**A Gaming Benchmarking Session: How Well Do Modern Graphics Cards Perform?**

The world of gaming has undergone significant changes with the advent of modern graphics cards, and benchmarking them is essential to understand their capabilities. In this article, we'll delve into a comprehensive gaming benchmarking session featuring some popular titles, including Minecraft RTX, Overwatch, CS:GO, Watch Dogs: Legion, Cyberpunk 2077, and Fortnite.

**Minecraft RTX: A New Era of Graphics**

The first game on our list is Minecraft RTX, which has recently emerged from beta. At 4K ultra settings with DLSS enabled by default, we were able to achieve 60 FPS, 57 FPS, and 54 FPS. The addition of ray tracing reimagines the way Minecraft operates, making it look like a whole different game. For fans of mods and other customizations, this might not be the ideal experience, but for those who want to explore the enhanced visuals, Minecraft RTX is an exciting development.

**Watch Dogs: Legion - Ray Tracing and DLSS in Action**

Next up is Watch Dogs: Legion, which features ray tracing and DLSS capabilities. At 4K ultra settings with ray tracing enabled and DLSS turned on, we achieved nearly 70 FPS. Without ray tracing but with DLSS enabled, the frame rate increased by around 40-50 FPS to an average of 112 FPS. This demonstrates the significant impact of DLSS in improving performance.

**Cyberpunk 2077: A Challenging Game for Graphics Cards**

Cyberpunk 2077 is another challenging game to run smoothly on modern graphics cards. At 4K ultra settings with DLSS enabled, we achieved 68 FPS at 1440p high settings, which might not be sufficient for esports-level frame rates. However, if we turn off ray tracing but keep DLSS on auto, the frame rate jumps to nearly 100 FPS at 1440p. This highlights the importance of careful tuning and optimization in achieving smooth performance.

**Fortnite: A Popular Game with Mixed Results**

Finally, we have Fortnite, a popular game among gamers. We tested various settings to find the sweet spot for performance, ranging from ray tracing off at 1440p high all the way to competitive settings at 1440p high. The results were mixed, but overall, we saw respectable frame rates, with some titles achieving over 200 FPS at 1440p low with DLSS enabled.

**The Verdict: A Mixed Bag of Results**

In conclusion, our gaming benchmarking session revealed a mixed bag of results from modern graphics cards. While some games performed exceptionally well, others struggled to maintain smooth performance. The addition of ray tracing and DLSS capabilities has shown promise in improving performance, but careful tuning and optimization are still essential for achieving optimal frame rates. As the gaming landscape continues to evolve, it will be exciting to see how these technologies improve over time.

