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Nvidia RTX 3080: PCIe 4.0 vs 3.0 scaling analysis

Control is an action-adventure video game developed by Remedy Entertainment and published by 505 Games. Control was released on 27 August 2019 for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. (Wikipedia).

Engine: Northlight Engine. We test using the High preset, with 4x MSAA, DX12 API.

Our first game of the day is Control, and here we do see some difference at 1080p. The 3900XT PCIe 4.0 system outperforms its PCIe 3.0 equivalent by 3%, while it has a 1% lead over the Intel system too.

These are fine margins though, and as we increase the resolution, the results only get tighter. At 1440p, there's just 2FPS separating all three systems, while that shrinks to just 1FPS at 4K.

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