What better way to showcase the supernatural power of an RTX 3080 than with the supernatural events of Control. And be sure to let us know in the comments below which game you plan on playing first when you install your new card. So, if you’re like me and plan to put your $699 purchase through its paces as soon as it’s installed, here are 10 games that deserve a playthrough on your brand new RTX 3080. With others, I will be taking my first run through in all their visual glory.

Some of the games have already spent time on my hard drive but had to be played at a lower resolution or quality settings. I don’t even have the card yet, but I do have a list of games that I plan on playing once I do. Both next-gen consoles coming out with ray tracing packed inside gives developers that much more reason to include ray tracing in their games (face it PC gamers, we aren’t the driving force in the gaming market) so the number of ray tracing enabled games coming out should finally start to warrant paying for the tech.

An upgrade will also give me the ray tracing treatment that I have been drooling over for the last year or so. It’s a first-world problem for sure, but an upgrade to a 3080 will get me back over that 60fps target for quite a while. More and more games are bringing my current card (AMD Vega 64) to its knees with sub 60 frames per second performance at WQHD resolution (3440×1440), and I wouldn’t even think about moving to a 4k monitor without an upgrade. The 3080’s price tag of $699 may sound like a lot to spend on a graphics card, but considering it outpaces yesterday’s king of the hill, the RTX 2080Ti, for $500 less, you can expect the shelves to be empty rather quickly. For any non-techies out there that simply means it’s by far the most powerful video card on the market. The new flagship graphics card from Nvidia is toting some serious firepower, with 8704 CUDA cores, 10GB of GDDR6X memory, and a 1.7GHz boost clock. As of today, September 17, 2020, there’s a new sheriff in town and its name is the Nvidia RTX 3080.

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