Nvidia RTX 3080 Founders Edition Review

Here we revisit Control, this time testing with the in-game ray tracing effects set to their highest values.

Improvements to the RT cores mean relative ray tracing performance is higher compared to Turing. Both the RTX 2080 Ti and RTX 3080 feature 68 RT Cores, and while the increased CUDA Core count helps performance, we can see the 3080 doing slightly better – relatively speaking – with RT turned on.

At 1440p, for instance, the RTX 3080 is 36% faster than the 2080 Ti when RT is turned on. With RT off, the 3080 is 32% faster. We can also see a marginally smaller performance hit when turning on the ray tracing effects – FPS drops by 40% for the RTX 3080, and 42% for the RTX 2080 Ti.

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