The GeForce RTX 4080 will are available in two flavors when it launches subsequent month. On condition that the just-released RTX 4090 is just too wealthy for the blood of most folk, everybody’s been questioning how its smaller siblings evaluate. Effectively, the one individuals who can let you know that proper now are at NVIDIA, however thankfully, they’ve completed simply that. As a part of an article selling DLSS 3, the corporate produced some new numbers for the GeForce RTX 4080 playing cards.
There are 4 video games in NVIDIA’s article with new efficiency knowledge: Microsoft Flight Simulator, F1 22, A Plague Story: Requiem, and Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered. If these titles look acquainted from RTX 4090 protection (together with our personal), it is as a result of they’re all titles that assist DLSS 3 Body Era. In spite of everything, the purpose of the article is to advertise DLSS 3.
We’ve got to commend NVIDIA, although, as a result of the corporate is totally forthright with its knowledge. The efficiency of the playing cards with and with out DLSS is clearly-marked—though we might have appreciated to have seen knowledge for DLSS 2 on the brand new playing cards, since there are a lot of video games that assist DLSS 2 and never DLSS 3. With out additional ado, let’s try the information.
In Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered, we see each playing cards delivering non-DLSS efficiency in a spread that we might name “RTX 3090 Ti-like.” The RTX 4080 12GB card is available in ever-so-slightly behind the 450-watt Ampere monster, however that is hardly “unhealthy efficiency.” The extra notable factor right here is how far it’s behind the RTX 4080 16GB mannequin. That is sort of a pattern, as you may see.
Video games like A Plague Story: Requiem are in an uncommon place. It is not precisely an indie recreation, but it surely’s additionally not a AAA recreation. There was a thriving A-game and B-game market, however similar to the remainder of society, issues have polarized into the excessive and low. The last-gen playing cards do higher right here, with the RTX 4080 12GB card falling extra squarely behind the RTX 3090 Ti, whereas the RTX 4080 16GB solely barely outruns it with out DLSS.
In racing simulator F1 22, efficiency is extra just like that of Spider-Man‘s. As anticipated, the RTX 4080 12GB card good points extra from DLSS 3 than the older playing cards achieve from DLSS 2, but it surely’s nonetheless not operating far forward of the RTX 3090 Ti—and nicely behind its 16GB RTX 4080 sibling, particularly with DLSS on.
Lastly, in MS Flight Simulator, we see the brand new playing cards maintain their very own with out DLSS, and completely demolish the competitors with DLSS 3. That is fully anticipated, as the best good thing about DLSS 3 is its skill to work previous CPU bottlenecks. Flight Simulator is infamously CPU-limited even on top-end machines just like the Core i9-12900K that NVIDIA used for testing, so DLSS 3 reveals the largest profit right here.
Crew Inexperienced would in all probability desire that we targeted this information put up on the advantages of DLSS 3. To make certain, NVIDIA’s frame-generation expertise, which we have already coated intimately, is fairly wonderful. (If you would like extra data, you may watch the video above.) Nonetheless, The extra fascinating a part of the story for us is basically the efficiency differential between the 2 fashions of “RTX 4080” card.
We have additionally already written reams in regards to the nomenclature, as produce other shops, so we can’t go on about it once more right here. Nonetheless, these benchmarks actually serve to focus on the distinction within the two components regardless of each being named “RTX 4080.” Alternatively, it is very straightforward to have a look at these benchmarks—even with out DLSS—and say that circa-RTX 3090-performance for $900 is a good deal. Naturally we’ll need to put these components to the check to make a remaining conclusion, so look out for that subsequent month.
