Nvidia Benchmarks Present 4080 12GB As much as 30% Slower Than 16GB Mannequin

Nvidia has posted (opens in new tab) its first official efficiency numbers for its GeForce RTX 4080 12GB and GeForce RTX 4080 16GB graphics playing cards. The model with 16GB of reminiscence seems to be 21% – 30% sooner than its 12GB counterpart. In the meantime, Nvidia’s earlier technology flagship GeForce RTX 3090 Ti continues to be sooner than the GeForce RTX 4080 12GB — no less than with none DLSS enabled. 

Nvidia in contrast its newest GeForce RTX 40-series graphics playing cards (together with the flagship GeForce RTX 4090) in opposition to one another and in opposition to its previous-generation GeForce RTX 30-series merchandise in Microsoft Flight Simulator, A Plague Story: Requiem, and F1 22. 

The comparability centered totally on efficiency benefits offered by the corporate’s newest DLSS 3 expertise (with optical multi body technology, decision upscaling, and Nvidia Reflex), however the Nvidia additionally included efficiency numbers with none enhancements. Moreover, it included its first official GeForce RTX 4080 12GB and GeForce RTX 4080 16GB efficiency comparability. 

Historically, Microsoft’s Flight Simulator video games are robust on each CPUs and GPUs and the newest model isn’t any exception. Each DLSS 2 and DLSS 3 carry vital efficiency uplift to the sport, however so does Nvidia’s new Ada Lovelace GPU structure (maybe courtesy of enhanced ray tracing efficiency). 

With DLSS 3 on, the GeForce RTX 4080 16GB is 21% sooner than the GeForce RTX 4080 12GB; with out DLSS 3 the 16GB model is 26% sooner than the 12GB. The GeForce RTX 4080 12GB provides the identical efficiency because the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti 24GB with out DLSS 3 — not dangerous in any respect, and that is nonetheless one of many finest gaming graphics playing cards at the moment.