Nvidia's Last Good GPU - RTX 3080 10GB in 2023

nvidia's RTX 30 series of gpus will always be remembered for one thing their lack of stock when they launched I know that because I waited two long years to finally upgrade to one of them and I haven't even done a proper benchmarking video on my 380 yet which ends now because I've tested it at 1080P 1440p and 4K to see how this Amper Beast gets on in 2023 and spoiler alert it gets on pretty well this RTX 380 is my person personal daily driver it plays all of the games that I want to play and more importantly it's rendered every single video that you watch here on the YouTube channel for the past year which is probably more important I bought it for £550 used back in 2022 which I thought was not a bad deal at the time especially as that was sort of on the tail end of the crypto mining boom so I thought it wasn't a bad deal however in 2023 you can find it for just over £400 on the used Market with some listings even going for less than £400 which I've seen which is not bad if you need the Nvidia feature set for the 400 to £450 you shell out you will get 874 cuticles 10 GB of gddr 6X memory running through a 320 bit memory BS the Samsung 8 nanometer process also kicks out some heat with a whopping 320 W TDP on the RTX 380 and let me tell you now this thing is pretty hard to call the model that I'm using is the Nvidia Founders Edition and unlike most 38s is only a dual slot graphics card but it does get pretty toasty and pretty load in a lot of gaming scenarios so there is that and it's also a massive pain to take apart cuz there's just ribbon cables and torque screws all over the place but man is this corer unique with its weird pass through design of I think that's what it's called I'm not sure off the top of my head but enough of that though how does the RTX 380 get on in 2023 so to find out I put it into my main system mainly because I didn't want to take it out and put it into the test bench but that's okay cuz my main system has an Intel Core i7 13700 K 32 GB of ddr5 memory running in jaw Channel 5600 MHz CL 36 an MSI z690 Force Wi-Fi motherboard and a Samsung 980 Pro nvme Gen 4 SSD all of the parts for which are linked in the description below I've undervolted the core of the RTX 380 by- 75 molts which should help with the heat output and I've overclocked the memory by 850 MHz which should help with gaming performance as well all testing has been done at 1080P 1440p and 4K without the aid of upscaling like dlss or FSR and I've also tested on the latest NVIDIA drivers which the version will be noted down there cuz I don't know off the top of my head the first game up for the RTX 380 today is cyberpunk 2077 this was recently up updated with the Phantom Liberty 2.0 update which is what is currently running right now so this is as up to date as it gets at 1080p the RX 38 he got 122 FPS on average with a 1% low of 87 FPS yeah if you wanted to play supery Punk at 1080p on a 3080 for some reason yeah it's totally payable switching up to 1440 PC the average drop to 86 FPS and the 1% low dropped to 60 FPS this is still very playable on the ultra preset and if you were to do some tweaking with let's say the reflections you probably could get around 100 FPS on average if you were to really do some tweaking in this game and then onto 4K the average drops even lower to just 38 FPS on average and a 1% low of just 26 I don't recommend the ultra preset at 4K with the RTX 380 I would recommend doing some tweaking I'd have to say and this will probably become a trend with this video 1440p is definitely The Sweet Spot here enabling rate racing for cyberpunk 2077 and setting that to ultra at 1080p the RTX 380 gets just 60 FPS on average with a 1% low of 49 this CAU the average in half from the rasterization performance at 1440p the story pretty much stays true here as on average the 380 got 40 FPS on average with a 1% low of 28 this is not something that I'd consider playable especially if you're spending over £400 on a graphics card at 1440 pck and 4K is an absolute joke with Raad tracing getting just 15 FPS on average with a 1% low of just 7 yeah that's single digit on an RTX 380 next up is f123 and this is the newest F1 game that there is today and here I set it to the ultra preset with no R tracing here at 1080p the 380 got 184 FPS on average with a 1% low of 139 very nice performance at 1080p that is not too bad at all switching up to 1440p sees a drop of the average frame rate to 152 and a 1% low of 125 still if you've got a 144 HZ monitor this is very nice performance right here switching this up to 4K sees the average drop further down to 101 FPS on average with a 1% low of 86 so the rasterization performance in f123 is very nice and is certainly playable at all of these resolutions turning on R tracing in f123 is not really worth it in my opinion but I've tested it regardless at 1080p this drops the average down by 80 fps to 104 FPS on average with a 1% low of 85 switching up to 1440 piec the average dropped to 73 FPS and the 1% low is still above 60 at 61 this performance isn't particularly ideal for a racing game and I wouldn't recommend RT at all in F1 123 and my verdict