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Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 review: performance worthy of the name?

Game benchmarks: Hitman: World of Assassination, A Plague Tale: Requiem.

We close out on non-RT benchmarks with two final titles that we've seen before in their RT guises - Hitman: World of Asssassination and A Plague Tale: Requiem. Both games play well enough at lower frame-rates, but they're still demanding enough on the underlying hardware that there are meaningful differences as we jump from one generation to another.

Again, it's a combination of custom benchmarks and integrated ones here, with Hitman offering an excellent benchmark suite in its launcher with the choice of the Dubai (GPU) or Dartmoor (CPU) benchmarks. Meanwhile, we used an in-game cutscene from A Plague Tale: Requiem, with some custom work required to get to the precise moment the cutscene triggers with a minimum of faff.

Hitman: World of Assassination

Hitman: World of Assassination, Max Settings, RT Off

Frame Rate (FPS)250200150100
Frame Time (ms)2.04.06.08.010.012.014.016.018.020.0
Overall frame-rate (FPS)
Resolution:
050100150200250300350400
RTX 5090 2160p
RTX 5080 2160p
RTX 4090 2160p
RTX 4080 Super 2160p
RTX 4080 2160p
RTX 3090 Ti 2160p
RTX 3090 2160p
RTX 3080 Ti 2160p
RTX 3080 2160p
RTX 2080 Ti 2160p
RTX 2080 2160p
RX 7900 XTX 2160p
RX 7900 XT 2160p
RX 6900 XT 2160p
RX 6800 XT 2160p
RX 6800 2160p
RX 6700 2160p
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A Plague Tale: Requiem

A Plague Tale: Requiem, Max Settings, RT Shadows Off

Frame Rate (FPS)806040200
Frame Time (ms)0.020.040.060.080.0100.0120.0140.0160.0180.0
Overall frame-rate (FPS)
Resolution:
020406080100120140160
RTX 5090 2160p
RTX 5080 2160p
RTX 4090 2160p
RTX 4080 Super 2160p
RTX 4080 2160p
RTX 3090 Ti 2160p
RTX 3090 2160p
RTX 3080 Ti 2160p
RTX 3080 2160p
RTX 2080 Ti 2160p
RTX 2080 2160p
RX 7900 XTX 2160p
RX 7900 XT 2160p
RX 6900 XT 2160p
RX 6800 XT 2160p
RX 6800 2160p
RX 6700 2160p
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Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 Analysis