It's best to compare it to a regular 2080, as that is what it is directly replacing. Drivers are still immature on the 3XXX series and no supplemental cards are out yet (Supers, Ti, etc.). Compared to a 2080 it is a huge upgrade across the board. Obviously if you have a higher end previous-gen card than the 3080 equivalent, margins will be lower, and especially if you also have that card overclocked like your 2080Ti. I can understand why that is an interesting comparison but it isn't as relevant because most 2080Ti owners will be looking at the 3080Ti for a possible replacement, not the 3080.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Hardware Unboxed did their objective testing on 14 games and the 3080 was a minimum of 22% faster and an average of 30% faster than the 2080Ti at 4K (some titles over 40%), and an average of 21% faster at 1440P across the same. Compared to the regular 2080 it was 68% faster at 4K (over 80% in some games) and 47% faster at 1440P on average. That's pretty good for a single generation. I don't know why some people were expecting 80% across the board, not even Nvidia was claiming that from anything I have seen anyway.
The 3080 and above is primarily targeted at 4K gamers, and as with every other GPU, gains will of course be lower at lower resolutions as the CPU becomes more of the bottleneck.
Price/performance and performance/watt are better than last gen which is a win in my books. As for how much better it should be in those categories, I guess that's up for debate.
I'm not sure the 3080Ti will be as impressive this time around because the 3080 is (apparently) closer to the 3090/Titan in performance than the previous gen equivalents to the Titan models. Huge amounts of VRAM doesn't matter as much as people think it does for a lot of games, but certainly there are some scenarios where it can be very beneficial. I'm not sure if the 3080Ti will be the 20GB variant or if there will simply be a 3080 with 20GB. I'm sure it'll still be an excellent card but I'm curious to see how much better it is than a 3080. The other thing I found interesting is that this time around the 3080 and 3090/Titan both use the GA102 GPU. Historically, only the Ti card would share the GPU with the Titan/Flagship model, so that is another reason why the 3080 might be closer to the 3080Ti than with previous generations, but we will have to wait and see. The Ti/Titan GPUs themselves also usually perform better in creative software than the "gaming" models (XX80 and below), but that may not be the case this year with the 3080 sharing the same GPU.
I use my GPU for a lot of photo processing work that will max it out 100%, so I'm especially curious to see how much faster Ampere will be for those workloads - nobody benchmarks that though unfortunately that I have ever seen.
I think for anyone building a new PC this fall, Ampere and Ryzen 5000 are going to be a pretty incredible combo.