Hardwareluxx has shared a new stack of GeForce RTX 30 Series slides that were previously under NDA. They provide quite a bit of technical insight on the GA102 and GA104 GPUs, which power the GeForce RTX 3090/3080 and GeForce RTX 3070, respectively. But there’s also new benchmarks for those of us who just want to know how they compare to their Turing counterparts.
Let’s start with the new flagship, the GeForce RTX 3080. According to NVIDIA, we can expect up to twice the performance of its predecessor at 4K. That means 2160p/60 FPS should be a cakewalk for the Ampere-based card. Even with ray-tracing enabled, the GeForce RTX 3080 can purportedly run Control and Minecraft at up to 80 FPS in 4K. That’s way better than the RTX 2080, which taps out at 40 FPS or so. And while Borderlands 3 falls short of the performance seen in Control and Minecraft, the GeForce RTX 3080 still manages to hit the 60 FPS target.
With the weaker GeForce RTX 3070, NVIDIA dials down to 1440p for comparison and claims a 1.6x performance leap over the GeForce RTX 2070. The RTX 3070 can run Control and Minecraft with RTX on at over 100 FPS without a problem in QHD, which signifies a nice jump in performance, especially when you consider the cost of the card ($499).
Lastly, we have a comparison between the meaty GeForce RTX 3090 “BFGPU” and TITAN RTX. Users with big wallets can expect a 50 percent improvement bump on average among games and creative apps with NVIDIA’s newest halo product. Another slide claims that the GeForce RTX 3090 can even hit or exceed 60 FPS in various titles without DLSS (the latest version of DLSS, DLSS 2.1, goes all the way up to 7680 x 4320 resolution).
Here’s a link to the rest of NVIDIA’s slides. The first of NVIDIA’s RTX 30 Series GPUs, the GeForce RTX 3080, will be released on September 17 for $699.