During the Best Buy drop today, I FINALLY got a 3080. So unbelievably stoked, weeks of F5ing rewarded. Screw scalpers. Anyway, hopefully now I can manage a stable 240fps (I have a 240hz 1080p monitor) without low settings. Has anyone tried a 3080 in Overwatch? Even my 1080ti couldn’t maintain a smooth 240fps at Low, let alone anything above it.
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your 1080ti couldn’t hit 240 fps? Really? I would think it would’ve been able to, you were probably bottlenecked somewhere else.
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The 3080 won’t have a problem running 240fps, but so can the 1080ti.
What are your other specs?
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Yes if your CPU is good enough. Overwatch is an extremely easy to run game for a card that powerful. With every single setting at max including maximum anti aliasing and anisotropic filtering, my 2080 would do between 220 and 300 at all times but that is with an i9 9900K with all cores overclocked to run at 5ghz at all times.
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A smooth 240 fps. I could get 240 fps and hovered mostly around 300, but dipped during teamfights easily in the 100’s. My CPU is a ryzen 7 3800x and I have lightning fast RAM.
That’s strange then, something iffy was probably going on. But yeah your 3080 should be more than enough anyways. Congrats
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Thank you. I have never been able to maintain a solid 240 fps, no matter what settings. I am not sure what the bottleneck is, but I thought it was my GPU. Possibly even just that the game becomes too taxing once enough particle effects are on the screen. I will know for sure once I have the card in hand. I am debating whether I want to just buy a 1440p 144hz monitor instead of trying to maintain 240fps. Because then I will most certainly only be bottlenecks by my GPU.
FPS is dependent on a number of factors on your system from monitor, to graphics card, to PCI-E speed, to CPU , to HD speed (SSD better). Your bottleneck could be anywhere in there.
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RAM speed is also important. And if your CPU is a potato, it will not help. But I do not think you get any value in 240hz. The effect is best going from 60hz to 120hz, over that, it is not really noticable.
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The 1080Ti is honestly complete overkill for 1080p on low. Your bottleneck is almost certainly your CPU or ram. Hopefully this wont make you too sad, but I would be utterly shocked if your 3080 improves your performance at all.
And after reading further, if your CPU and RAM seem good then you have another issue. I’ve seen players with worse setups maintain a solid 300. I myself have a 1080Ti with a 4770k and modest at best RAM and I can easily maintain over 144hz (usually 200+). The only time it ever dips is really in total mayhem with a lot going on, and even then the FPS counter in the corner always indicates the bottleneck is the CPU (I forget how many dots indicate what, but it was never GPU limited).
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It can even bottle neck harder than with worst card, funny but true.
I have a 2080 super and my frame rate is locked at 300 on 1080p. You might have something bottlenecking you!
Edit: even my 4790k & gtx970 could maintain 250fps pretty solidly. Definitely an issue…
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I’m feeling left out with my 2nd Gen i7 and a GTX 760
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Cpu and memory are far more important when it comes to really high frames. You could probably get locked 240 on a 1060 if your cpu can handle it.
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My CPU is a Ryzen 7 3800x, my Ram is 16gb 3200 trident z, I have a Samsung evo 860 side, and obviously I already stated I have a 1080 ti. Idk at max I absolutely do not maintain even close to a stable 240fps, so idk how anybody would with the same GPU. My setup is pretty capable. I think overwatch is easy enough to run smoothly when it is idling, but during teamfights I fluctuate a lot. I find it hard to believe as many people are saying they maintain a locked 240 fps during hectic teamfights. My rig is not a potato, everything in it is pretty high end for the most part.
A 2080s is a good deal stronger than a 1080ti. I maintain 240fps when not much is going on, but quickly dip to the 100’s during teamfights. I have interchanged every part of my rig except my GPU and it has done nothing. Maybe my 1080ti is defective.
Tbh I don’t think a 2080s is much better than the 1080ti. But dipping to the 100s doesn’t sound good.
The 2080 regular was already a decent step up, the super is at least 10-20% more powerful overall than the 1080ti. Usually the lowest will be about 170fps.
Most people that never dip below 240fps do have some settings turned down. You might want to try a fresh install of Windows when your 3080 arrives just to be sure everything is clean. You could run PC mark and 3Dmark to make sure your machine is performing close to where similar spec PCs are at.
I’m certainly not calling your computer a potato, but it does sound like the bottleneck or issue is elsewhere. Sometimes other drivers or software can interfere with performance sensitive applications.
As I mentioned in my edit, even on my machine with a much much older CPU/RAM than yours, the FPS counter always indicates that my bottleneck is not the GPU.
The counter shows a certain number of dots afterwards depending on what the bottleneck is. If I can recall off the top of my head:
1 dot = simulation thread (CPU+RAM bottleneck)
2 dots = GPU rendering (GPU bottleneck)
3 dots = render thread (CPU bottleneck)
I have never ever had 2 dots (or whichever the correct one was) indicating a GPU bottleneck on my 1080Ti, and I play the game at 1440p (100% scaling).
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If my 1070ti can hit 155 maxed consistent no issue on ‘competitive’ settings on 1440p I imagine his 1080ti should be able to push 200.
With that being said, from what I understand the 3080 is intended to be phenomenal at 1440p 144hz AAA games, so I can’t see why it wouldn’t be able to handle 1080p 240hz on low - medium. Can’t say for max because that’s when way more consumption of resources happens but… should get close. Consistent cap, dunno.