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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 · Photo source

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080
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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 · Photo source

NVIDIA · GeForce

GeForce RTX 4080

Released November 2022

A 2022 Ada Lovelace graphics card with 16 GB of GDDR6X for 4K gaming and creative workloads.

Memory
16 GB
Shaders
9,728
Boost clock
2,510 MHz
Bandwidth
716.8 GB/s
Power
320 W

What reviewers say

Reviewers praise its strong 4K performance, efficiency and DLSS Frame Generation. Both criticised the high launch price; PC Gamer also found the Founders Edition cooler unnecessarily large. These reviews assess the original 16 GB card at launch.

From techradar.com and pcgamer.com

Specifications

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Performance

Chip maker
NVIDIA
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
Shader cores
9,728
Boost clock
2,510 MHz
Architecture
AD103; 76 Streaming Multiprocessors. Specifications describe NVIDIA's reference card; the photo shows PNY's original RTX 4080 VERTO Triple Fan, whose cooler and dimensions differ.
Manufacturing process
TSMC 4N; 45.9 billion transistors; 378.6 mm² die
Ray tracing
76 third-generation RT Cores; 113 RT TFLOPS
AI cores
304 fourth-generation Tensor Cores; 780 AI TOPS
Upscaling and frame generation
DLSS 3.5 with Super Resolution, DLAA, Ray Reconstruction and Frame Generation
Base clock
2.21 GHz on the current NVIDIA specification page; PNY's stock-clock VERTO lists 2,205 MHz base, while NVIDIA's Ada architecture whitepaper gives 2,505 MHz boost (current page rounds boost to 2.51 GHz)
Cache
65,536 KB L2

Memory

Video memory
16 GB GDDR6X
Memory bus
256-bit
Memory bandwidth
716.8 GB/s
Memory detail
22.4 Gbps GDDR6X

Connections and power

Board power
320 W
Interface
PCIe 4.0
Display outputs
3 × DisplayPort 1.4a, 1 × HDMI 2.1a; up to 4 displays; HDCP 2.3
Maximum resolution
4K at 240 Hz or 8K at 60 Hz with DSC and HDR
Power connector
3 × PCIe 8-pin cables through the included adapter, or 1 × 450 W or greater PCIe Gen 5 cable (Founders Edition)
Recommended power supply
750 W; NVIDIA recommends another 36 mm of clearance for the power cable
Slot width
3-slot (Founders Edition)
Size (reference card)
304 × 137 mm, 3-slot; NVIDIA's system-clearance guide specifies 61 mm thickness (Founders Edition)
Video encode and decode
2 × eighth-generation NVENC, fifth-generation NVDEC; AV1 encode and decode

Pros and cons

Pros

  • 16 GB of GDDR6X with 716.8 GB/s memory bandwidth
  • DLSS Frame Generation and hardware ray tracing
  • Two AV1-capable eighth-generation NVENC encoders

Cons

  • 320 W total graphics power and a recommended 750 W power supply
  • Founders Edition occupies three slots and is 304 mm long
  • DisplayPort 1.4a rather than DisplayPort 2.1

Closest rivals

Model
MemoryShadersBoost clockBandwidthPowerReleased
NVIDIAGeForce RTX 4080 SUPER
16 GB10,2402,550 MHz736 GB/s320 WJan 2024
NVIDIAGeForce RTX 3080 Ti
12 GB10,2401,670 MHz912 GB/s350 WJun 2021
AMDRadeon RX 7900 XT
20 GB5,3762,400 MHz800 GB/s315 WDec 2022

Sources

  1. nvidia.com/en-gb/geforce/graphics-cards/40-series/rtx-4080-family
  2. images.nvidia.com/aem-dam/Solutions/geforce/ada/nvidia-ada-gpu-architecture.pdf
  3. nvidia.com/en-gb/geforce/news/geforce-rtx-4080-out-now
  4. pny.com/pny-geforce-rtx-4080-16gb-verto-triple-fan-led

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