The RTX 3080, once a top-tier GPU, struggles with new demands from games like Forza Horizon 6, particularly with Nvidia's DLSS 4.5. Despite its past performance in AAA titles, the card's 10GB VRAM limits its ability to handle advanced graphics settings, leading to lower framerates and a need for compromises in visual quality.

• 01The RTX 3080, launched over five years ago, is now hindered by its 10GB VRAM capacity, affecting its performance in newer games.
• 02DLSS 4.5 introduced improvements but increased VRAM demands, causing significant framerate drops on the RTX 3080.
• 03In Forza Horizon 6, the RTX 3080 struggled to maintain playable framerates with ray tracing enabled, often dropping below 60 FPS.
• 04Switching to DLSS 4 Preset K allowed for around 90 FPS, but at the cost of visual fidelity compared to ray tracing.
• 05The ongoing GPU market issues make upgrading from the RTX 3080 difficult, leaving many gamers with older cards facing similar performance challenges.

Gamers with older GPUs, like the RTX 3080, will face challenges in playing new titles with high graphical fidelity due to increasing VRAM demands.