**A Final Note from the Author**

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"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwhat is up everyone welcome back to another geeker video and if you haven't seen already somehow we did it 100 000 subscribers wait for it now you can see the balloons look at this but today we're going to be building a really awesome kind of rtx 3080 based system inside the new corsair iq 5000 x i'm loving this electronic desk by the way as well we've got loads of goodies including the new corsair 360 mil capellix radiator we're going x570 we're going ryzen 5000 all in all you do not want to miss this i'm gonna run you through all the parts i selected and why the build process step by step from start to finish before booting this machine up to see just how well it performs but first a quick word from today's video sponsor ebuya are your one-stop shop for all your pc component needs here in the uk check out the uk links to all the components listed today at ebuy.com in the description below including their entire lineup of rtx 3080 graphics cards just like this one their in-house brand alpha sync also has a range of full 3080 systems that you can buy right now check them out at the link in the description below as always i'm going to kick things off by installing our cpu today into the motherboard alongside our ram and ssd and those kind of components you can go either for a ryzen 5 or ryzen 7 the 5600 or the 5800x are both great options today this six core 12 thread ryzen 5 chip is the better choice for gamers out there and just save you a little bit of cash i'm going to be installing it today into the motherboard choice this is the msi x570 gaming edge wi-fi it costs just a little bit more than the b550 options on the market but you do actually get active cooling on the chipset which should give us a bit more overclocking headroom alongside the slightly beefier vrms today and what's also quite good is that you do get wi-fi included out the box so you haven't got to add any expansion cards in or anything like that now in terms of the motherboard today we don't need anything else from our box but we are going to use it as kind of an anti-static workstation installing the cpu is super easy pull back and upwards this silver retention arm on the cpu socket and then simply line the gold triangle on this cpu or with the corresponding triangle on the top left corner of that cpu socket on the motherboard itself drop the cpu and you can give it a little bit of a wiggle and pop the arm back down this is a zero insertion four socket which means popping the arm up and down is literally as easy as that just as kind of a demonstration the next thing we're actually going to do then today is install the ram and this goes in our ram dim slots on the motherboard specifically this is corsair's vengeance rgb pro it's a pretty good value kit and a 3600 megahertz speed is going to help our cpu in the performance department today once again installing the ram is it's pretty simple we're going to pull back the second and fourth clips on our ram dim slots just like so and then align the notch on the ram dim with the corresponding notch on the motherboard the ram is then going to slide pretty nicely into place even pressure to both sides and it will click in pretty easily really repeat for as many ram dims as you've got and we're all sorted next up then it's time to install the ssd today i've gone for the seagate fire cuda 520 not only is it a gen 4 drive with blisteringly fast speeds but it also includes seagate's three years data recovery so if this drive kind of dies you can send it back to them within that three year period and hopefully they're going to save your bacon which is quite a nice touch i've not really seen that before to install the ssd though we need to remove this heatsink and for that i think you guys know what we need we need a teeny tiny screwdriver come on i have been a busy man over christmas and the teeny tiny screwdriver has had an upgrade yes look at this it's never been so quick to build a pc now in all seriousness this is a little bit overkill and it's probably gonna like thread some screws so like be careful is all i'm saying now in terms of installing the ssd this is once again super duper simple you just want to find this gold strip at the top of the drive and just find the little cutout we're going to match this up with the corresponding cutout on our motherboard today and then just slide the drive in a little something like that to the m.2 slot and we're just going to take the little ssd standoff that comes included in the motherboard to just fasten that ssd drive nicely into place the fire cuda 520 is now all nice and secure and we can pop that heatsink back on and with that our motherboard assembly is now basically complete i'm going to save the cpu caller for a little bit later to make our lives that little bit easier first though we need to install it oh my goodness into the case today this is the brand new corsair iq 5000 x rgb and we need some scissors now believe it or not this is actually the bigger brother to the fairly newly released 4 000 x rgb and you can find the video i did with that chassis in the cards up here oh my goodness now this thing is a little bit of a big boy it's um slightly insane if i'm being honest with you now this case is slightly insane as you can probably tell it's crammed with features including the option to mount our radiator kind of like vertically i don't know on it on its like side on show so we're gonna do