MSI GeForce RTX 3080 Gaming X Trio Review

October 1, 2020 | 14:00

Tags: #ampere #ga102 #gaming-x-trio #gpu #graphics-card #overclock #rtx #rtx-3080

Companies: #msi #nvidia

Far Cry New Dawn

Our second DX11 game relies on Ubisoft's Dunia 2 engine that's exclusive to this popular shooter franchise. Using the game's built-in benchmark, we test with the game's own Ultra preset, and we have also installed the HD Textures pack, which we enable for testing. We do not rely on the benchmark's metrics, instead using OCAT to capture the data we need.

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Posted by monty-pup - Thu Oct 01 2020 17:08

2 questions for those who know these things ...

1) will the driver-fix affect the performance of the card, even slightly?

2) currently PCI-E 4.0 does not make much difference for this GFX card - will it in the future? Either to this GFX card, or future cards?

Posted by Anfield - Thu Oct 01 2020 17:42

1) Inevitably yes. The clock reduction looks pretty small though (might want to wait and see what AIBs do regarding PCB and Bios revisions that may change it again).

2) Pci-e scaling numbers:
https://www.techpowerup.com/review/nvidia-geforce-rtx-3080-pci-express-scaling/27.html

So no, pci-e 4 has no benefit beyond the margin of error for gaming with the 30x0 cards.

And by the time future cards really need it people will probably be asking if they should replace their Pci-e 6 mobo with a Pci-e 7 mobo.

Posted by Vault-Tec - Fri Oct 02 2020 18:43

1) depends on the card. Some have noticed higher boost clocks by 40mhz, some have noticed drops by the same.
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