Bamboo Fingernail Torture for Graphics Cards and the RTX 3080 Just Proves Its Dominance Here But I Think What's the Most Impressive Is Shadow of the Tomb Raider Where You're Getting 136 Frames Per Second Average with Ultra Ray Tracing with Ultra Ray Tracing You Barely Drop Under a Hundred Frames Per Second While Gaming

But What We're Going to Do Now Is We're Going to Let Some Air into This Vacuum By Comparing the 2070 Super Which is a Loser Previous Generation GPU But the Reason That I'm Using This Comparison Is to See If the Extra Performance That You Get from the 3080 Actually Matters on 144Hz

Monitor With No Ray Tracing There Is a Performance Benefit from the 3080 and I Hope There's a Performance Benefit from It But with All of the Games Except for Assassin's Creed Valhalla and Metro Exodus You're Still Getting Above 100 Frames Per Second Average Which is Kind of the Sweet Spot for Gaming for Me

And This Is With Cranked Settings on All of These Games So Subjectively When Comparing Non-Ray Traced to Non-Ray-Traced Performance the 2070 Super Does a Really Good Job at 1080p and You Don't Really Need Much More Gaming Performance Than This But the Story Gets Very Interesting When You Compare the 3080's Ray-Traced Results to the 2070 Super's Non-Ray-Traced Results

This Is Where the Extra Power of the 3080 Really Starts to Show at 1080P Is When You Introduce Ray-Traced Settings Because with the 2070 Super The Performance Without Ray Tracing and Ultra Settings in These Visual Safari Games is Kind of Where You Want It to Be So There Isn't Much Room for Compromise While with the 3080 There's So Much Extra Performance Left in the Tank That When You Take into Account the Ray-Traced Performance Penalty You're Still Sitting in That Frame Per Second Sweet Spot Which Is Pretty Crazy and That Shows You Where the 3080's Extra Performance Matters at 1080P

It's Ray Tracing If You Want to Use Non-DLS Ray Tracing or You Want to Use 1080P as the Base Resolution for DLS Upscaling on Your Higher Resolution Monitor Then the 3080's Performance at This Resolution Does Make Sense Whether or Not You Care About Ray Tracing is Personally Up to You But Considering the Fact That AMD Now Supports It and the New Consoles Support Ray Tracing This Is Something That Going into the Future Is Gonna Be More Relevant

And That's Why the Extra Power of This Current Generation or New Generation of Graphics Cards Starts to Actually Make Any Sense But If You Don't Care About That and You Just Want to Play FPS Games Multiplayer Online at 1080P You Really Don't Need to Worry About Getting Something Like an RTX 3080 And Honestly Even if That Is Something That You Care About an RTX 3070 Which Costs Less Money Is Going to Give You a Similar Experience and I'm Sure It's Going to Be the Same Thing with the RX 6800 and the 6800 XT

Which Are Going to Cost Less and Provide a Very Similar Kind of Gaming Benchmark But That's More a Comment on Whether or Not the 3080 Matters Full Stop as Opposed to Whether It Matters at 1080P So in Short the 1080P Use Case of These High-End Next-Gen GPUs Like the RTX 3080 and Potentially the Up-and-Coming Big Navi GPUs with the RX 6800 and 6800 XT Is High Refresh Rate Ray-Traced Visual Safari Gaming

And If That's Something That You're Into Then This BenQ Ex2710 Is a Really Good Pairing Because of Just the Beautiful Image Quality That It Offers These Games Look Majestic on It With Its High Refresh Rate Color Accuracy So with That It Brings Me to the End of a Reasonably Convoluted Video Uh if You Liked It Like and Subscribe to the Channel

I'm Currently in a Queue for Either the RX 6800 or the 6800 XT Depending on Which One I Can Get My Hands On So There Will Be a Video on Those at Some Point in the Future

WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: ennow i realize today is the day that big navi is launched and at this point nobody cares about ampere anymore because they've been hurt so deep by it but two months ago to the day pretty much i paid for this damn thing i got it two days ago and i'm gonna do a video on it if it kills me so what i decided to do was test this graphics card in a situation that applies to over 76 percent of gamers now that sounds like a very relevant test to do until you realize that those 76 percent of gamers probably aren't shopping for a 3080 but you know whatever just let me do my video one of the main reasons why i decided to test the rtx 3080 at 1080p and yes if you're new to the channel you're gonna have to get used to how i say that but one of the main reasons why i tested it at that resolution is because benq sent over this ex2710 which is the best 27 inch 1080p high refresh rate ips hdr freesync display that i've ever used and it feels a lot more premium than monitors in this price category usually do one of the reasons for that is the excellent image quality it's got like black equalizer and an hdr implementation it does actually look better than most hdr implementations and then there's the build quality of the monitor its stand is amazing which is usually one of the big shortcomings of these kinds of displays it's very sturdy and it's actually got adjustments that make sense right so i thought how well does this monitor pair with a really high-end gpu and in the same time we can answer should you care about the 3080 if you game at 1080p which seems like a fairly obvious thing of like obviously it's massively overpowered for 1080p but it's interesting because there's a bit more to it than that now the exact version of the rtx 3080 that i'm testing today is one of the runtier versions it's the evga xc3 ultra now its runtiness is one of the main reasons i got this version of the card because i wanted to be able to fit it in itx chassis because i really like having my pcs double as a fire starter now physically i quite like the way that this version of the card looks except for the weird red fish lips on the front of it i don't understand why they put that there i know that evga offered to send out like colored replacements for it but why red lips it doesn't match the aesthetic of any of the rest of the card it's such a weird addition that it almost seems like they were taking the piss when they did it i don't know it's it's it's a bit strange but with all of the physical stuff out of the way let's talk about the benchmarks the really exciting part let's see how overkill the 3080 is at 1080p now i tested it with an i9 10850k overclocked to 5.1 gigahertz with 32 gigs of 3200 megahertz many 32s there it's really good for my self-esteem um but yeah so this configuration should give you a good indication of what the maximum performance is that you can get at the moment out of this gpu at 1080p so let's have a quick look at some basic benchmarks so these results in a vacuum are impressive battlefield 5 with ultra settings is hitting 176 frames per second average that means to take full advantage of this performance you need a 240 hertz monitor for battlefield 5 that's pretty ridiculous escape from tarkov at the highest settings at 1080p pretty much sits pegged at the 120 frame per second cap of the game engine it does dip below that sometimes but that's just server optimization issues it is a really smooth good looking gaming experience metro exodus almost hits 120 frames per second at ultra settings which is kind of unprecedented and the same thing goes for shadow of the tomb raider with ultra settings 174 frames per second average it's so crazy but these results get more impressive when you factor into account the ray tracing performance so let's let's have a look at that battlefield 5 with maxed ray tracing settings at 1080p is hitting almost 120 frames per second which means you can comfortably game online and the frame rate isn't gonna hold you back it looks really good metro exodus almost averages a hundred frames per second with ultra ray tracing it's pretty crazy with metro exodus you can take things even further with the extreme settings and ultra ray tracing and here you're still getting 54 frames per second with the rtx 3080 which is crazy that may not sound very high but that setting level essentially just exists as like bamboo fingernail torture for graphics cards and the rtx 3080 just proves its dominance here but i think what's the most impressive is shadow of the tomb raider where you're getting 136 frames per second average with ultra ray tracing with ultra ray tracing you barely drop under a hundred frames per second while gaming but what we're going to do now is we're going to let some air into this vacuum by comparing the 2070 super which is a loser previous generation gpu but the reason that i'm using this comparison is to see if the extra performance that you get from the 3080 actually matters on 144 her 1080p monitor with no ray tracing there is a performance benefit from the 3080 and i hope there's a performance benefit from it but with all of the games except for assassin's creed valhalla and metro exodus you're still getting above 100 frames per second average which is kind of the sweet spot for gaming for me and this is with cranked settings on all of these games so subjectively when comparing non-ray trace to non-ray