Baldur’s Gate 3
Baldur’s Gate 3 is a highly acclaimed role-playing game set in the Forgotten Realms universe. Developed by Larian Studios, it offers a deep and immersive experience with turn-based combat, intricate storylines, and a vast world to explore. Players can create their own custom characters or choose from a roster of origin characters, each with their own unique backstories and motivations.
When looking at Baldur’s Gate 3, we don’t see as much of an increase with just a 15% rise in the averages, but we do see a drop of 7% in the lows when comparing to the RTX 4080. When we move up to the 4080 SUPER, the gains shrink, but still sees the 5080 packing 7% more performance overall, and again, the lows take a hit of 11%, though a part of me really wants to blame it on the drivers, as we’ve seen with the 5090 suddenly finding extra performance by updating them, and I feel that the 5080 may be in a similar boat in places. This does also put the 5080 11% behind the RTX 4090 in the averages, and only 8% ahead of AMD, though AMD really do come in much stronger in the lows.
Moving up to 4K and performance is where you’d expect it to be based on what we’ve seen so far with a 19% lead over the RTX 4080, and 12% lead over the 4080 SUPER and 7900 XTX which came in with identical averages. Now where things get really interesting, is how our 4080 didn’t do great in terms of the 1% lows, and because of that, the 5080 comes in with 39% more performance there, though retests could see this balance out a bit more. We do however, see a 14% lead in the lows over the 4080 SUPER, and 20% over AMD, so there’s definitely some strong performance coming from the new Blackwell GPU in this title, though still not enough to get close to the 4090, as it comes in with 14% less performance in the averages, and 10% less in the lows.
