

Not that it’s relevant to this review, per se, but 6GB GPUs don’t seem to fare too well in Arnold, as the RTX 2060 and the Sophie test can attest. In the E-Type render, the RTX 3080 was much quicker than TITAN RTX, and dramatically faster than the 2080 SUPER. Like a few others in this article, these charts really highlight the improvements seen since the 2080 Ti. NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti (11GB, GeForce 452.06)Īll product links in this table are affiliated, and help support our work.Īutodesk’s Arnold uses OptiX by default, which means any GPU that has RT cores will automatically have them exercised, leading to some great performance out of the top of the stack. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 (6GB, GeForce 452.06) NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER (8GB, GeForce 452.06) NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER (8GB, GeForce 452.06) NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER (8GB, GeForce 452.06) NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti (11GB, GeForce 452.06) For video encoding, don’t expect any significant gains right now unless you heavily use GPU-accelerated filters. We’ll get those other benchmarks tested in the meantime for a fuller look down-the-road. 2080 Ti) that it warranted full retesting of the stack. Something tells us that the performance gain will make that a non-issue.Īn important note on general creator performance: We quickly tested things like SPECviewperf, Adobe Premiere Pro, MAGIX Vegas Pro, and so on, but didn’t find the performance to be so notably different on the RTX 3080 (vs. While the RTX 3080 is going to prove itself to be a lot faster than the 2080 Ti, or even TITAN RTX, its TDP has been boosted, so you can expect a higher power drain from the wall. GTX 1080 Ti = Pascal GTX/RTX 2000 = Turing RTX 3000 = Ampere Here’s a breakdown of NVIDIA’s current lineup:ġ GDDR6X 2 GDDR6 3 GDDR5X 4 GDDR5 5 HBM2 We’re not sure if there will be a TITAN for this Ampere generation, but a 40GB option priced at $2,500~$2,999 released at some point seems plausible (to us).


In a single generation, NVIDIA took a card like the TITAN RTX, vastly improved its performance, kept the 24GB frame buffer, and dropped the price by $1,000. For creators, the biggest limitation of the RTX 3080 is going to be the 10GB frame buffer, although for most users, that will still be sufficient for a while, something helped by the fact that the Ampere’s memory architecture with GDDR6X is really efficient.įor top-end users, the RTX 3090 is likely to be a no-brainer. Even the TITAN RTX is about to be taught a harsh lesson.

Priced at $699, the RTX 3080 follows in the footsteps of the 2080 SUPER, but targets the 2080 Ti in performance.
