Following our initial unboxing, we are at last ready to deliver our performance review of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Founder's Edition graphics card, complete with benchmarks! With prices starting at $699 USD for reference cards, the RTX 3080 aims to bring NVIDIA's new Ampere GPU architecture to enthusiasts looking for a serious upgrade in performance over first generation RTX cards.

The $699 USD RTX 3080 FE is the new apex predator on planet GPU. With Ampere, NVIDIA is building on the innovations introduced with Turing while taking the performance levels up a few notches. The new architecture built on SAMSUNG's 8 nm custom process features an improved Streaming Multiprocessor design coupled with second-generation Ray Tracing cores and third-generation Tensor Cores. It allowed the Green Team to one-up itself and achieve spectacular performance gains over the first generation RTX cards.