Gigabyte RTX 3090 Eagle OC Review

Red Dead Redemption 2 is a 2018 action-adventure game developed and published by Rockstar Games. The game is the third entry in the Red Dead series and is a prequel to the 2010 game Red Dead Redemption. Red Dead Redemption 2 was released for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in October 2018, and for Microsoft Windows and Stadia in November 2019. (Wikipedia).

Engine: Rockstar Advance Game Engine (RAGE). We test by manually selecting High settings, not using a preset, including TAA, Vulkan API.

Read Dead Redemption 2 brought about some interesting results. It would seem at 4K, using High settings, the RTX 3090 is limited by something other than its GPU horsepower – here it's just 6% faster than the RTX 3080 Founders Edition, while this gap is even smaller when compared to some of the factory overclocked RTX 3080s we have tested.

I wondered if this was a result of using High settings, and that is certainly part of it – when we retested using Ultra settings, the 3090 is more like 10 or 11% faster than the RTX 3080 at 4K. It’s still not as big a difference as we have seen from the other games we have tested, but it’s something to be aware of, and we will be re-testing the rest of our GPUs with Ultra settings going forward, to make sure we’re not hitting bottlenecks elsewhere.

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