3DMark & Unigine
FireStrike
First impressions go a long way, and immediately we can see the RTX 2080 takes second place, right behind the 1080 Ti. What’s most surprising though is how close it is to the 1080 Ti. It’s nicely ahead of the GTX 1080 too, however, that was a factory overclocked Gigabyte G1, as is our RTX 2080. The Graphics Score is extremely close to the 1080 Ti too though.
FireStrike Extreme
Moving to 1440p, the performance gap from the 1080 Ti is even tighter, but here the RTX 2080 pulls a bigger lead from the older 1080 Ti.
FireStrike Ultra
A pattern emerging now, with the 4K resolution showing the RTX 2080 keeping a solid pace with the GTX 1080 Ti, while the GTX 1080 is clearly running out of steam at this point.
Unigine Superposition 1080p Extreme
Now, this is something I didn’t expect, at least when you look at our 3DMark performance. However, 3DMark relies on memory and CPU quite a bit too, while Unigine is very GPU bound overall. The RTX 2080 blasts into the lead by a truly shocking margin; keep in mind, this is the non-Ti version of the RTX 2080, so clearly Nvidia still have more performance to gain when we test that.
Unigine Superposition 4K Optimised
The gap closed a little at 4K, however, this is still a good gain over the 1080 Ti. Making any gain at this resolution isn’t easy and compared to the GTX 1080, it’s over 2000 points ahead of the older chipset.