that today it's got tempered glass on not one not two not three but actually four individual sides which is a bit mad really isn't it i mean it's completely insane it supports up to e atx motherboards and you can see here it's actually got a radiator mounting point which we're going to be using in just a second first though let's install the motherboard it's actually quite lightweight with nothing in it we're going to install the motherboard into our case now this motherboard has a rear i o shield built in so you've got nothing that you need to click in the back of the chassis and with this case being set up for let's face it not mini atx boards it has pretty much yeah it has all the standoffs in the right place it's just worth checking by finding each of the holes through your motherboard and matching these up to the corresponding black standoffs in any case but as i say this one is nice and ready to go to install the motherboard we're then just going to slide it into the chassis today kind of poke that rear io shield through and the raised center standoff which is actually hidden behind this heatsink is going to hold the motherboard at least temporarily into place and you'll find this brown box in the back of the chassis which comes included with basically all cases nowadays which has all the screws and stuff you're gonna need amongst other things to secure the motherboard into place and you can do that a little something like so with the motherboard installed we next need to think about the radiator i've got a 360 mil cooler which is going to go here but currently this bit of the power supply shroud is in the way of course i do allow you to remove this with a thumb screw it's another screw at the back of the case corsair do include this kind of like extra plastic add-on which i'm guessing kind of slots in here but first we obviously need to remove the cable cover to actually reveal the radiator mounting points we'll get there in the end aha there we go so the power supply kind of cable cover has been removed which in theory look at that that is i've never seen that before so basically what that's going to do is just make it so that this is not like dead ugly down in the bottom corner nice work corsair i am i'm rating this case so far let's now grab that cpu cooler i don't know where it's gone here it is cpu cooler this is also from corsair it's there h150i basically it's a 360 millimeter cooler my master day is gone and it's in white which is gonna match our build perfectly oh yeah look at that oh oh that's hard oh there's that there's that specifically this model is actually one of their capelix range which has the new capellix rgb technology and from my kind of experience it is the brightest rgb i mean i've ever seen inside of a pc which some people are gonna hate some people like me we like we like rgb here on the channel let's pop that out the way for a second inside the box you also get not one not two but of course three rgb fans the instruction manual which we're probably not gonna need but it's good to keep hold off and then all your extra mounting hardware including including a bag but oh no the bag wasn't the bag the bags opened itself in shipping and that's just made my life really not not fun so because we're going to install the radiator with the fans at the front we need to secure it in actually from the back side that's going to be a much much easier way of doing things we're just going to slot the radiator into its provisional place all lined up with the mounting points and then just screw it down and we can do that a little something like this that's gonna hold the radiator nicely into place and pave the way for us to screw the fans in on the front technically you probably want them bringing air into the case at the front but it will look better in like the wrong orientation and before anyone says in the comments about these tubes being technically above the block and like the whole gamer's nexus video it doesn't matter like the distance between the cpu and the tubes in terms of height is so minimal it's not going to cause an issue and in case anyone kind of hadn't noticed you can't exactly mount this radiator at the bottom because the tube simply won't reach the cpu especially once we've got a graphics card installed this cool app does actually come with the thermal paste pre-applied it's got a little plastic cover we don't need that and it also has pre-installed these intel mounting brackets which once again we're not using today because of course we've got a ryzen cpu instead we're going to be using these amd brackets they have kind of like a lip that goes upwards and they just pop on to our cpu cooler and then what we're also going to do is use these kind of o shaped brackets or square brackets to actually secure through the mounting plate of the cooler and that's what's going to fasten on to the pre-installed mounting hardware around the cpu today look at that the case is now like really starting to come together i can see how this chassis would be great for a full all-in-one loop with a radiator at the top but maybe we'll drop some rgb fans up there just to kind of like fill the case out just a little bit for now though i think it's about time we install the power supply and to do this we're going to just spin the case around to the back and actually remove this keb management door that's going to allow us to just shove all the cables out of sight out of mind and keep things looking nice and tidy speaking of which this is the power supply i've gone for this is once