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

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Nvidia’s RTX 3000-series encompasses graphics cards spanning almost the entire gaming spectrum, from mid-range all the way up to high-end. New models are added regularly, such as for example the GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB. After the RTX 3080’s initial release back in September of 2020 many called for more VRAM as the original card came with just 10 GB. While this was perfectly fine for most games at the time many gamers were worried about their GPU’s future capabilities with yet to be released future games.
The GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB is Nvidia’s response to these repeated requests for more VRAM as it comes with 2 GB more than the original card. It also features a wider memory bus interface without which it would have had to feature a whopping 20 GB of RAM instead. This model appeared regularly in rumor mills but has yet failed to materialize.
For this review, we received a GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB by KFA2. This particular model is based on the GA102 chip with a total of 8,960 shaders, which should improve performance and help to close or at least narrow the gap to the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Ti. In addition, the KFA2 GeForce RTX 3080 SG 12 GB comes with a rather voluminous cooler designed to dissipate the card’s 350 W of heat reliably and quickly. Keep in mind that its triple-slot design takes up a lot of space and might not fit your case. The fancy RGB lights help to illuminate and highlight its three 92 mm fans and the “What’s Your Game” slogan printed on the card.
Prices for this card start at around 970 Euros in Europe and around $1,200 in the United States. Considering current supply chain issues, we find this to be an acceptable price for a high-end graphics card. Prices have also dropped slightly in the last couple of weeks, which is a promising sign.
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Our AMD Ryzen 9 5900X-based Test System
Out test system for this card is based on AMD’s current platform. It features an Asus X570 ROG Crosshair VIII Hero WiFi mainboard, an AMD Ryzen 9 5900X to ensure proper and plentiful CPU performance, an Alphacool Eisbear 360 AiO cooler, and 32 GB of RAM provided by G.Skill. The system outputs its video signal to an Acer Predator XB321HK monitor, which is fully UHD-capable. We would like to thank AMD for providing us with this test platform.
The following system was used to run the benchmarks below:
- Lian Li O11 Dynamic
- AMD Ryzen 9 5900X
- KFA2 GeForce RTX 3080 SG 12GB (Nvidia 512.70)
- Asus X570 ROG Crosshair VIII Hero WiFi (BIOS 2402, Default Settings, XMP 1 for DDR4-4000)
- Corsair RM1000X 1000 W power supply
- G.Skill Trident Z Neo RGB DDR4-4000 memory kit 2 x 16 GB
- Corsair MP600 2TB M.2 PCIe-4.0-SSD
- Crucial MX500 2TB (for games)
Die Grafikkarten der aktuellen RTX-3000-Serie
Configuration | RTX 3090 Ti | RTX 3090 | RTX 3080 Ti | RTX 3080 (12G) | RTX 3080 (10G) | RTX 3070 Ti | RTX 3070 | RTX 3060 Ti | RTX 3060 | RTX 3050 |
Chip | GA102 | GA102 | GA102 | GA102 | GA102 | GA104 | GA104 | GA104 | GA106 | GA106 |
FinFET Process | 8 nm | 8 nm | 8 nm | 8 nm | 8 nm | 8 nm | 8 nm | 8 nm | 8 nm | 8 nm |
CUDA Cores | 10,752 | 10,496 | 10,240 | 8,960 | 8,704 | 6,144 | 5,888 | 4,864 | 3,854 | 2,560 |
Texture Units | 336 | 328 | 320 | 280 | 272 | 192 | 184 | 152 | 112 | 80 |
Tensor Cores | 336 3. Gen. | 328 3. Gen. | 320 3. Gen. | 280 3. Gen. | 272 3. Gen. | 192 3. Gen. | 184 3. Gen. | 152 3. Gen. | 112 3. Gen. | 80 3. Gen |
RT Cores | 84 | 82 | 80 | 70 | 68 | 48 | 46 | 38 | 28 | 20 |
GPU Base Clock | 1,560 MHz | 1,395 MHz | 1,365 MHz | 1,260 MHz | 1,440 MHz | 1,575 MHz | 1,500 MHz | 1,410 MHz | 1,320 MHz | 1,552 MHz |