from that stays the same at 4K is it will drop down to just 39 FPS on average we have a 1% low of 30 FPS rate tracing is not really worth it in f123 it doesn't really improve the Fidelity that much it's nothing noticeable at least especially if you driving very fast which you're going to be in an F1 car so just leave it at rasterization performance in f123 because it does perform quite well with it next game up is Call Of Duty Modern Warfare 2 and to try and avoid some CPU bottleneck I've set it to the balanced preset here and at 1080p the 380 got 162 FPS on average with a 1% low of 121 this is some great performance at 1080P and yeah I don't think you'll be having any problems there switching up to 440p still seees some great performance with 149 FPS on average and a 1% low of 103 FPS this is still great for a competitive experience if you've got a 144 HZ panel switching up to 4K sees that average dropped to 92 FPS on average with a 1% low of 62 still very playable in my opinion but if you've got like an lged that's 120 htz maybe drop this down to the minimum or basic preset and keep the textures on high and you'll probably be getting a lot more frame rate right there so that is something that I'd recommend fortnite is up next and this is a game that I like to test at very low settings mainly because it's a competitive game and you're going to want as many frames as possible so here I set it to dx12 with a low preset but I kept the view distance on high along with the textures and at 1080p this netted 385 FPS on average with a 1% low of 239 great performance at 1080p maybe slightly CPU bound switching up to 440 PC the average dropped to 308 FPS with 199 FPS for the 1% low still very good performance and even at 4K even though you're probably not playing this game at 4K you're still going to get 194 FPS on average with a 1% low of 137 this is some absolutely incredible performance out of fortnite and it still looks very crisp especially at the higher resolution so if you want to get into some competitive fortnite I think the RTX 380 is going to be enough for you for Horizon 5 is up next and this racing game from Microsoft from 2021 has been set to the extreme preset probably not a preset I'd recommend playing with but even so with the 380 you're going to be fine because at 1080p it got 123 FPS on average with 1% low of 104 and switching up to 440 PCS this dropped down to 113 FPS with 97 FPS for the 1% low so there probably was a bit of a CPU but on NE at 1080p which has been alleviated somewhat at 1440p switching on to 4K sees this dropped down to 79 FPS on average with a 1% low of 69 FPS at 4K fora Horizon 5 looks absolutely incredible and you'll be having a great Racing Experience maybe drop it down to the ultra preset and you'll get more frames which you might enjoy at the high resolutions next up is Starfield and this is the newest game on the list today and it's probably the hardest to run that is because at 1080p with the hardware unboxed optimized preset with no fsrt the 380 got 94 FPS on average with 1% low of 80 FPS which is not too bad and at 1440p this drops down to 75 FPS on average with 64 FPS for the 1% low and finally moving to 4K this drops down to below 60 FPS getting 50 FPS on average with 37 for the 1% low both Nvidia and beesa have got some work to do to improve the performance of Starfield on Nvidia graphics cards and I do believe dlss is officially coming to the game at some point it is on their list of things to do so that might be something to look out for as well but Starfield is playable on the 380 doat Turnal is a slightly old the game but it is a very pretty game at that and setting it to the ultra nightmare preset here with no Ray tracing and at 1080p the 380 got 349 FPS on average with a 1% low of 248 switching this up to 440 PCS that average drop to 287 FPS with have a 1% low of 203 and then at 4K it's still above 144 FPS getting 169 FPS on average with a 1% low of 136 so if you've got an LG OLED which is 120 HZ Doom Eternal is going to be very playable absolutely maxed out on rasterization there's going to be no performance problems here at all with the 38 enabling gr rating in Doom maternal doesn't impact the frame rate as much as it does in games like cyberpunk and f123 this is because at 1080p it drops the average down to 240 FPS and the 1% lad does drop down ever so slightly to 186 at 440p this average goes down to 184 and the 1% low goes down to 144 still very playable if you've got a 165 or a 144 HZ monitor that performance is not too bad there either and then finally at 4K we finally get above 60 FPS in a rate racing game that is because with rate racing in abled in Doom maternal the 38 he got 93 FPS on average with 77 FPS for the 1% low so it's a full house in Doom maternal it plays very well and even at 4K if you wanted to enable dlss on quality you'd get a few more frames there as well and the game will be smoother for basically zero quality loss last game up today is Horizon zero Dawn and this is a pretty vram intensive game so I wanted to see how bad it would have been at 4K with a 10 GB 38 but starting off with 1080p it got 177 FPS on average with 119 FPS for the 