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Driver Notes
- All AMD GPUs were benchmarked with the Adrenalin 22.10.3 driver.
- All Nvidia GPUs (except RTX 4080) were benchmarked with the 526.61 driver.
- RTX 4080 was benchmarked with the 526.72 driver supplied to press.
It's important to note here that we are not re-using benchmark results from our day-1 RTX 4090 review. As we have previously covered, Nvidia's 522.25 driver has brought a number of performance optimisations to games including Cyberpunk 2077, Assassin's Creed Valhalla and Forza Horizon 5. By re-using data from our RTX 4090 review, where we tested 30-series GPUs with the 516.94 driver, our results would not take these new performance optimisations into account, and could potentially show a larger performance difference between the RTX 4080 and the 30-series than is actually the case. We re-tested all AMD and Nvidia GPUs on the latest drivers (as of 13th November) to ensure a level playing field, so we can present the most accurate data possible.
Benchmark results are only comparable where this exact configuration has been used.
Test System:
We test using a custom built system powered by MSI, based on Intel’s Alder Lake platform. You can read more about this system HERE and check out MSI on the CCL webstore HERE.
| CPU |
Intel Core i9-12900K
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| Motherboard |
MSI MEG Z690 Unify
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| Memory |
32GB (2x16GB) ADATA XPG Lancer DDR5 6000MHz
CL 40-40-40
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| Graphics Card |
Varies
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| SSD |
2TB MSI Spatium M480
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| Chassis | MSI MPG Velox 100P Airflow |
| CPU Cooler |
MSI MEG CoreLiquid S360
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| Power Supply |
Corsair 1200W HX Series Modular 80 Plus Platinum
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| Operating System |
Windows 11 Pro 21H2
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| Monitor |
MSI Optix MPG321UR-QD
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| Resizable BAR |
Enabled for all supported GPUs
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Comparison Graphics Cards List
- Sapphire RX 6950 XT Nitro+ 16GB
- AMD RX 6900 XT 16GB
- AMD RX 6800 XT 16GB
- Nvidia RTX 4090 Founders Edition
- Gigabyte RTX 3090 Ti Gaming 24GB
- Gigabyte RTX 3090 Eagle 24GB
- Nvidia RTX 3080 Ti Founders Edition 12GB
- Gigabyte RTX 3080 Eagle 10GB
All cards were tested at reference specifications.
Software and Games List
- 3DMark Fire Strike & Fire Strike Ultra (DX11 Synthetic)
- 3DMark Time Spy (DX12 Synthetic)
- 3DMark DirectX Raytracing feature test (DXR Synthetic)
- Assassin's Creed Valhalla (DX12)
- Cyberpunk 2077 (DX12)
- Days Gone (DX11)
- Dying Light 2 (DX12)
- Far Cry 6 (DX12)
- Forza Horizon 5 (DX12)
- God of War (DX11)
- Horizon Zero Dawn (DX12)
- Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered (DX12)
- Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition (DXR)
- Red Dead Redemption 2 (DX12)
- Resident Evil Village (DX12)
- Total War: Warhammer III (DX11)
We run each benchmark/game three times, and present mean averages in our graphs. We use FrameView to measure average frame rates as well as 1% low values across our three runs.
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