while it was just on the desktop. This isn’t with me watching any video content or doing much of anything, so I’m guessing 29 isn’t really the resting temp, but it’s looking to be low to mid 30’s. Which is actually just about the same as my Ti, though it never rested in the low 30’s with the Afterburner fan profile.
I was shocked at how terrible DX12 continues to be for Warhammer 2. There seems to be no reason to be running in it - the game neither supports DLSS nor Ray Tracing and you just get worse performance and (iirc) stability issues. I’m very pleased as punch to report that even with Extreme Shadows and 8x Anti Aliasing at 1440p I’m seeing an average of 65 fps in battles. Of course, these are fun for benchmarking, but Extreme Shadows and 8X AA at 1440p are pretty silly settings that really don’t give as much enjoyment as 120fps does, so I reverted those settings back to the basic “Ultra Preset” and will continue to play that one in DX11.
I did enjoy playing with DLSS in the Shadows of the Tomb Raider demo - it coupled with Ray Tracing pretty well (no reason not to, I gained a 10% performance boost and it looked just as good as when I didn’t have DLSS running, if not better?) and it was fun to play with Ray Tracing enabled. Well, “play” meaning I watched the Benchmark tool like five times.
For Metro I didn’t enable DLSS - I heard someone say the DLSS was still 1.0 and not great on this so I didn’t bother - but I did try with Ray Tracing and it looks phenomenal while giving me excellent performance.
Anyway, that’s about all I had time for, then I had to get back to the office. I’ll poke at it some more tonight!
Rock8man
6015
In the presentation it was presented as an 8K gaming card. Don’t forget that part of it.
Awesome benchmarks Scott, thanks so much for doing it.
Looks like a keeper, yes? Are you happy with it?
One question, you have Warhammer 2: Battles listed twice, once with lower frames and then higher. I don’t own the game- are these two different benchmarks?
Argh!! Mine was shipping 7 October, now changed to 11 November. Pray they don’t alter it any further… :(
It’s certainly faster than my 1080 Ti - even in the most modest of upgrades it was 30% faster and then some, and often close to 100% faster (such as in the case of Shadow of the Tomb Raider sans RTX). EDIT: Oh, plus of course the ability to now use RTX and/or DLSS, which is probably the more important point of the upgrade than more FPS in my existing titles.
stusser
6020
Yeah, should be ~60% faster in pretty much everything. 1080ti is basically the same as the 2080, after all.
stusser
6021
Just had that zotac 3080 in my cart at Newegg but I passed. I possess the purity of my convictions, sirrah!
dgallina
6022
Congrats Scott! Seriously. The rest of (almost) all of us will live vicariously for now.
It’s nearly a week later and the stock situation has improved fuck-all despite NVidia’s claims to the contrary.
Diego
Nesrie
6023
Don’t do it! Even if it comes up again. You’ll especially regret it, probably more than most.
That’s weird with the Anno results. All the benchmarks I’ve seen recently have shown it to be very CPU limited and never getting much above 60fps.
I did have a bit of a typo there, 109 is the actual result, but yeah. 109fps @1440p is what I’m getting.
Huh. Here’s TechPowerUp, for instance:
That’s odd. I have been getting in the 70-80 range since I first started playing it on my 1080 Ti, I’d have been ver livid to lose FPS with the new card, haha.
stusser
6028
Oh I won’t. Can’t be stuck with a card inferior to the reference.
Differing CPU’s? Some strange wild difference between the FE and Scott’s EVGA card? Who knows? I can run Anno 1800 in 1440p over 70fps with a regular GTX 1080, so that benchmark is weird to me.
stusser
6031
The 3080 is CPU limited below 4k, straight-up.
I may have to investigate their set up.
Editer
6033
Where are you seeing ship dates? Is this with the retailers you’ve preordered from?
Connection, HP’s US retailer, is just saying “Fall.” So that means, um, before Dec. 21?
