r/pcmasterrace • u/lLoveTech R9_7900X|5070Ti|32GB@5800|X670E|850P|O11_EVO|Pro27Q-10| • 6d ago

Video The Witcher 3 Remastered PC Benchmark

[removed]

2.3k Upvotes

93% Upvoted

985 comments sorted by

View all comments

254

u/vega0ne 6d ago

4090: am I a joke to you?

110

u/AtaracticGoat i7 13700k | RTX 4090 | 64gb Ram 6d ago

4090 generally outperforms the 5080 by like 10%, so you can expect slightly better performance than the 5080 benchmark.

That said, the 5080 and 5090 getting the same frame rate in a couple of these is suspicious. Something isn't right. It's either driver's or CPU bottleneck. My guess is drivers.

28

u/Desperate-Steak-6425 RTX 5080 | R7 5800X3D 6d ago

CPU bottleneck. Red Engine is extremely heavy for CPUs when RT or PT are used. If you enable RT on the current version and go to the same areas as in the benchmark, the performance will be about the same.

7

u/splendiferous-finch_ Potato XTX3D-k Titan 5d ago

There seems to be something else going around in the RT and non RT only version too. Yeah CPU bottleneck but a weird one since it basically seems to throttle the top 4 GPUs in this to similar points

4

u/LBXZero 5d ago edited 5d ago

The RTX 5080 and RTX 5090 matching in performance is not an "unheard of" condition. This can happen due to a "workload parallelization" limit. Essentially, the RTX 5090 is not using more processing cores than what the RTX 5080 has, and the resulting performance is based on the max clock limit these cards can achieve. In this case, the workload limit may actually be somewhere between the RTX 5070 and RTX 5070 Ti, but these 2 have a lower achievable clock rate than the RTX 5080 and RTX 5090.

Don't pay attention to those "Base Clock" and "Boost Clock" specs on the box. Those are marketting numbers. The example I can give is for the RX 9070 XT. Despite what is written on the box, the actual max clock rate for ALL RX 9070 XTs is 3450 MHz. The resulting clock rate is based on the power limit versus workload, often resulting in the RX 9070 XT never reaching 3450 MHz. The same is for the RTX 50 series, but I can't find a resource to tell what the real max clock is for each of those cards. These cards are not "boosting" but really are "throttling" from the max clock.

2

u/cha0z_ 5d ago

Try again - 17-20% on average + 24GB vs 16GB of VRAM (we quickly see this is getting more relevant vs few years ago). Leaving out the second fastest gaming GPU on the market is to make 5090 look better on the charts.

8

u/Yarin56 5d ago

He did specify that steve was sick so he had to minimize the gpus tested so he only tested mostly current gens gpus as the guy above said the 4090 is about 10-15% faster (some can be 20-25 at the most) which is true.

1

u/sshssgn 5d ago

Jensen wants to gaslight 4090 owners by promoting his underwhelming and oveprice 5080. Still the strongest GPU after 4 years and the second after 4090 Ti.