[FPS Benchmarks] Shadow Of The Tomb Raider on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 (130W) and RTX 3070 (130W) – the bigger GPU is just faster

Shadow Of The Tomb Raider is the newest title of the series. Just like the previous Tomb Raider games, you can enjoy an interesting single-player campaign, numerous DLCs, and yes, the graphical part of the game definitely looks good.

And while we are still talking about the graphics, this is a heavy game, especially if you want to max it out. In this scenario, the title requires not just a powerful graphics solution but a fast CPU as well. This leads us to the point where we are about to see how fast are the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 (130W) and RTX 3070 (130W) when it comes to Shadow Of The Tomb Raider.

Don’t forget to take a look at our Top 100 Best Laptops for Shadow of the Tomb Raider list.

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GeForce RTX 3080 and RTX 3070 variants

  GeForce RTX 3080 [130W] GeForce RTX 3070 [130W]
Architecture Ampere Ampere
GPU chip GA104 GA104
Shader units 6144 (+20%) 5120
ROPs 96 96
Base Clock (MHz) up to 1185 (+7%) 1110
Boost clock (MHz) up to 1605 1620 (+1%)
Memory clock (MHz) 1750 1750
Memory size (MB) 8192 8192
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR6
Memory bus width (bit) 256 256
TGP (Total Graphics Power) 130W 130W
DirectX version 12.1 12.1
Technology 8nm 8nm
RTX capabilities Yes  Yes
Release date 01.2021 01.2021
Detailed specs Link Link

 

Synthetic benchmarks

Results are from the 3DMark: Fire Strike (Graphics) benchmark (higher the score, the better)

Results are from the Unigine Superposition benchmark (higher the score, the better)


Gaming tests and gameplay videos (ext. monitor)

 

Shadow of the Tomb Raider (2018) Full HD, Lowest (Check settings) Full HD, Medium (Check settings) Full HD, High (Check settings) Full HD, Highest (Check settings)
GeForce RTX 3080 [130W] 134 fps (+19%) 120 fps (+19%) 119 fps (+18%) 105 fps (+18%)
GeForce RTX 3070 [130W, Intel CPU] 113 fps 101 fps 101 fps 89 fps




Verdict

At the end of the day, it seems that the GeForce RTX 3080 [130W] is 19% faster on average when compared to its smaller sibling. That is a decently big performance gap between them but on the other hand, the performance of the GeForce RTX 3070 [130W] is probably enough for most people. Even on the Highest preset, it achieved 89 FPS which is (probably) fine for smooth gameplay. And yes, the RTX 3070 [130W] is cheaper as well.

The RTX 3080 [130W] could offer maximum possible performance if your wallet is big enough.

Don’t forget to take a look at our Top 100 Best Laptops for Shadow of the Tomb Raider list.

All laptops equipped with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 [130W]

All laptops equipped with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 [130W]

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