[FPS Benchmarks] The Witcher 3 on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 (130W) and RTX 3080 (85W) – the 130W rival is 32% faster on average

LaptopMedia.com Összehasonlítások [FPS Benchmarks] The Witcher 3 on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 (130W) and RTX 3080 (85W) - the 130W rival is 32% faster on average

Ettől: Nikolay Palaozov 16 Július 2021 / 06:02 0

The Witcher 3 doesn’t need a special introduction because the game is a well-known title. It was released in 2015 but interestingly enough it still looks just fine for today’s standards. The game comes with a really long single-player story that includes many side quests and there are some additional DLC’s that add even more content to the base game.

As we said, visually the game looks decent even in 2021. In addition, it’s well-optimized and it runs even on iGPUs like the Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 (96EU) – of course, on Low settings. It’s not a problem to play this game with low-end dGPUs like the GeForce MX250, again, on Low settings. For our comparison, we have two very powerful NVIDIA Ampere GPUs – GeForce RTX 3080 (130W) and RTX 3080 (85W).

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

GeForce RTX 3080 variants

	GeForce RTX 3080 [130W]	GeForce RTX 3080 [85W]
Architecture	Ampere	Ampere
GPU chip	GA104	GA104
Shader units	6144	6144
ROPs	96	96
Base Clock (MHz)	up to 1185 (+52%)	780
Boost clock (MHz)	up to 1605 (+29%)	1245
Memory clock (MHz)	1750 (+17%)	1500
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 (+22%)	265 fps (+33%)	235 fps (+38%)	159 fps (+35%)
GeForce RTX 3080 [85W]	266 fps	199 fps	170 fps	117 fps

Verdict

At the end of the day, it looks like the 130W GPU is a lot faster at least when it comes to The Witcher 3. The bigger video card is 32% faster on average which is a big lead. On the other hand, the 85W GPU isn’t slow at all, it can show 117 FPS on Ultra quality which isn’t bad considering the reduced TGP and frequencies of this graphics solution.

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

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