In my Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 review final week, we found that Nvidia’s tremendous duper new graphics card was about as quick as their GTX 1080Ti when paired with Intel’s Core i5-8600Ok CPU, representing solely the teensiest little bit of enchancment to your total frames per second output when you had been to bung one in your PC at the moment. That could effectively change as soon as we begin seeing extra games reap the benefits of the Nvidia’s intelligent speed-boosting AI-driven Turing tech, however till builders get their act collectively and begin patching in help for all of Turing’s best features, all we’ve acquired to go on proper now’s uncooked efficiency information.
With this in thoughts, I assumed I’d take a better take a look at how the RTX 2080 compares to its direct predecessor, the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080. The former may not symbolize a lot of a leap previous the GTX 1080’s souped up Ti cousin, however common 1080 house owners ought to see significantly better outcomes in comparison with what they’ll do now, notably in the case of gaming at 4K. Let’s have a look.
To see how every card stacks up, I’ve chucked 5 of at the moment’s hardest games at them: Final Fantasy XV, Monster Hunter: World, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Assassin’s Creed Origins and Middle-earth: Shadow of War. I’ve examined each GPUs at 1920×1080, 2560×1440 and, after all, 3840×2160 (4K) to see what sort of speeds are attainable throughout a spread of graphics settings and, most significantly, what that you must do to get a easy 60fps at every decision.
The playing cards in query are the Founders Edition of Nvidia’s RTX 2080 and Zotac’s GeForce GTX 1080 Amp Extreme version, the latter of which is without doubt one of the quickest GTX 1080s round, so it ought to provide you with a reasonably good concept of how the RTX 2080 compares to the cream of the crop over in 1080 Town. I’ve additionally used two inner benchmarks within the case of Assassin’s Creed Origins and Shadow of War, and for the remaining I’ve labored out the typical body fee from my in-game testing outcomes.
And what’s this? Actual graphs? Wonders won’t ever stop. Here’s what you’re taking a look at with all 5 games operating at excessive, if not max settings at 4K (Final Fantasy XV, by the best way, is with none of Nvidia’s fancy graphics settings enabled):
In most circumstances, you’re taking a look at a rise of round 10fps, which in these circumstances is sufficient to push one thing from being nearly playable to actually fairly snug. We’re nonetheless not taking a look at a gradual 60fps at 4K with the RTX 2080, all informed, however someplace within the 40-50fps area continues to be a heck of an enchancment over the 30-40fps you’ll get with a daily GTX 1080.
Moving on to 2560×1440, that is what you possibly can count on to see at max settings throughout the board. Barring a few solely minor enhancements, right here you’re taking a look at a tough enhance of round 15-20fps, permitting you to as a rule hit a flawless 60fps at this decision on the bestest finest settings with the RTX 2080 versus someplace across the 40-50fps mark on the GTX 1080.
Finally, at 1920×1080, you’re taking a look at the same soar in efficiency, albeit someplace within the zone of 10-15fps. Of course, the GTX 1080 is already a extremely succesful card at this decision, so these with common 60Hz displays gained’t get any profit right here in any way by choosing probably the most highly effective RTX 2080. Those with excessive refresh fee displays, nevertheless, will little question recognize the additional frames right here, because it means they’ll play at greater body charges with out compromising on picture high quality. The solely anomaly at this explicit decision is Assassin’s Creed Origins, which confirmed virtually no enchancment in any way.
Still, in each different circumstance you’re taking a look at a reasonably respectable velocity bump between these two playing cards, no matter your chosen decision. As we’ve mentioned in my RTX 2080 assessment, nevertheless, the one drawback is that these RTX scores are primarily nigh-on an identical to what you possibly can already get with the GTX 1080Ti, which proper now’s only a smidge cheaper than its new RTX-series cousin.
That quite places a little bit of a downer on the RTX 2080 outcomes, however it’s vital to recollect we’re additionally lacking considered one of Turing’s key elements proper now: Nvidia’s DLSS tech. As talked about briefly above, this makes use of AI to take a few of the load off the GPU within the edge-smoothening, anti-aliasing division, which might typically take fairly a toll on efficiency (*cough*Tomb Raider*cough*) when it’s left totally as much as the graphics card to determine tips on how to do it on a moment-to-moment foundation. Indeed, Final Fantasy XV and Shadow of the Tomb Raider have each been confirmed as DLSS-enabled games (as quickly as Square Enix get spherical to patching in help for them, that’s), so I’ll be very to see how a lot of a distinction it makes to my outcomes as soon as it’s obtainable to check in-game.
Is such theoretical greatness price spending all that more money on proper this very second? Probably not when you’re attempting to get the best graphics card for the least sum of money, particularly once we don’t have a transparent concept of what number of different upcoming games can be getting DLSS help as effectively additional down the road. If you possibly can afford to attend earlier than upgrading your graphics card, I’d positively advise doing so, if solely to see whether or not the worth of the GTX 1080Ti drops even additional to make it higher worth for cash.
