Nvidia RTX 4080 Founders Edition Review

1. Introduction2. Meet the RTX 4080 Founders Edition3. Testing Methodology4. 3DMark Fire Strike & Time Spy5. 3DMark DirectX Raytracing6. Assassin's Creed Valhalla7. Cyberpunk 20778. Days Gone9. Dying Light 210. Far Cry 611. Forza Horizon 512. God of War13. Horizon Zero Dawn14. Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered15. Red Dead Redemption 216. Resident Evil Village17. Total War: Warhammer III18. Performance Summary (12-Game Average)19. Cost Per Frame Analysis20. Ray Tracing: Cyberpunk 207721. Ray Tracing: Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered22. Ray Tracing: Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition23. Ray Tracing: Resident Evil: Village24. Clock Speed25. GPU Temperatures26. Acoustics27. Noise-Normalised Temperatures28. Power Draw: 1080p29. Power Draw: 1440p30. Power Draw: 2160p (4K)31. Performance per Watt: 1080p32. Performance per Watt: 1440p33. Performance per Watt: 2160p (4K)34. Total System Power Draw35. Overclocking36. Closing Thoughts37. View All Pages

For our manual overclocking tests, we used MSI Afterburner. Our best results are as below.

 

As for overclocking, the first thing to note is the power limit for the RTX 4080 can be raised, but not by nearly as much as the RTX 4090. The 4090 can be set at up to 600W, whereas the 4080 maxes out at 355W.

I don't see that as a big problem as the 4080 doesn't appear to be power limited in my testing, and we were still able to add 205MHz to the GPU and a whopping 1620MHz to the memory, bringing speeds over 25Gbps!

This brought the GPU's average operating clock speed up to 2934MHz, so it wouldn't push quite as far as the RTX 4090, but it's still a decent improvement.

Frame rates increased by 8-9% thanks to this overclock, which is not too shabby and is fairly similar to what we have found with the RTX 4090.

Power draw did also increase, as expected, but only by around 26W, which is an 8% increase, so that is in-line with our performance gains.

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