In-Game Benchmarks
Now we finally get into the in game performance and that is the main reason people pick up a new video card. To test things out I ran through our new benchmark suite that tests 10 games at three different resolutions (1080p, 1440p, and 4k). Most of the games tested have been run at the highest detail setting and a mid-range detail setting to get a look at how turning things up hurts performance and to give an idea of if turning detail down from max will be beneficial for frame rates. In total, each video card is tested 54 times and that makes for a huge mess of results when you put them all together. To help with that I like to start with these overall playability graphs that take all of the results and give an easier-to-read result. I have one for each of the three resolutions and each is broken up into four FPS ranges. Under 30 FPS is considered unplayable, over 30 is playable but not ideal, over 60 is the sweet spot, and then over 120 FPS is for high refresh rate monitors.
So how did the 4080 Gaming X Trio do when we step back and look at the results by resolution? Well like with the RTX 4080 Founders Edition, it blew through both 1080p and 1440p with each of our tests coming in at over 120 FPS at both resolutions. Only at 4k can we really see how it performed at all because that is the only resolution that has results below 120 FPS. The 4080 Gaming X Trio has 9 results over 120 FPS and 7 were in between 60 and 119. This is an improvement when compared to the Founders Edition card which has 8 and 8.
Of course, I have all of the actual in game results as well for anyone who wants to sort through the wall of graphs below. Just like with the RTX 4080 Founders Edition the 4080 Gaming X Trio performed consistently in every game except CS:GO. The 4080 Gaming X Trio came in ahead of the stock-clocked Founders Edition in each test and is still well behind the big brother RTX 4090. Our CS:GO number, specifically at 4K is the odd man out with both 4080s performing down below the older RTX 3080. The overclock on the 4080 Gaming X Trio did help it gain 6 FPS at 4k which helped bump it past a few cards but still behind the others. I have reached out to Nvidia to see what they think the issue is, but my theory is that with the crazy frame rates that CS:GO is seeing that the smaller 256-bit memory interface is the limit here which is why the 3080 and 2080 Ti which have a bigger interface performed better and the 4080 Gaming X Trio was right with the 3070 Ti which also had a 256-bit interface. All of that said though this is just a big first-world problem as 311 FPS itself is more than any monitor right now can do at 4k and is also more than DisplayPort 1.4, which is what all of the 4000 Series cards have, is capable of. Beyond that I averaged out the 1440p and 4k performance numbers but removed CS:GO to keep its crazy high results from messing up the average and we can see that the 4080 Gaming X Trio with its small overclock did outperform the Founders Edition at 4k by 2% and 1% at 1440p putting the 3080 Ti 25% behind the 4080 Gaming X Trio at 4k as well.
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|
1440p Average FPS |
% -/+ to the 4080 perf |
4k Average FPS |
% -/+ to the 4080 perf |
|
RTX 4090 |
195 |
+6% |
158 |
+23% |
|
4080 Gaming X Trio |
184 |
0% |
128 |
0% |
|
RTX 4080 |
182 |
-1% |
126 |
-2% |
|
RTX 3090 Ti |
153 |
-17% |
106 |
-17% |
|
RTX 3080 Ti |
151 |
-18% |
96 |
-25% |
