![]() ![]() In short, I believe the vanilla RTX 3080 has more than enough oomph for playing games at 4K at the moment, as you're just not getting that much extra by opting for the Ti. Only by a couple of frames, mind, but it just goes to show that with a relatively modest PC like mine, the RTX 3080 Ti isn't always going to produce the fastest results. Of course, throw DLSS into the mix with Cyberpunk and you're looking at well over 60fps on max settings in both instances, although my benchmark results actually had the regular RTX 3080 ahead of the Ti in my manual gameplay test. At best you're looking at a lead of around 8fps, but at worst you're only going to get around half of that - as we can see in Cyberpunk 2077. Once again, though, the RTX 3080 Ti isn't that far ahead of the normal RTX 3080. I haven't included Shadow Of The Tomb Raider or The Witcher III in this graph, as both cards were already capable of hitting well over 60fps in the latter, and were pretty much there in the former, too (and can certainly get well over the 60fps mark once you knock Tomb Raider's anti-aliasing settings down a peg). This is especially true once you drop the settings down to High, where both the RTX 30 Ti can hit at least 60fps on nearly every game going - with the exception of Cyberpunk 2077. If you've got one of these 60Hz screens, you're really not getting much benefit from the RTX 3080 Ti at all, as both cards will feel completely identical for anything at 60fps or above. Most of today's best 4K gaming monitors do have high refresh rates, admittedly, but more affordable screens are usually capped at a regular 60Hz. It's the kind of difference you'd be unlikely to actually spot in your moment-to-moment gameplay, and you'd also only 'see' that 10fps in The Witcher III if you had a 4K monitor with a high refresh rate, too. Older games, such as The Witcher III, give the RTX 3080 Ti an avearge lead of around 10fps, but in newer titles is much smaller, often only reaching around 5-6fps in my benchmark results or, in the case of Assassin's Creed Valhalla, a lead of just 2fps. Starting with how the RTX 3080 and RTX 3080 Ti perform at 4K on Ultra / Max settings in today's biggest blockbusters, we can see that, in most cases, the RTX 3080 Ti is only a fraction ahead of its vanilla sibling. With all that in mind, then, let's take a look at some lovely bar charts. There are plenty of other, usually much cheaper graphics cards out there, such as the RTX 3060, that offer more than enough performance at 1080p, and I'd also recommend sticking with an RTX 3070 or AMD's Radeon RX 6700 XT for playing games at 1440p, too, as anything more is just plain old overkill. I haven't included any 1080p results here because, let's be honest, you shouldn't be buying either of these cards for 1080p gaming. Since these are Nvidia's flagship RTX gaming GPUs, I've focused primarily on how they perform playing games at 4K in this article, but I've also included some 1440p results with some added RTX 3070 figures so you can see exactly how much extra performance you're getting over Nvidia's second-tier of GPUs. These games include a mix of blockbusters from the last couple of years: Shadow Of The Tomb Raider, Total War: Three Kingdoms, Final Fantasy XV, Monster Hunter: World, Assassin's Creed Valhalla, The Witcher 3, Metro Exodus and Cyberpunk 2077. As for the rest of my PC specs, I paired both cards with my usual Intel Core i5-10600K processor and 16GB of Corsair Vengeance Pro RGB RAM and put them head to head in my suite of graphics benchmarks, taking an average frame rate from their own built-in benchmarking tools or from my own repeatable manual gameplay tests.
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