To nip a question in the bud, we do not have a second RTX 3080 to do proper dual-GPU testing with that. We’re going to help answer that with this article, where we combine the use of RTX 3080 with each last-gen GeForce RTX card, as well as the Pascal-based GTX 1080 Ti for good measure. It might mean that the last-gen cards are not as impressive as they seemed to be a couple of months ago, but those who are able to score one of the new cards will be enjoying some satisfying performance.īut… there’s always room for “moar power”, right? With this launch, we noticed a higher than the usual number of people questioning whether or not they should keep their old GPU around to tag-team with their new RTX 3080 (or 3090) for an added rendering boost. We can’t look back at the previous Turing generation and call it “weak”, but when it comes to rendering, the gains NVIDIA has delivered with Ampere is seriously impressive. And, it’s unfortunate, because these new GPUs are crazy fast, for either gaming or creation. The fact that we can’t even mention the new cards without hearing, “Yeah, cool – if you could buy them.” is rather telling about the current state of things. The launch of NVIDIA’s first Ampere-based GeForces has been eventful, to say the least.

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