Red Dead Redemption PC guide: Best settings for Nvidia RTX 3080 and RTX 3080 Ti
Powerful graphics cards such as the RTX 3080 and the 3080 Ti can do light work of Red Dead Redemption 1, even at the highest settings and resolutions. You can easily get sky-high framerates in the title with no visual compromises. However, the game doesn't look as visually impressive as other 2024 releases since it maintains its PS3-level graphics.
That said, it is still an enjoyable experience. If you liked the 2018 entry to the franchise, the classic definitely has more Wild West content that you'd love. In this article, we will list the best visual options for the 3080 and 3080 Ti to help a quick start in the latest Rockstar release.
Red Dead Redemption settings for Nvidia RTX 3080
The Nvidia RTX 3080 was launched as a 4K gaming powerhouse. To this date, it lives up to that promise pretty well. You can enjoy Red Dead Redemption comfortably at triple-digit framerates at UHD with this GPU.
The detailed graphics settings recommendation is as follows:
Video
- Output monitor: 1
- Screen type: Fullscreen
- Resolution: 3840 x 2160
- Refresh rate: Max. supported by monitor
- Framerate cap: Max. supported by monitor
- V-sync: Off
- Triple buffering: On
- Pause game on focus loss: On
- Constrain mouse pointer: Off
Graphics
- Quality preset level: Custom
- HDR: On, if supported by monitor
- Shadow quality: Ultra
- Shadow softness: CHSS
- Shadow blend: Smooth
- Anisotropic level: x16
- Anti-aliasing/Upscaling method: Off
- Resolution scaling: Off
- DRS target framerate: N/A
- DRS minimum render scale: Off
Advanced
- Motion blur: Disabled
- Motion blur strength: Off
Level of detail
- Geometry level of detail: 100%
- Terrain level of detail: 100%
- Tree level of detail: 100%
- Tree draw distance: 100%
- Grass level of detail: 100%
Red Dead Redemption settings for Nvidia RTX 3080 Ti
The RTX 3080 Ti is quite a bit more capable than its 10 GB sibling. That translates to even higher framerates in RDR 1 with a similar settings list applied. The GPU consistently maintains 4K 120 FPS in the classic.
The detailed settings are as follows:
Video
- Output monitor: 1
- Screen type: Fullscreen
- Resolution: 3840 x 2160
- Refresh rate: Max. supported by monitor
- Framerate cap: Max. supported by monitor
- V-sync: Off
- Triple buffering: On
- Pause game on focus loss: On
- Constrain mouse pointer: Off
Graphics
- Quality preset level: Custom
- HDR: On, if supported by monitor
- Shadow quality: Ultra
- Shadow softness: CHSS
- Shadow blend: Smooth
- Anisotropic level: x16
- Anti-aliasing/Upscaling method: Off
- Resolution scaling: Off
- DRS target framerate: N/A
- DRS minimum render scale: Off
Advanced
- Motion blur: Disabled
- Motion blur strength: Off
Level of detail
- Geometry level of detail: 100%
- Terrain level of detail: 100%
- Tree level of detail: 100%
- Tree draw distance: 100%
- Grass level of detail: 100%
Overall, the RTX 3080 and 3080 Ti are some of the most capable video cards in the market. With the above settings lists applied, these cards can deliver the best experience at 4K resolutions in Red Dead Redemption. You won't face a single performance-related issue with the Turing-based 80-class GPUs in your rig.