Best Settings for RTX 5080 in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

Dial in these settings while playing Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 with your RTX 5080 at 4k or 1440p resolution.

RTX 5080 represents Blackwell’s high-end GPU for gamers. At approximately $2000 and offering 16GB of VRAM, the 5080 reflects the dire state of gaming GPUs on the market. The 5080 stock settings provide only about a 5% improvement over the RTX 4080 Super but can be heavily tuned to approach the performance of an RTX 4090. Gamers buying a $ 2,000 product will likely run it at stock settings, but there is room for improvement.

As we all know, Expedition 33 is a UE 5 title, built with Lumen and Nanite at its core, incorporating features such as lighting and geometry. Gamers looking forward to playing this game at native 1440p or even upscaled 4K can refer to the settings below.

Note: Pair the high-end 5080 GPU with at least a Core i7-14700K or a Ryzen 7 7800X3D CPU to avoid bottlenecks. The game, by default, doesn’t support Framegen; for that, you need to use Lossless Scaling.

Best Settings for RTX 5080 in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (1440p and 4K Optimized)

Expedition 33 Settings page (Image via Sandfall Interactive)

A few keynotes to consider:

Run at native 1440p with DLAA for the cleanest image quality.
Use the Transformer DLSS model to fix ghosting, smearing, and stability issues.
Avoid native TAA; the image will look soft and blurry. Instead, opt for DLAA, which partially fixes temporal issues within UE 5.
Adjust the sharpness moderately; at higher resolutions, excessive sharpening can make the image appear artificial.
Frame Generation boosts FPS further, but isn’t mandatory at 1440p.
Expect around 120–140 FPS at 1440p with Ultra settings and DLAA enabled, and around 130 FPS with Quality DLSS at 4K, assuming you have turned on Lossless scaling frame generation on top of it.
Monitor 1% and 0.1% lows to detect traversal stutter caused by the UE5 engine.
Use a strong CPU; anything weaker than the Ryzen 7 7800X3D or Core i7-14700K will bottleneck performance badly.

Best Settings Explored

Setting	RTX 5080 at 1440p	RTX 5080 at 4K
Display Mode	Fullscreen	Fullscreen
Resolution	2560×1440	3840×2160
VSync	Enable (Optional)	Enable (Optional)
Max FPS	Unlimited	Unlimited
Scaling Type	DLAA	DLSS
Scaling Mode	Native AA	Quality
Resolution Scale	100%	66.7%
Anti-Aliasing	Epic	Epic
Shadows	Epic	Epic
Global Illumination	High	High
Reflection	Epic	Epic
Post-Processing	High	High
Texture	High	High
Visual Effects	High	High
Foliage	High	High
Shading	High	High
Motion Blur	(Optional)	(Optional)
Film Grain	(Optional)	(Optional)
Chromatic Aberration	(Preference)	(Preference)
Vignette	(Preference)	(Preference)

Nvidia has left an enormous headroom within the RTX 50 series; the VRAM can be overclocked substantially, and then there’s the core, which can also be pushed higher with an undervolt at 825mv and a frequency set at 2.56 GHz, the card can offer higher performance figures than stock, and over that consume less power. So tinker around; if you can squeeze out more performance from your 5080, you can max everything out in the Expedition.

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