Nvidia RTX 3080: PCIe 4.0 vs 3.0 scaling analysis

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

As for Red Dead Redemption 2, we're heavily CPU bottlenecked at 1080p, and in fact the performance numbers from our AMD system didn't change at all as we increased the resolution to 1440p. The Intel system was 7% faster at that resolution.

At 4K, however, we see one of the very very few occasions where the AMD system with PCIe 4.0 outperforms our Intel machine. Granted, it's a difference of just 2FPS so let's not get carried away here, but it is a break in the overall trend we have seen today.

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