Hi all! We’ve received quite a lot of questions about the new NVIDIA 3080 and 3090 and the performance in Notch, and I thought I’d just let it be known that we’ve now collected enough data to have an official score for the 3090: 52552 Notchmarks.
We’ve also made a few changes to the Notchmarks page so it works better on mobile, and cleaned it up a bit. We are still interested in getting an official score for the 3080 as well, so if you have one of those cards, go ahead and go to “Benchmarking” in Notch Builder, run it, and submit the score, thanks!
Nothing on the new AMD card; we can only look at Notchmarks tests done in the field, and so far there has been zero on that card (understandably, since it’s not available yet).
Notch is GPU vendor agnostic with the exception of specific features that rely on vendor SDKs, such as the NVIDIA OptiX denoiser and the new NVIDIA AR Broadcast SDK.
As for AMD cards, I’m sure this new one will be their best one yet, though history tells us AMD has had driver and performance trouble with every generation. If you’re looking for great Notch performance today, get an NVIDIA card.
Actually using the 5700XT since launch, I can confirm some driver issues during the first 3-4 months. After that, I can’t say I’ve noticed it. Performance has otherwise been good. Notchmarks on my home-computer (which then is unconfirmed) gives a score of around 30 000+/-.
For upcoming cards, wait for reviews - and maybe a price drop/super cards! If AMD follows through and drivers are good at launch, this will probably lead to better pricing and products overall.
Yes, I was surprised at that as well, especially since the 2080 Super clocks in at about 28 000. I’m not sure how the score is evaluated though, and if other parts of the system makes for a better score. It’s not very good for pathtracing in realtime, and there isn’t a HW denoiser - but it should be interesting to see how the upcoming cards will handle Notch.
so - has anybody run the notch bench on a 3080 laptop?
I have seen laptops with mediocre game performance but with really great compute performance in i.e. vray (besting 2080ti)
researching a bit more it seems the mobile 3080 (version around 130w) is on par with a desktop 3060ti. Not sure how that stacks up in the Notch-marks but it surely must be below 2080ti?
Although I have seen bechmarks where a mobile 3080 outperformed the RTX Titan in vray…
Still waiting for my 3090 to arrive. Although it seems to be quite a wait…
For non-Notchmark tested GPUs, a good rule-of-thumb is to check stuff like UserBenchmark. And yes; I’d be definitely be surprised if the 3060 Ti outperforms the 2080 Ti.
Notchmarks stress test a range of fundamental Notch rendering techniques that push compute & bandwidth on a GPU - so it’s pretty generalised.
However, Notchmarks obviously don’t show the availability of certain vendor-specific features such as NVIDIA AI Background Removal, NVIDIA AI Body Tracker, NVIDIA Optix Denoiser.
I used a 6900xt for a couple of projects and although I was getting about 70.000 in the bench it just didn’t feel smoother or faster than the 3090 with 4k+ resolutions.The vram easily got saturated whereas the 3090 still has margin. it might be it.
Was looking to upgrade my PC old GTX 1070 GPU to also start experimenting with Notch, so to understand if we can use it for a June event for the first time (total beginner on Notch).
Looking at Notchmark there is nothing about AMD GPUs except that single RX 6900, with a lot of nosense names that doesen’t mean anything. Are they AMD GPUs? Why no correct name? Anything regarding the new RX 7000 series.
The red listings are GPUs and the grey (probably the ones you refer to as “doesn’t mean anything”) are professional media servers.
Notchmarks are compiled by collating and verifying user submissions, and there aren’t many AMD submissions, because most professional users are on NVIDIA.
Notch Builder comes with the ability to run a Notchmarks benchmarking test built in, so if you have access to a GPU you want to test, that’s a good way to see how it stacks up. That also enables you to submit your score to our servers.
