Nvidia RTX 3080 Founders Edition Review

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

In Shadow of the Tomb Raider, with ray traced shadows set to Ultra quality, we again see slightly better scaling against the 2080 Ti, than when RT is off.

At 1440p, for instance, the 3080 is 33% faster than the 2080 Ti with RT On. With RT off, the difference is 27%. As for 4K, here the 3080 outperforms the 2080 Ti by 36% when RT is on, compared to 33% when RT is off.

Overall, it's hard to fully pin-point how much of the increased ray tracing performance is down to the increased FP32 core count, and how much is down to the improvements to the RT core itself. Performance jumps from 30-40% certainly make playing games with RTX on that much more palatable, though.

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