KFA2 GeForce RTX 3080 SG 12GB Desktop Graphics Card Review: A Better RTX 3080 thanks to more VRAM and more Shaders?

Thanks to its very high performance the KFA2 GeForce RTX 3080 SG 12 GB is practically made for high-resolution gaming in high details. If you only play in 1080p a GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB might not be the right choice for you. If, however, you want your GPU to last for many a year this top-of-the-line model might just be. The RTX 3080 definitely benefits immensely from having access to 12 GB of VRAM, and it should have been released like this from the beginning. Nevertheless, its competitors offer more with up to 16 GB of VRAM, and Nvidia’s own prohibitively expensive RTX 3090 features up to 24 GB of VRAM. This, however, does not necessarily result in higher performance, as can be seen below. While the RTX 3090 did perform slightly faster than our RTX 3080 12 GB review model the differences between the two do not justify the RTX 3090’s higher price.

12 GB of VRAM are a good compromise and nowhere near as limiting as previous models. In fact, they are more than plenty, as our The Witcher 3 (1080p, Ultra) recorded frame rates showed. While we did encounter two minor frame drops they were not at all dramatic and, more importantly, not at all noticeable. In other words, they had no tangible effect on the gaming experience, and the benchmark concluded with an average of 151 FPS.