PC World - USA (2021-03)

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next unless you are doing it for the huge

boosts in content creation advances.

When every laptop is its own package,

our first review of a new component isn’t our

definitive one. We’ll have a better feel for RTX

30-series laptops after we’ve tested another

half-dozen or more. But clearly, it can do very

well indeed.

the BMW GPU test. The GeForce RTX 2080
Super took about 36 seconds, while the
GeForce RTX 3080 finished in just 19
seconds—basically half the time.
We also used IndigoBench, a GPU-based
renderer. The results are in M Samples per
second, and a longer bar is better. The 3080
turns in a score about 83 percent higher.
Our last content creation test uses V-Ray
Next’s GPU render to measure performance
of the GPUs. The GeForce RTX 3080 is about
104 percent faster than the RTX 2080. We
also culled results from Puget Systems, which
put the GeForce RTX 3080 mobile ahead of a
GeForce RTX 2080 Ti and Titan RTX.

BOTTOM LINE
Overall, we think the GeForce RTX 3080 is
indeed the best mobile GPU available right
now. To be fair, it’s not much of a bar to set if all
you have to be is better than the previous GPU.
Don’t let your expectations be warped by the
stunning GeForce RTX 3080 desktop card.
Once we settled back into the reality that a
laptop...is a laptop...is a laptop, we could
acknowledge that seeing 15- to 25-percent
improvements in graphically intensive games,
and even more with ray-traced titles, is quite
respectable.
Would we upgrade from an RTX 20-series
laptop? Probably not, unless it’s a bigger step
such as a side move of going from an RTX
2060 to something faster. It rarely makes
sense to upgrade from one generation to the

Blender 2.91 Optix

Performance

Seconds

Acer Predator Triton 5006-core Core i7-10750H

Gigabyte Aero 178-core Core-10870H

LONGER BARS INDICATE BETTER PERFORMANCE

35.8

19

Indigo Bedroom

Performance

M samples per second

Acer Predator Triton 5006-core Core i7-10750H

Gigabyte Aero 178-core Core-10870H

LONGER BARS INDICATE BETTER PERFORMANCE

6.2

11.3

V-Ray Next 4.10

GPU Performance

Acer Predator Triton 5006-core Core i7-10750H

GeForce RTX 2080Founders Edition

Titan RTX

Gigabyte Aero 178-core Core-10870H

LONGER BARS INDICATE BETTER PERFORMANCE

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