MSI GeForce RTX 3080 SUPRIM X Video Card Review

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Ray Tracing RTX On DXR Logo

Ray Tracing MSI RTX 3080 SUPRIM X Performance

Now we will tackle Ray Tracing performance. The MSI GeForce RTX 3080 SUPRIM X is shown in three ways. It is shown with the SILENT DEFAULT BIOS mode, the GAMING BIOS mode, and the OVERCLOCKED performance. The abbreviation DFLT. stands for DEFAULT. The Radeon RX 6800 XT and GeForce RTX 3080 FE are at default settings. All games are using built-in benchmarks where possible, where not, a manual-run through is used.

Cyberpunk 2077 1440p

MSI GeForce RTX 3080 SUPRIM X video card review 1440p Ray Tracing Cyberpunk 2077

In Cyberpunk 2077 we are running the game at 1440p with “Ultra” Quick Preset and “Ultra” quality level Ray Tracing with all 3 Ray Tracing options turned on. DLSS is turned OFF. Turning on Ray Tracing takes a toll on performance. We see a little bit of a difference between the two BIOS modes here, about a 1FPS difference. This performance is faster than the GeForce RTX 3080 FE. When we overclock the MSI video card we gain 9% in performance. At 46FPS the gameplay is much more tolerable, so the MSI RTX 3080 SUPRIM X does offer a better experience with Ray Tracing. This game does not yet support Ray Tracing on the Radeon RX 6000 series, so we cannot include that.

Cyberpunk 2077 4K

MSI GeForce RTX 3080 SUPRIM X video card review 4K Ray Tracing Cyberpunk 2077

At 4K this game is unplayable with Ray Tracing enabled. We are very GPU bottlenecked, and so even the overclock doesn’t help us much. We do still see the same performance pattern though.

Watch Dogs Legion 1440p

MSI GeForce RTX 3080 SUPRIM X video card review 1440p Ray Tracing Watch Dogs Legion

In Watch Dogs Legion turning on Ray Tracing is a bit better than Cyberpunk. The game is actually playable on the overclocked MSI GeForce RTX 3080 SUPRIM X at 57FPS, it’s coming very close to averaging 60FPS and allows a good gameplay experience. Overclocking the MSI card is the ticket here for better performance with Ray Tracing. The Radeon RX 6800 XT fails pretty miserably with Ray Tracing performance in this game. The overclocked MSI card is 50% faster than the Radeon RX 6800 XT.

Watch Dogs Legion 4K

MSI GeForce RTX 3080 SUPRIM X video card review 4K Ray Tracing Watch Dogs Legion

Much like Cyberpunk 2077 though, at 4K performance is not playable with Ray Tracing. The overclock helps a little, but not much, we are very GPU bottlenecked. The AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT is about 39% slower.

Wolfenstein Youngblood 1440p

MSI GeForce RTX 3080 SUPRIM X video card review 1440p Ray Tracing Wolfenstein Youngblood

In Wolfenstein Youngblood you can turn on Ray Tracing with no problem at 1440p, the game performs extremely well. The MSI RTX 3080 SUPRIM X is 4% faster than the RTX 3080 FE. When overclocking the MSI card performance improves by 7%.

Wolfenstein Youngblood 4K

MSI GeForce RTX 3080 SUPRIM X video card review 4K Ray Tracing Wolfenstein Youngblood

You can also turn on Ray Tracing just fine at 4K, performance is still exceptional. In fact the overclocked MSI GeForce RTX 3080 SUPRIM X is pulling 100FPS at 4K with Ray Tracing enabled, think about that for a minute. What an amazing result.

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