Zotac GeForce RTX 2080 AMP Extreme Graphics Card Review

Ray Tracing & DLSS Testing
Ray Tracing was introduced with the new 20-series cards, that is of course why they are called “RTX” as opposed to “GTX”. With the new RT cores real-time ray tracing becomes a reality. Below you can see a demo of ray tracing and how it works.

Ray tracing is only available in the new 20-series cards and can only be used on games that support it. One of the first games to support ray tracing is Battlefield V. So what we’ve done is run through the same benchmarking sequence with ray tracing turn off, and then again with it turned on to see how it impacts performance.

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As you can see with ray tracing enabled performance does take a hit.

These new cards also feature Tensor cores, which excel at machine learning tasks. These cores enable Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS), which uses AI to smooth out gaming graphics. Again, you need a title that supports DLSS and luckily the Final Fantasy XV benchmark does. You can enable it in the custom settings.

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With it enabled we are only able to run the benchmark at 4K, but you can see the results below with DLSS on and off.

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DLSS definitely helps out with performance that’s for sure! But again your title has to support it. Here is a current list (December 2018) of what games will support DLSS.

  • Ark: Survival Evolved
  • Atomic Heart
  • Dauntless
  • Darksiders III
  • Deliver Us The Moon: Fortuna
  • Fear The Wolves
  • Final Fantasy XV: Windows Edition
  • Fractured Lands
  • Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice
  • Hitman 2
  • Islands of Nyne
  • Justice
  • JX3
  • KINETIK
  • Mechwarrior 5: Mercenaries
  • Outpost Zero
  • Overkill’s The Walking Dead
  • PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds.
  • Remnant: From The Ashes
  • SCUM
  • Serious Sam 4: Planet Badass
  • Shadow of the Tomb Raider
  • Stormdivers
  • The Forge Arena
  • We Happy Few

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