again from corsair we've got a corsair case cooler and power supply trio today much like the graphics card which is from msi and matches the motherboard now this is the corsair cx-750f it's a white unit and finding a kind of a really good reasonably priced white power supply is kind of rare these days so nice one to corsair for creating this 750 watt super efficient fully modular power supply now in terms of the cables we actually need to plug in for this fully modular power supply uh a couple of eight pin cpu power connectors or four plus four pin if we're being super duper accurate a dual six plus two pin pci power connector for our graphics card a 20 plus four pin motherboard power cable to power up of course our motherboard the biggest connector of all today followed closely by a satter power harness that's going to power up any physical ssds or hard drives or more importantly the rgb hub that comes included in the case and with the cooler today there we go that wasn't too difficult i'm just going to pull the case around and the power supply is just going to slide into the back of the chassis and secure down in these four corners a little something like this all that leaves us to really do them before we go ahead and install the graphics card today is actually just plug all those wires and connectors up it first starts off with our cpu power cable which goes to the top left of the motherboard followed closely by the largest motherboard power connector which goes to the right hand side of our motherboard today and then buy all of our front panel cables the first is our jfp one connector for our power reset indicator all the leds and buttons basically at the top of the case these can be a bit fiddly but the diagram on your screen now should help simplify the whole process we've also got a usb 3 header to power our usb 3 ports on the top of the chassis today this is a bit delicate and his notch will only go in one way finally then we've also got our hd audio connectors they go to the bottom there's the bottom left of the motherboard for hd audio and that's basically similar to usb 2 as a connector but with a different pin blocked out so just be careful and as with all of these don't force them you're better off just kind of reading the manual starting again taking it slow and you're gonna be good okay then now that's all installed we're next gonna pop in the graphics card today this is the msi rtx 3080 supreme x because like gaming x wasn't enough for msi it seems this card is absolutely gorgeous now i know a lot of people out there are desperately trying to get their hands on an rtx well an rtx anything if we're being completely honest with you and if i'm being completely honest i don't know exactly when stock isn't isn't going to come back i've heard rumors that here in the uk retailers are starting to finish off um kind of fulfilling all the pre-orders so hopefully that means the demand will kind of get a bit more bearable right um but either way this card is absolutely insane it's got three huge fans right pretty normal for a graphics card a machined aluminium kind of frame like that is all metal but the whole thing is metal the back plate is like nothing you have ever seen it's got like an accent line this all lights up it's rgb and look at the thickness of it like this case does have a vertical gpu mount but there is absolutely no way this graphics card is going to fit on that vertical gpu mount it's also quite heavy boy and we'll see how that kind of works in the performance department we are working on making our benchmarks even better than before and new for today's video i'm going to link a playlist down below where you can find all the raw benchmark files from this build so if you want to see us just play overwatch for five minutes on this card or battlefield or whatever check out benched by geekwatt linked in the description make sure to get subscribed over there for all your kind of comprehensive gameplay analysis in order to install the graphics card then the final step really of today's build we just need to unscrew the second and third pcie slot covers there we go that worked didn't it the graphics card is gonna nicely slot into place oh it just about fits with the fan i hope this was planned corsair and not i guess it was planned but like the graphics card only just fits so do beware if you've got a graphics card that's a bit of a thick boy make sure you check all your clearances for those kind of radiator installations you're then going to use the same screws you remove the pci brackets with to secure the graphics card nicely back down into place with that being said though i think we should probably boot this machine up let's see how good it looks when it's all powered up and that can only mean one thing roll that montage oh okay then now we've put this system together and seen just how good it looks when it's all powered up let's take a dive and see exactly how it performs i've tested over 15 of the latest aaa titles and i'm going to run through them game by game if you'd like to see the full and edited benchmark clips check those out in the playlist in the cards and in the description first up though is death stranding here at 4k high settings with dlss enabled and set to quality it gives us 164 149 and 136 frames per second respectively the gta 5 inbuilt benchmarking mode is next up 4k high settings gives us 67 62 and 54 frames per second and you can check out my other builds in the gta 5 benchmark mode to really easily compare and contrast next up then is control of course