Gameplay Performance
We are going to focus on the 4K gameplay performance with the Overclocked NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Founders Edition video card. We will include DLSS and FSR performance on the same graph in the games that are supported. We will use DLSS on NVIDIA GPUs and FSR on AMD GPUs. Ray Tracing performance will be shown on a separate page. For video card comparisons we are using an AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX and XT video card and an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti FE video card.
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2.0
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2.0 was released on October 27, 2022, on the PC and uses the IW 9.0 gaming engine. The game supports all upscaling methods, including NVIDIA DLSS, NVIDIA Image Scaling, AMD FSR 1.0, AMD Fidelity FX CAS, and Intel XeSS. We use the highest quality option of each. We customize every graphics setting to the maximum value for the best image quality and enable everything. We use the built-in benchmark.
In Call of Duty Modern Warfare II, we are running the game at 4K and maximum graphics settings. The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Founders Edition is very playable at 96FPS at 4K, providing a smooth and playable gameplay experience. Overclocking the video card improves performance by a small 4%, and brings it to 100FPS, not changing the experience, but just providing a few extra frames per second. We also see DLSS improve in performance by 5% and giving us 136FPS when overclocked, with DLSS. The GeForce RTX 4080 FE overclocked, is 33% faster than the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti, but the two Radeon RX 7900 XT and XTX video cards are faster in this game, but the 7900 XT is the closest one to the overclocked RTX 4080.
F1 2022
F1 2022 was released on June 28th, 2022 on the PC and uses Codemasters Ego engine. The game supports Ray Tracing, DLSS, AMD FidelityFX, and FSR. We are going to run the game with the highest quality settings of “Ultra High” and TAA+FidelityFX. We will enable DLSS and FSR as needed at the Quality setting for both. We will utilize the built-in benchmark in the Imola track, in dry conditions with a far-chasing cam.
In F1 2022 we are running at 4K and maximum graphics settings, the GeForce RTX 4080 FE is able to give us a very playable gameplay experience at 158FPS. Overclocking the video card pushes performance up 6% and brings it to 167FPS. We can also see that DLSS improves performance to 200FPS, and with overclocking takes it up another 4% beyond 200FPS. When overclocked, the GeForce RTX 4080 FE is 11% faster than the Radeon RX 7900 XT and 18% faster than the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti FE. The Radeon RX 7900 XTX is 4% faster than the overclocked RTX 4080 FE.
Dying Light 2
Dying Light 2 was released in February 2022 on the PC and uses Techland’s C-Engine. The game supports Ray Tracing, DLSS and FSR2. We use the built-in preset to set “HIGH QUALITY” which sets the highest game graphics, without Ray Tracing. We manually enable DX12 and ASYNC Compute. We use the built-in benchmark.
In Dying Light 2 we can run the game at 4K with the highest settings, sans ray tracing, on the GeForce RTX 4080 FE and get 96FPS, for a super smooth gameplay experience. At this performance level, the GeForce RTX 4080 is 2% faster than the Radeon RX 7900 XTX and 23% faster than the Radeon RX 7900 XT, and 11% faster than the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti FE. Overclocking the RTX 4080 FE improved performance by 5%, and brought it over 100FPS at 4K. DLSS also gets an improvement from overclocking, 5%, and gets us to 150FPS at 4K. When overclocked, the RTX 4080 FE is 7% faster than the Radeon RX 7900 XTX and 29% faster than the Radeon RX 7900 XT.
Cyberpunk 2077
Cyberpunk 2077 was released in December 2020 and uses the REDengine 4. We have the game patched to version 1.61 and utilize the built-in benchmark. We test using the Graphics Preset option to set graphics settings, mainly “Ultra”. This game supports DLSS and FSR2.
Cyberpunk 2077 is very playable at 4K and “Ultra” settings on the GeForce RTX 4080 FE which can provide 65FPS. Overclocking the GeForce RTX 4080 FE improves performance by 4% and brings it to 68FPS. Overclocking improves DLSS performance by 3%. When overclocked, the RTX 4080 FE is 14% faster than the Radeon RX 7900 XT and 18% faster than the RTX 3090 Ti FE. The Radeon RX 7900 XTX is 3% faster than the overclocked RTX 4080 FE.
Watch Dogs Legion
Watch Dogs Legion was released on the PC in October of 2020 and uses the Disrupt game engine. We utilize the built-in benchmark for testing. We have the HD Texture pack installed and enabled for testing. We use the built-in graphics preset of “Ultra” for testing. This game supports DLSS upscaling.
In Watch Dogs Legion we are able to play this game very smoothly at 4K and “Ultra” settings at 87FPS on the GeForce RTX 4080 FE. Overclocking the RTX 4080 FE improved performance by 5% and brought it to 91FPS. We also saw a performance increase of 3% with DLSS. When overclocked, the RTX 4080 FE is 11% faster than the Radeon RX 7900 XT and 26% faster than the RTX 3090 Ti FE. The Radeon RX 7900 XTX is 7% faster than the overclocked RTX 4080 FE.