IMAGE: BRAD CHACOS NOVEMBER 2020 PCWorld 69T
he GeForce RTX 3080 is a monster.
Nvidia promised that the
Ampere GPU-powered RTX
30-series GPUs would be the
company’s “greatest generational leap” ever
(go.pcworld.com/gnlp), and it wasn’t
exaggerating. The $699 GeForce RTX 3080
Founders Edition absolutely demolishes its
predecessors in performance while working
in all sorts of technological advances. It’s oneof the best graphics card upgrades(go.
pcworld.com/gcup) we’ve seen in a long,
long time.
You can read every nitty-gritty detail in our
comprehensive review of Nvidia’s GeForce
RTX 3080 Founders Edition (go.pcworld.
com/ferv). But if you don’t feel like sifting
through thousands of words of technical and
testing details, here are the five key things you
need to know.Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 tested:
5 key things you need to know
Don’t have time for endless charts and technical-ese? Read this. BY BRAD CHACOS