Early real-world NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 benchmarks point to 80% performance gains over the GeForce RTX 2080 in multiple triple-A games

So, the dust has settled on the launch of the RTX 30 series, which debuted earlier this week as the RTX 3070, RTX 3080 and RTX 3090. The latter may be the highlight of NVIDIA's new Ampere cards, but the company chose to run with the RTX 3080 for initial comparisons with the Turing and Pascal architectures. Based on initial performance slides provided by NVIDIA, the RTX 3080 offers up to a 100% performance improvement over the RTX 2080, which would represent an impressive generational leap from Turing to Ampere.

While we are yet to review the RTX 3080, Digital Foundry has provided some initial real-world numbers for the RTX 3080. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the results are not as impressive as NVIDIA makes out, but they still represent a notable performance improvement from the RTX 2080. Digital Foundry benchmarked the RTX 3080 at 4K and maximum graphics settings, during which it outperformed the RTX 2080 by anywhere from 69.8% to 92.3% in modern triple-A titles.