When Nvidia said the new GeForce RTX 3080 was twice as fast as the RTX 2080, it seemed like a big claim However, early benchmarks show how this new Amepre-based GPU crushed its Turing-based predecessor

A series of benchmarks posted online and found by VideoCardz show that the RTX 3080 completely stomps the RTX 2080 and even outperforms the RTX 2080 Ti, once Nvidia's top-of-the-line consumer GPU graphics card It has been shown that

The benchmarks in question were not about in-game scores, but about OpenCL and CUDA performance But simply put, it shows that the RTX 3080 is up to twice as fast as the RTX 2080 and 60 percent faster than the RTX 2080 Ti in the CUDA benchmark

On average, the RTX 3080 was about 68 percent faster than its predecessor and 38 percent faster than the RTX 2080 Ti in CUDA testing; in OpenCL testing, the RTX 3080 beat the other cards by an average of 68 percent and 41 percent, respectively

It is worth noting that Nvidia has not confirmed these performance results and that it is still early days for the GeForce RTX 3080 This means that higher performance could be achieved if driver updates facilitate optimization

Nvidia has already released a video showing Doom Eternal running at 4K on Ultra settings on the RTX 3080 outperforming the RTX 2080 Ti by 50 percent If you have an RTX 2080 Ti and $699 is sitting in your pocket, upgrading to the RTX 3080 may be worth it

However, AMD plans to release the Big Navi graphics card this fall, so you may want to wait to purchase this GPU This GPU is being touted as an "Nvidia killer," and there are leaked reports that it will outperform the RTX 2080 Ti by 40-50% In (rough) theory, it would be comparable to the RTX 3080

We will have to wait for AMD Big Navi to finally reveal it But for PC gamers, fall is going to be an interesting time to get a new graphics card