RTX 3090 Only Slightly More Efficient in Games Than 3080
The latest benchmarks suggest little performance difference in games between the RTX 3090 and 3080.
RTX 3080 was sold out in a few minutes. This is probably due to the fact that we are dealing with a product with a fantastic price/quality ratio. Will it be the same with the top model RTX 3090? We don't know, because 1499 dollars is a cosmic amount. Moreover, the latest results in unofficial benchmarks of a Chinese Teclab show that the average advantage of 3090 over RTX 3080 in games is only 10%.
However, such a turn of events is not too surprising when we look at the specs of both cards, because they do not differ too much from each other. The only noticeable changes compared to RTX 3080 is a wider, 384-bit memory bus in RTX 3090 and, of course, as much as 24 GB of VRAM. However, performance results clearly show that most modern games even in 4K will require no more than 10 or even 8 GB of memory. In this field, the strongest card of the Ampere family is not the best, but its applications will be rather different than gaming, because such a large memory buffer will be useful in complex professional applications, where every gigabyte is worth its weight in gold. For gamers, this means that they should rest east, because it's unlikely that the RTX 3080 will lack VRAM in some game in the near future.
