[FPS Benchmarks] The Witcher 3 on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 (130W) and RTX 3070 (130W) – the bigger GPU is 21% faster

LaptopMedia.com Comparisons [FPS Benchmarks] The Witcher 3 on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 (130W) and RTX 3070 (130W) - the bigger GPU is 21% faster

From: Nikolay Palaozov 02 May 2021 / 11:20 | 0

The Witcher 3 is one of the most successful PC games of the past decade. Probably most of you know that the game was first released for PC and after some time the console version was available too. Because of this, the title is a pure PC game that is well optimized and it’s not too hungry for video memory. This leads us to the point where some inexpensive dGPUs like the GeForce MX350 or iGPUs like AMD Radeon RX Vega 7 and Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000) can run the game fine (at least) on Low details.

The Witcher 3 isn’t the newest game on the market but it still looks okay for 2021. The title is popular even today because there are many visual enhancing mods as well as some others that add new in-game content like additional missions.

For this comparison, we decided to compare the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 (130W) and RTX 3070 (130W) using The Witcher 3 as a benchmark tool.

GeForce RTX 3080 and RTX 3070 variants
Synthetic benchmarks
Gaming tests and gameplay videos (ext. monitor)
Verdict

GeForce RTX 3080 and RTX 3070 variants

	GeForce RTX 3080 [130W]	GeForce RTX 3070 [130W]
Architecture	Ampere	Ampere
GPU chip	GA104	GA104
Shader units	6144 (+20%)	5120
ROPs	96	96
Base Clock (MHz)	up to 1185 (+7%)	1110
Boost clock (MHz)	up to 1605	1620 (+1%)
Memory clock (MHz)	1750	1750
Memory size (MB)	8192	8192
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR6
Memory bus width (bit)	256	256
TGP (Total Graphics Power)	130W	130W
DirectX version	12.1	12.1
Technology	8nm	8nm
RTX capabilities	Yes	Yes
Release date	01.2021	01.2021
Detailed specs	Link	Link

Synthetic benchmarks

Gaming tests and gameplay videos (ext. monitor)

The Witcher 3	Full HD, Low (Check settings)	Full HD, Medium (Check settings)	Full HD, High (Check settings)	Full HD, Ultra (Check settings)
GeForce RTX 3080 [130W]	324 fps (+21%)	265 fps (+21%)	235 fps (+21%)	159 fps (+19%)
GeForce RTX 3070 [130W, Intel CPU]	268 fps	219 fps	195 fps	134 fps

Verdict

For sure the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 (130W) showed its power in this test. It’s 21% faster on average when compared to the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 (130W) – not bad at all, that’s a decent lead. The RTX 3080 (130W) can show 159 FPS on average which is suitable for 144 Hz displays.

As always, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 (130W) did a good job too and its performance will be just fine for most gamers.

All laptops equipped with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 [130W]

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