the title which does support rtx first at 4k with dlss set to 1440p so nvidia's ai tech rendering at 1440p and using ai to upscale to nearing off a true 4k resolution gives us 81 73 and 70 frames per second with of course ray tracing enabled drop the dlss down to 960p but keep the core resolution at 4k and here with rtx on high once again we're jumping up to 95 84 and 80 frames per second not a bad effort next up then is apex legends set to 4k high settings no ray tracing or dlss available here and you look in 124 118 and 106 fps drop down to 1440p high settings and we're going a little bit further up to 159 136 and 123 for those average 90 and 99 percent our results as i say though full unedited clip so kind of ten minutes of gameplay of each title can be found in the description below call of duty's war zone is next up today then 4k high settings seas 95 86 and 59 frames per second for those average 90 and 99th percentile results and no ray tracing is supported in the free battle royale mode i then tuned the resolution down to 1440p but kept the high settings and here you see 153 128 and 96 fps which is a really considerable increase call of duty's new black ops cold war is a harder game to run than warzone but nevertheless you can still get some great frame rates 4k high settings in cold war with dlss and rtx both set to high gives you 59 35 and 32 fps which are a little bit shaky tune down to 1440p though high settings dlss on and here you're getting 168 frames per second so basically a 100 frames per second increase with similar increases in both the 90 and 99th percentile results next up today then is overwatch at 4k ultra settings the game ran really really well 232 fps on average is not a bad result with 188 and 167 for the 90 and 99th percentile results also stacking up very nicely cs go is the next game on my list today i always pop it on here because people they want to see how it performs 4k high settings gives you 373 fps on average i don't think there's much more to say about that one moving on to minecraft rtx next up it's now out of beta and here at 4k with dlss enabled by default you're looking 60 57 and 54. ray tracing reimagines the way that minecraft really operates and looks and turns it in my view into a whole different game if you're into mods and all that kind of stuff though then ray tracing is not the one for you but it's always good to see how minecraft rtx stacks up and as it kind of squeezes out and out of beta even more uh then the frame rate should continue to climb do maternal is the next title we tested here at 4k ultra nightmare what a name for a preset i've said it before say it again that's just awesome gives you 150 138 and 129 which while it doesn't have any ray tracing or dlss support is a great test of overall rasterization and the game looked great rainbow six siege is next today then we tested first at 4k very high settings then at 1440p with the identical settings first off in the game's inbuilt benchmarking mode we saw 242 fps on average with respectable 90 and 99th percentile results esports level frame rates really and then tuning down to 1440p we once again saw some great numbers 242 jumps to 307 194 jumps to 245 and 174 for the 99th result gives you 295 frames per second what a crazy increase watchdogs legions is next up then first off with ray tracing enabled and dlss turned on at 4k high settings and then with ray tracing turned off the rtx on result gave us nearly 70 frames per second for the average with 65 and 63 for the 90 and 99th percentiles watchdogs legions without ray tracing at the identical settings does give you a comfortable performance increase around 40 to 50 frames per second 112 on average with a frame rate that never really dropped below 100 is really not too bad going next up then today is cyberpunk the final game on my list before we do jump into a little bit of fortnite because i know you guys love a bit of fortnite and here you're looking 68 63 and 52 at 1440p high settings with both dlss and rtx enabled and then if we turn rtx off but keep dlss on auto once again at 1440p it's gonna jump to nearly 100 frames per second on average and does boost the 99th percentile result well above 60. cyberpunk is such a difficult game to run and it doesn't need me to kind of reiterate how buggy it is hopefully it will continue to get better but a 3080 is about the best card for cyberpunk at least at the moment finally then is fortnite we have tested a whole range of settings to make sure everyone is happy ranging from ray tracing off at 1440p high all the way to competitive settings 1440p high first off gives us 150 135 and 120 so kind of still on the low end of esports frame rates but not a bad effort at all and then 1440p low with dlss once again kept on because that is going to maximize our frame rate boosts us nicely over 200 frames per second with 189 and 173 for the 90 and 99th percentile results following closely behind but james what about 1080p competitive settings low basically across the board with our render distance set to far not too epic as that is going to kill your frame rate and here you're looking 234 frames per second on average with a frame rate that never really went below 200 frames per second with that being said though that pretty much wraps it up not only for our pretty mammoth gaming benchmark list today but for the whole video if you did enjoy it you know what to do give it a big old light rain make sure you get subscribed thank you very much for watching though and as always we'll see you in the next one\n"