1% low and then 1440p sees this average Dro down to 147 with a 1% low of 101 and then 4K does see the frame rate drop quite a bit with the average going down to 86 FPS and average with a 1% low of 71 but in all fairness Horizon zero Dawn isn't a competitive shooter 86 frames in this game at 4K is totally fine in my opinion so from the data that I've gaed today I can conclude the following the RTX 380 is still stupidly powerful for 1080p gaming with most of the games tested today getting north of 160 FPS and these were story games too where Fidelity matters more like Horizon zero Dawn I would rather take 1440p or 4K any day and take the FPS droing games like Horizon zero Dawn because the frame rate doesn't really matter as long as I'm getting at least 90 or 100 in games like that I don't really care every game tested at 1440p got at least 60 FPS which is great to see as 1440p is a very popular resolution and even if you want to play competitive games like fortnite and Rainbow Six Siege 1440p is a totally doable resolution for an RTX 380 I can't believe I'm really saying that to be honest cuz this graphics card is still a beast 4K is still very doable on this card as well with most rasterized games getting above 60 FPS on average and even the ones where you do actually get below 60 FPS you always have the aid of dlss and in games where it's absent AMD is FSR I do recommend using dlss when you got it available which you do on an RTX 38 because it is the superior upscaling method and if you enable dlss at 1440p and 4K you won't notice any quality loss at all in most games out there unless if your pixel p deep in so it's basically free performance and if dlss or FSR aren't available you can always just lower the preset down from Ultra to high I'd rather take the quality of 4K and the extra frame rate over the ultra preset because the ultra preset in a lot of games isn't necessarily the best preset in terms of graphical quality yes but in terms of performance and sort of performance value I guess Ultra isn't the best the only reason I've tested at Ultra today is just to see what this graphics card can do when it's absolutely maxed out rate tracing is also a bit of a mixed bag with the RTX 380 as well I would definitely recommend using upscaling Technologies here if a game's got R tracing is more than likely going to have dlss in it so I would at least enable dlss at quality if you're playing with raid tracing at 1440p and 4K and I would only recommend raid tracing if you've got the performance to spare so say if you're getting like 120 frames in cyber Punk it might be worth enabling R tra racing to get some extra Fidelity right there but if you're going to be dropping down to below 60 FPS I don't think Raad tracing is worth the performance hit in my opinion but it's definitely capable of Raad tracing as long as you tweak your settings a bit at 1080P and 1440p it's pretty much a no compromis gaming experience playing on this graphics card you will have to make some sacrifices at 4K but that's okay this isn't an RTX 490 and you only paid around £400 for this graphics card card if you're buying it used today which I think this is a very good deal do bear in mind though I would recommend the 12 gigb model for 4K gaming as it does have the extra 2 GB of vram which will help out at higher resolutions in newer games a lot of the games that we tested today were seeing 9.5 GB of usage which the game was calling for so I think it become a problem in newer games which are very vram hungry I love my RTX 380 and and I don't see myself upgrading it anytime soon it literally does everything I need it to do and more to be honest I probably don't need this power because the most intensive games that I really play is probably Starfield at the minute and that's just down to driver optimizations on Nvidia side and a bit of game optimization on beesa side I do mainly play older games though other than Starfield and the RTX 38 is totally overkill for these also with my video editing even though it's got 12 GB of frame buffer it's never been a problem working with Sony 4K footage so that's another thing right there as well I don't need to upgrade it for this the only thing I don't really like about it is the power consumption and the founders Edition does get quite hot and it does run quite loud in some gaming sessions which is a bit annoying but I think that's a bit down to my case's air flow as well it's not particularly brilliant so that is another thing to know right there also the 10 GB of vram could be a bit of a problem if I wanted to play at 4K like if I wanted to hook it up to my LG OLED it could become a bit of a problem in some games but to be honest I'm not really that concerned with it so if you want to watch some more GPU benchmarks make sure you check out these two videos right here they might be right up your alley and if you stuck around this long I want to thank you and maybe even ask you for a like if you like the video and maybe subscribe if you want to watch more Tech content so with that being said I'm going to catch you in the next one

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Published: Sun Oct 01 2023