SeekerNvidia GeForce RTX 4080
The RTX 4080 has all the technological advancements of the Ada Lovelace architecture, with a price that's difficult to justify. It's too close to the 4090 to entice extreme performance enthusiasts, and soon it will have to contend with AMD's RX 7900 series. But lots of people prefer Nvidia and want DLSS and are willing to pay the piper his dues.
-- As reviewed by Tom's Hardware
Product details
- Powered by the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 (16GB) graphics processing unit (GPU) with a 2.51 GHz boost clock speed
- PCI Express 4.0 and earlier PCI Express 3.0. Offers compatibility with a range of systems
- 9,728 NVIDIA CUDA Cores, 2.51 GHz Boost Clock, Dedicated Ray Tracing Cores
- Microsoft DirectX 12 Ultimate, Vulkan RT APIs
PROS
+ Second-fastest GPU (for now)
+ Much improved efficiency
+ Excellent ray tracing performance
+ Packs all the Ada Lovelace enhancements
CONS
- High price without the halo performance of the 4090
- Needs DLSS 3 to truly shine in gaming performance
- AMD's RDNA 3 could provide strong competition
- Lingering concerns surrounding the 16-pin connector
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Expert reviews and ratings
By Tom's Hardware on November 15, 2022
The RTX 4080 has all the technological advancements of the Ada Lovelace architecture, with a price that's difficult to justify. It's too close to the 4090 to entice extreme performance enthusiasts, and soon it will have to contend with AMD's RX 7900 series. But lots of people prefer Nvidia and want DLSS and are willing to pay the piper his dues.
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By TechRadar on November 16, 2022
The Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080 is unquestionably powerful, and it's a major improvement over its predecessor with performance blowing the RTX 3090 Ti out of the water, but at nearly double the price of the RTX 3080, you really should just buy the RTX 4090 at this point.
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