Ever since Nvidia officially unveiled the RTX 3080 (along with the RTX 3070 and RTX 3090), we've been desperately needing to know just how much of a gaming beast this new flagship graphics card is, and new benchmarks have popped up online that seem to show. that's all. Several early benchmarks have been put online (and compiled by VideoCardz), which claim to show the new GPU's OpenCL and CUDA benchmarks against the RTX 2080 and RTX 2080 Ti. While these benchmarks don't really show off the gaming potential of the new GPU, they do give us an idea of the kind of overall performance we can expect. However, it should be noted that these benchmarks have not been confirmed and do work on existing Nvidia GeForce drivers (456.6). Nvidia is likely to release new drivers when the RTX 3080 goes on sale on September 17, which should bring more performance improvements.
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As you can see in the benchmarks published by VideoCardz, the GeForce RTX 3080 is 68% faster on average than the RTX 2080 in CUDA benchmarks. It's also apparently 38% faster than the RTX 2080 Ti, previously Nvidia's top dog when it comes to gaming GPUs. However, while these results are impressive enough, in some tests the RTX 3080 was up to twice as fast as the RTX 2080 and around 60% faster than the RTX 2080 Ti. In OpenCL tests, the RTX 3080 performed brilliantly again, appearing to be up to 68% faster on average than the RTX 2080 and 41% faster than the RTX 2080 Ti. While this might not be the kind of performance leap that would be worth replacing your RTX 2080 Ti with an RTX 3080 for, it does suggest that the RTX 3080 will be a formidable card, and at $699 (£649), around AU$950), it launches at a much lower price than the RTX 2080 Ti. We'll be posting our full RTX 3080 review soon, where we'll really dig into the performance of this exciting new GPU. Today's best graphics card deals Sapphire Radeon 11265-05-20G ... XFX - AMD Radeon RX 580 GTS ... XFX Force Radeon RX 580 GTS ... Sapphire PULSE Radeon RX 580 ... Via Wccftech