GPU Boost Clock | 1,860 MHz | 1,695 MHz | 1,665 MHz | 1,710 MHz | 1,710 MHz | 1,770 MHz | 1,750 MHz | 1,665 MHz | 1,777 MHz | 1,777 MHz |
Memory Bus | 384 bit | 384 bit | 384 bit | 384 bit | 320 bit | 256 Bit | 256 Bit | 256 bit | 192 bit | 128 bit |
Memory Bandwidth | 1,008 GB/s | 936 GB/s | 912,4 GB/s | 912,4 GB/s | 760 GB/s | 608,3 GB/s | 448 GB/s | 448 GB/s | 360 GB/s | 224 GB/s |
Video Memory | 24 GB GDDR6X | 24 GB GDDR6X | 12 GB GDDR6X | 12 GB GDDR6X | 10 GB GDDR6X | 8 GB GDDR6 | 8 GB GDDR6 | 8 GB GDDR6 | 12 GB GDDR6 | 8 GB GDDR6 |
Power Consumption | 450 W | 350 W | 350 W | 350 W | 320 W | 290 W | 220 W | 200 W | 170 W | 130 W |
KFA2 GeForce RTX 3080 SG 12 GB Clock Speeds
Our KFA2 GeForce RTX 3080 SG 12 GB review unit’s boost clock speeds were only slightly above Nvidia’s specifications. However, we should add that the specified 1,740 MHz boost were consistently surpassed in almost every single test we ran. This model supports a power target increase of up to nine percent resulting in a total maximum power consumption of 380 W.
Synthetic Benchmarks
In our synthetic benchmarks, we find the KFA2 GeForce RTX 3080 SG 12 GB right where we thought we would: in between the GeForce RTX 3080 and the GeForce RTX 3090. Keep in mind that this particular performance gain is courtesy of the card’s additional shader units and less of its extra VRAM. When compared to its AMD-based competitors the KFA2 RTX 3080 SG 12 GB performed about as fast as an AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT.
3DMark | |
1920x1080 Fire Strike Graphics | |
Radeon RX 6900 XT | |
Radeon RX 6800 XT | |
KFA2 GeForce RTX 3080 SG 12GB | |
Radeon RX 6800 | |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 | |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 | |
Radeon RX 6700 XT | |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 | |
Radeon RX 6600 XT | |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 | |
Fire Strike Extreme Graphics | |
Radeon RX 6900 XT | |
Radeon RX 6800 XT | |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 | |
KFA2 GeForce RTX 3080 SG 12GB | |
Radeon RX 6800 | |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 | |
Radeon RX 6700 XT | |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 | |
Radeon RX 6600 XT | |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 | |
3840x2160 Fire Strike Ultra Graphics | |
Radeon RX 6900 XT | |
Radeon RX 6800 XT | |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 | |
KFA2 GeForce RTX 3080 SG 12GB | |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 | |
Radeon RX 6800 | |
Radeon RX 6700 XT | |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 | |
Radeon RX 6600 XT | |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 | |
2560x1440 Time Spy Graphics | |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 | |
Radeon RX 6900 XT | |
KFA2 GeForce RTX 3080 SG 12GB | |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 | |
Radeon RX 6800 XT | |
Radeon RX 6800 | |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 | |
Radeon RX 6700 XT | |
Radeon RX 6600 XT | |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 |
Unigine Heaven 4.0 | |
Extreme Preset OpenGL | |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 | |
KFA2 GeForce RTX 3080 SG 12GB | |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 | |
Radeon RX 6900 XT | |
Radeon RX 6800 XT | |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 | |
Radeon RX 6800 | |
Radeon RX 6700 XT | |
Radeon RX 6600 XT | |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 | |
Extreme Preset DX11 | |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 | |
KFA2 GeForce RTX 3080 SG 12GB | |
Radeon RX 6900 XT | |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 | |
Radeon RX 6800 XT | |
Radeon RX 6800 | |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 | |
Radeon RX 6700 XT | |
Radeon RX 6600 XT | |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 |
