Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
The best card for 4K gaming
Pros
- Excellent performance in 4K
- Ray tracing support
- Future-proofed connectivity
Cons
- The performance gains you get don’t fully justify how much more expensive it is over the regular RTX 3080
The Nvidia RTX 3080 Ti will soon be superseded by the newer RTX 4080, which Nvidia claims is between 2x and 4x faster, but as we haven’t benchmarked and tested the newer GPU just yet, we can’t recommend it at the moment.
For the short-term future, the 3080 Ti is the card we can recommend for high-end 4K gaming – though honestly, we’d suggest waiting and seeing how the 4080 performs before pulling the trigger.
The 3080 Ti was, and remains, a powerhouse graphics card that delivered excellent speeds in all of our tests. Demanding titles, including Cyberpunk 2077, ran with their graphics maxed and ray tracing on in 4K. Online shooters like Call of Duty and Battlefield universally failed to ever drop below 100fps even in their highest settings in our bench, which included 16GB DDR4 memory and a Intel Core i9-9900KF.
The only downside is that, based on our experience, it’s an outright power hog that demands a top-of-the-line PSU. Nvidia also didn’t manage to leave much room for overclocking, with the Founders Edition version we tested generally failing or overheating with even minor clock speed boosts.
Reviewer: Alastair Stevenson
Full review: Nvidia RTX 3080 review