trace performance the 2070 super does a really good job at 1080p and you don't really need much more gaming performance than this but the story gets very interesting when you compare the 3080s raytraced results to the 2070 super's non-ray traced results this is where the extra power of the 3080 really starts to show at 1080p is when you introduce ray traced settings because with the 2070 super the the performance without ray tracing and ultra settings in these visual safari games is kind of where you want it to be so there isn't much room for compromise whereas with the 3080 there's so much extra performance left in the tank that when you take into account the ray traced performance penalty you're still sitting in that frame per second sweet spot which is which is pretty crazy and that shows you where the 3080s extra performance matters at 1080p it's ray tracing if you want to use non-dls ray tracing or you want to use 1080p as the base resolution for dlss upscaling on your higher resolution monitor then the 3080s performance at this resolution does make sense whether or not you care about ray tracing is personally up to you but considering the fact that amd now supports it and the new consoles support ray tracing this is something that going into the future is gonna be more relevant and that's why the extra power of this current generation or new generation of graphics cards starts to actually make any sense but if you don't care about that and you just want to play fps games multiplayer online at 1080p you really don't need to worry about getting something like an rtx 3080 and honestly even if that is something that you care about an rtx 3070 which costs less money is going to give you a similar experience and i'm sure it's going to be the same thing with the rx 6800 and the 6800 xt which are going to cost less and provide a very similar kind of gaming benchmark but that's more a comment on whether or not the the 3080 matters full stop as opposed to whether it matters at 1080p so in short the 1080p use case of these high-end next-gen gpus like the rtx 3080 and potentially the up-and-coming big navi gpus with the rx 6800 and 6800 xt is high refresh rate ray traced visual safari gaming and if that's something that you're into then this benq ex2710 is a really good pairing because of just the beautiful image quality that it offers these games look majestic on it with its high refresh rate color accuracy so with that it brings me to the end of a reasonably convoluted video uh if you liked it like and subscribe to the channel i'm currently in a queue for either the rx 6800 or the 6800xt depending on which one i can get my hands on so there will be a video on those at some point in the future and yeah until the next video byenow i realize today is the day that big navi is launched and at this point nobody cares about ampere anymore because they've been hurt so deep by it but two months ago to the day pretty much i paid for this damn thing i got it two days ago and i'm gonna do a video on it if it kills me so what i decided to do was test this graphics card in a situation that applies to over 76 percent of gamers now that sounds like a very relevant test to do until you realize that those 76 percent of gamers probably aren't shopping for a 3080 but you know whatever just let me do my video one of the main reasons why i decided to test the rtx 3080 at 1080p and yes if you're new to the channel you're gonna have to get used to how i say that but one of the main reasons why i tested it at that resolution is because benq sent over this ex2710 which is the best 27 inch 1080p high refresh rate ips hdr freesync display that i've ever used and it feels a lot more premium than monitors in this price category usually do one of the reasons for that is the excellent image quality it's got like black equalizer and an hdr implementation it does actually look better than most hdr implementations and then there's the build quality of the monitor its stand is amazing which is usually one of the big shortcomings of these kinds of displays it's very sturdy and it's actually got adjustments that make sense right so i thought how well does this monitor pair with a really high-end gpu and in the same time we can answer should you care about the 3080 if you game at 1080p which seems like a fairly obvious thing of like obviously it's massively overpowered for 1080p but it's interesting because there's a bit more to it than that now the exact version of the rtx 3080 that i'm testing today is one of the runtier versions it's the evga xc3 ultra now its runtiness is one of the main reasons i got this version of the card because i wanted to be able to fit it in itx chassis because i really like having my pcs double as a fire starter now physically i quite like the way that this version of the card looks except for the weird red fish lips on the front of it i don't understand why they put that there i know that evga offered to send out like colored replacements for it but why red lips it doesn't match the aesthetic of any of the rest of the card it's such a weird addition that it almost seems like they were taking the piss when they did it i don't know it's it's it's a bit strange but with all of the physical stuff out of the way let's talk about the benchmarks the really exciting part let's see how overkill the 3080 is at 1080p now i tested it with an i9 10850k overclocked to 5.1 gigahertz with 32 gigs of 3200 