Unigine Valley 1.0 | |
1920x1080 Extreme HD DirectX AA:x8 | |
KFA2 GeForce RTX 3080 SG 12GB | |
Radeon RX 6900 XT | |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 | |
Radeon RX 6800 XT | |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 | |
Radeon RX 6800 | |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 | |
Radeon RX 6700 XT | |
Radeon RX 6600 XT | |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 | |
1920x1080 Extreme HD Preset OpenGL AA:x8 | |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 | |
KFA2 GeForce RTX 3080 SG 12GB | |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 | |
Radeon RX 6900 XT | |
Radeon RX 6800 XT | |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 | |
Radeon RX 6800 | |
Radeon RX 6700 XT | |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 | |
Radeon RX 6600 XT |
SiSoft Sandra 2016 | |
Image Processing | |
Radeon RX 6800 XT | |
Radeon RX 6800 | |
KFA2 GeForce RTX 3080 SG 12GB | |
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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 | |
Radeon RX 6700 XT | |
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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 | |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 | |
GP Cryptography (Higher Security AES256+SHA2-512) | |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 | |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 | |
KFA2 GeForce RTX 3080 SG 12GB | |
Radeon RX 6800 XT | |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 | |
Radeon RX 6700 XT | |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 | |
GP Financial Analysis (FP High/Double Precision) | |
Radeon RX 6800 | |
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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 | |
KFA2 GeForce RTX 3080 SG 12GB | |
Radeon RX 6700 XT | |
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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 | |
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3DMark 05 Standard | 62003 points | |
3DMark 06 Standard Score | 48432 points | |
3DMark Vantage P Result | 102294 points | |
3DMark 11 Performance | 41410 points | |
3DMark Ice Storm Standard Score | 224001 points | |
3DMark Cloud Gate Standard Score | 74457 points | |
3DMark Fire Strike Score | 35922 points | |
3DMark Fire Strike Extreme Score | 21299 points | |
3DMark Time Spy Score | 16961 points | |
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Gaming Benchmarks
Our gaming benchmarks were completed very well overall without any issues. All benchmarked games can be enjoyed smoothly in 2160p and maximum details with only some games failing to reach an average of 60 FPS. Compared to the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 this new 12 GB card performed between 10 and 15 % faster, which means the KFA2 RTX 3080 SG 12 GB is not only faster than the AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT but almost within striking distance of AMD's Radeon RX 6900 XT.
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.
GTA V - 3840x2160 High/On (Advanced Graphics Off) AA:FX AF:8x | |
KFA2 GeForce RTX 3080 SG | |
MSI GeForce RTX 3090 Suprim X | |
MSI GeForce RTX 3080 Gaming X Trio | |
AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT | |
AMD Radeon RX 6800 | |
MSI GeForce RTX 3070 Ventus 3X | |
AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT | |
Inno3D GeForce RTX 3060 Twin X2 | |
AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT |
The Witcher 3 - 3840x2160 High Graphics & Postprocessing (Nvidia HairWorks Off) | |
KFA2 GeForce RTX 3080 SG | |
MSI GeForce RTX 3090 Suprim X | |
AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT | |
MSI GeForce RTX 3080 Gaming X Trio | |
AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT | |
AMD Radeon RX 6800 | |
MSI GeForce RTX 3070 Ventus 3X | |
Inno3D GeForce RTX 3060 Twin X2 | |
AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT | |
AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT |
Far Cry 5 - 3840x2160 Ultra Preset AA:T | |
MSI GeForce RTX 3090 Suprim X | |
KFA2 GeForce RTX 3080 SG | |
AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT | |
MSI GeForce RTX 3080 Gaming X Trio | |
AMD Radeon RX 6800 | |
MSI GeForce RTX 3070 Ventus 3X | |
AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT | |
AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT | |
Inno3D GeForce RTX 3060 Twin X2 |
F1 2020 - 3840x2160 Ultra High Preset AA:T AF:16x | |
MSI GeForce RTX 3090 Suprim X | |
AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT | |
AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT | |
AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT | |
KFA2 GeForce RTX 3080 SG | |
MSI GeForce RTX 3080 Gaming X Trio | |
AMD Radeon RX 6800 | |
MSI GeForce RTX 3070 Ventus 3X | |
AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT | |
AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT | |
Inno3D GeForce RTX 3060 Twin X2 |
Shadow of the Tomb Raider - 3840x2160 Highest Preset AA:T | |
MSI GeForce RTX 3090 Suprim X | |
MSI GeForce RTX 3080 Gaming X Trio | |
AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT | |
AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT | |
KFA2 GeForce RTX 3080 SG | |
AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT | |
AMD Radeon RX 6800 | |
MSI GeForce RTX 3070 Ventus 3X | |
AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT | |
Inno3D GeForce RTX 3060 Twin X2 | |
AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT |
GTA V | |
1920x1080 Highest Settings possible AA:4xMSAA + FX AF:16x | |
KFA2 GeForce RTX 3080 SG | |
AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT | |
AMD Radeon RX 6800 | |
AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT | |
MSI GeForce RTX 3090 Suprim X | |
Inno3D GeForce RTX 3060 Twin X2 | |
MSI GeForce RTX 3070 Ventus 3X | |
MSI GeForce RTX 3080 Gaming X Trio | |
AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT | |
1920x1080 High/On (Advanced Graphics Off) AA:2xMSAA + FX AF:8x | |
KFA2 GeForce RTX 3080 SG | |
Inno3D GeForce RTX 3060 Twin X2 | |
AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT | |
AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT | |
AMD Radeon RX 6800 | |
AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT | |
MSI GeForce RTX 3090 Suprim X | |
MSI GeForce RTX 3070 Ventus 3X | |
MSI GeForce RTX 3080 Gaming X Trio | |
3840x2160 High/On (Advanced Graphics Off) AA:FX AF:8x | |
KFA2 GeForce RTX 3080 SG | |
MSI GeForce RTX 3090 Suprim X | |
MSI GeForce RTX 3080 Gaming X Trio | |
AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT | |
AMD Radeon RX 6800 | |
MSI GeForce RTX 3070 Ventus 3X | |
AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT | |
Inno3D GeForce RTX 3060 Twin X2 | |
AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT |
The Witcher 3 | |
1920x1080 Ultra Graphics & Postprocessing (HBAO+) | |
KFA2 GeForce RTX 3080 SG | |
AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT | |
MSI GeForce RTX 3090 Suprim X | |
AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT | |
AMD Radeon RX 6800 | |
MSI GeForce RTX 3080 Gaming X Trio | |
MSI GeForce RTX 3070 Ventus 3X | |
AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT | |
AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT | |
Inno3D GeForce RTX 3060 Twin X2 | |
1920x1080 High Graphics & Postprocessing (Nvidia HairWorks Off) | |
AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT | |
KFA2 GeForce RTX 3080 SG | |
MSI GeForce RTX 3080 Gaming X Trio | |
AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT | |
MSI GeForce RTX 3090 Suprim X | |
AMD Radeon RX 6800 | |
Inno3D GeForce RTX 3060 Twin X2 | |
MSI GeForce RTX 3070 Ventus 3X | |
AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT | |
AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT | |
3840x2160 High Graphics & Postprocessing (Nvidia HairWorks Off) | |
KFA2 GeForce RTX 3080 SG | |
MSI GeForce RTX 3090 Suprim X | |
AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT | |
MSI GeForce RTX 3080 Gaming X Trio | |
AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT | |
AMD Radeon RX 6800 | |
MSI GeForce RTX 3070 Ventus 3X | |
Inno3D GeForce RTX 3060 Twin X2 | |
AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT | |
AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT |
Far Cry 6 | |
1920x1080 Ultra Graphics Quality + HD Textures AA:T | |
AMD Radeon RX 6800 | |
AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT | |
KFA2 GeForce RTX 3080 SG | |
AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT | |
Inno3D GeForce RTX 3060 Twin X2 | |
1920x1080 High Graphics Quality AA:T | |
AMD Radeon RX 6800 | |
AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT | |
AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT | |
KFA2 GeForce RTX 3080 SG | |
Inno3D GeForce RTX 3060 Twin X2 | |
3840x2160 Ultra Graphics Quality + HD Textures AA:T | |
AMD Radeon RX 6800 | |
KFA2 GeForce RTX 3080 SG | |
AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT | |
Inno3D GeForce RTX 3060 Twin X2 | |
AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT |
Anno 1800 | |
1920x1080 Ultra Graphics Quality (DX11) | |
AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT | |
MSI GeForce RTX 3090 Suprim X | |
MSI GeForce RTX 3080 Gaming X Trio | |
MSI GeForce RTX 3070 Ventus 3X | |
KFA2 GeForce RTX 3080 SG | |
AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT | |
Inno3D GeForce RTX 3060 Twin X2 | |
AMD Radeon RX 6800 | |
AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT | |
AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT | |
1920x1080 High Graphics Quality (DX11) | |
AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT | |
MSI GeForce RTX 3090 Suprim X | |
Inno3D GeForce RTX 3060 Twin X2 | |
MSI GeForce RTX 3070 Ventus 3X | |
AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT | |
KFA2 GeForce RTX 3080 SG | |
MSI GeForce RTX 3080 Gaming X Trio | |
AMD Radeon RX 6800 | |
AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT | |
AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT | |
3840x2160 Ultra Graphics Quality (DX11) | |
MSI GeForce RTX 3090 Suprim X | |
AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT | |
KFA2 GeForce RTX 3080 SG | |
AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT | |
MSI GeForce RTX 3080 Gaming X Trio | |
AMD Radeon RX 6800 | |
MSI GeForce RTX 3070 Ventus 3X | |
AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT | |
Inno3D GeForce RTX 3060 Twin X2 | |
AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT |
Crysis Remastered | |
1920x1080 Very High Preset AA:SM | |
KFA2 GeForce RTX 3080 SG | |
MSI GeForce RTX 3090 Suprim X | |
AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT | |
AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT | |
AMD Radeon RX 6800 | |
MSI GeForce RTX 3070 Ventus 3X | |
MSI GeForce RTX 3080 Gaming X Trio | |
Inno3D GeForce RTX 3060 Twin X2 | |
AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT | |
1920x1080 High Preset AA:SM | |
KFA2 GeForce RTX 3080 SG | |
AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT | |
MSI GeForce RTX 3090 Suprim X | |
AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT | |
AMD Radeon RX 6800 | |
MSI GeForce RTX 3080 Gaming X Trio | |
MSI GeForce RTX 3070 Ventus 3X | |
Inno3D GeForce RTX 3060 Twin X2 | |
AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT | |
3840x2160 Very High Preset AA:SM | |
KFA2 GeForce RTX 3080 SG | |
MSI GeForce RTX 3090 Suprim X | |
AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT | |
MSI GeForce RTX 3080 Gaming X Trio | |
MSI GeForce RTX 3070 Ventus 3X | |
AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT | |
AMD Radeon RX 6800 | |
Inno3D GeForce RTX 3060 Twin X2 | |
AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT |
F1 2021 | |
1920x1080 Ultra High Preset + Raytracing AA:T AF:16x | |
KFA2 GeForce RTX 3080 SG | |
AMD Radeon RX 6800 | |
AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT | |
Inno3D GeForce RTX 3060 Twin X2 | |
AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT | |
1920x1080 High Preset AA:T AF:16x | |
KFA2 GeForce RTX 3080 SG | |
AMD Radeon RX 6800 | |
AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT | |
AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT | |
Inno3D GeForce RTX 3060 Twin X2 | |
3840x2160 Ultra High Preset + Raytracing AA:T AF:16x | |
KFA2 GeForce RTX 3080 SG | |
AMD Radeon RX 6800 | |
AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT | |
Inno3D GeForce RTX 3060 Twin X2 | |
AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT |
low | med. | high | ultra | QHD | 4K | |
GTA V (2015) | 186.9 | 186.1 | 182 | 128.2 | 129.5 | 169.6 |
The Witcher 3 (2015) | 425 | 407 | 321 | 165.1 | 131.8 | |
Dota 2 Reborn (2015) | 211.4 | 186.6 | 175.8 | 160.95 | 156.4 | |
Rise of the Tomb Raider (2016) | 441 | 286 | 232 | 197.4 | 102.2 | |
Final Fantasy XV Benchmark (2018) | 223 | 196.5 | 156.2 | 125.5 | 76.7 | |
X-Plane 11.11 (2018) | 159.4 | 143.2 | 114.7 | 98.7 | ||
Far Cry 5 (2018) | 194 | 171 | 162 | 151 | 147 | 102 |
Strange Brigade (2018) | 545 | 422 | 356 | 314 | 236 | 141.5 |
Shadow of the Tomb Raider (2018) | 236 | 209 | 207 | 196.1 | 146.7 | 82.7 |
Far Cry New Dawn (2019) | 154 | 136 | 131 | 118 | 116 | 98 |
Metro Exodus (2019) | 210 | 178 | 145 | 117.7 | 97.9 | 65.2 |
Anno 1800 (2019) | 126.6 | 123.7 | 94 | 51.6 | 49.7 | 47.8 |
Control (2019) | 240 | 220 | 166.8 | 112.1 | 57.9 | |
Borderlands 3 (2019) | 166.2 | 150 | 139.2 | 128.5 | 104 | 59.9 |
F1 2020 (2020) | 412 | 351 | 339 | 263 | 206 | 124.6 |
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) | 216 | 200 | 175 | 155 | 132 | 80 |
Crysis Remastered (2020) | 320 | 346 | 176.6 | 162.3 | 123.5 | 72.7 |
Mafia Definitive Edition (2020) | 196.6 | 179.1 | 162.7 | 136 | 79.2 | |
Watch Dogs Legion (2020) | 123 | 118.1 | 107.8 | 95.2 | 83.5 | 55.2 |
Dirt 5 (2020) | 303 | 227 | 194 | 154 | 125 | 83 |
Immortals Fenyx Rising (2020) | 142 | 140 | 136 | 129 | 112 | 78 |
F1 2021 (2021) | 509 | 463 | 379 | 201 | 157.3 | 93.5 |
New World (2021) | 173.1 | 129.2 | 116.1 | 113.5 | 103.9 | 67.6 |
Far Cry 6 (2021) | 150.4 | 113.4 | 104.7 | 100.2 | 92.2 | 57.2 |
Guardians of the Galaxy (2021) | 139 | 148 | 147 | 143 | 141 | 100 |
Riders Republic (2021) | 236 | 208 | 173 | 162 | 124 | 73 |
Forza Horizon 5 (2021) | 257 | 171 | 159 | 106 | 94 | 71 |
Farming Simulator 22 (2021) | 277 | 230 | 197 | 181.5 | 179.4 | 133.4 |
God of War (2022) | 182.7 | 163 | 138.8 | 100.8 | 85.5 | 60.1 |
Rainbow Six Extraction (2022) | 379 | 275 | 273 | 239 | 168 | 96 |
Dying Light 2 (2022) | 157.8 | 132.9 | 116 | 86.5 | 50 | |
Elden Ring (2022) | 60 | 60 | 60 | 60 | 60 | 60 |
Ghostwire Tokyo (2022) | 206 | 196.3 | 195.4 | 192.5 | 165.8 | 86.7 |
Tiny Tina's Wonderlands (2022) | 276 | 237 | 183.7 | 152.7 | 112.6 | 63.9 |
Vampire Bloodhunt (2022) | 408 | 300 | 294 | 277 | 214 | 115.8 |
Compute Performance
In our render tests, the KFA2 GeForce RTX 3080 SG 12 GB performed very well against its own in-house competitors. It came within striking distance of the much more expensive Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090, which was only 7 % faster in our performance ranking. Having said that Nvidia GPUs cannot compete against AMD’s RDNA2-generation of GPUs, which outperformed its competitors handily every time. Keep in mind that your individual workload will heavily influence overall compute performance, and you should thus take a look at each individual test when choosing a GPU for general purpose GPU computing.