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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

A Plague Tale: Requiem

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

Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 Analysis