megahertz many 32s there it's really good for my self-esteem um but yeah so this configuration should give you a good indication of what the maximum performance is that you can get at the moment out of this gpu at 1080p so let's have a quick look at some basic benchmarks so these results in a vacuum are impressive battlefield 5 with ultra settings is hitting 176 frames per second average that means to take full advantage of this performance you need a 240 hertz monitor for battlefield 5 that's pretty ridiculous escape from tarkov at the highest settings at 1080p pretty much sits pegged at the 120 frame per second cap of the game engine it does dip below that sometimes but that's just server optimization issues it is a really smooth good looking gaming experience metro exodus almost hits 120 frames per second at ultra settings which is kind of unprecedented and the same thing goes for shadow of the tomb raider with ultra settings 174 frames per second average it's so crazy but these results get more impressive when you factor into account the ray tracing performance so let's let's have a look at that battlefield 5 with maxed ray tracing settings at 1080p is hitting almost 120 frames per second which means you can comfortably game online and the frame rate isn't gonna hold you back it looks really good metro exodus almost averages a hundred frames per second with ultra ray tracing it's pretty crazy with metro exodus you can take things even further with the extreme settings and ultra ray tracing and here you're still getting 54 frames per second with the rtx 3080 which is crazy that may not sound very high but that setting level essentially just exists as like bamboo fingernail torture for graphics cards and the rtx 3080 just proves its dominance here but i think what's the most impressive is shadow of the tomb raider where you're getting 136 frames per second average with ultra ray tracing with ultra ray tracing you barely drop under a hundred frames per second while gaming but what we're going to do now is we're going to let some air into this vacuum by comparing the 2070 super which is a loser previous generation gpu but the reason that i'm using this comparison is to see if the extra performance that you get from the 3080 actually matters on 144 her 1080p monitor with no ray tracing there is a performance benefit from the 3080 and i hope there's a performance benefit from it but with all of the games except for assassin's creed valhalla and metro exodus you're still getting above 100 frames per second average which is kind of the sweet spot for gaming for me and this is with cranked settings on all of these games so subjectively when comparing non-ray trace to non-ray trace performance the 2070 super does a really good job at 1080p and you don't really need much more gaming performance than this but the story gets very interesting when you compare the 3080s raytraced results to the 2070 super's non-ray traced results this is where the extra power of the 3080 really starts to show at 1080p is when you introduce ray traced settings because with the 2070 super the the performance without ray tracing and ultra settings in these visual safari games is kind of where you want it to be so there isn't much room for compromise whereas with the 3080 there's so much extra performance left in the tank that when you take into account the ray traced performance penalty you're still sitting in that frame per second sweet spot which is which is pretty crazy and that shows you where the 3080s extra performance matters at 1080p it's ray tracing if you want to use non-dls ray tracing or you want to use 1080p as the base resolution for dlss upscaling on your higher resolution monitor then the 3080s performance at this resolution does make sense whether or not you care about ray tracing is personally up to you but considering the fact that amd now supports it and the new consoles support ray tracing this is something that going into the future is gonna be more relevant and that's why the extra power of this current generation or new generation of graphics cards starts to actually make any sense but if you don't care about that and you just want to play fps games multiplayer online at 1080p you really don't need to worry about getting something like an rtx 3080 and honestly even if that is something that you care about an rtx 3070 which costs less money is going to give you a similar experience and i'm sure it's going to be the same thing with the rx 6800 and the 6800 xt which are going to cost less and provide a very similar kind of gaming benchmark but that's more a comment on whether or not the the 3080 matters full stop as opposed to whether it matters at 1080p so in short the 1080p use case of these high-end next-gen gpus like the rtx 3080 and potentially the up-and-coming big navi gpus with the rx 6800 and 6800 xt is high refresh rate ray traced visual safari gaming and if that's something that you're into then this benq ex2710 is a really good pairing because of just the beautiful image quality that it offers these games look majestic on it with its high refresh rate color accuracy so with that it brings me to the end of a reasonably convoluted video uh if you liked it like and subscribe to the channel i'm currently in a queue for either the rx 6800 or the 6800xt depending on which one i can get my hands on so there will be a video on those at some point in the future and yeah until the next video bye