Nvidia RTX 4080 Super Review

1. Introduction2. Meet the RTX 4080 Super Founders Edition3. Testing Methodology4. 3DMark Fire Strike & Time Spy5. 3DMark DirectX Raytracing6. Alan Wake II7. Assassin's Creed Mirage8. Cyberpunk 20779. Forza Horizon 510. The Last of Us Part 111. A Plague Tale: Requiem12. Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart13. Red Dead Redemption 214. Resident Evil 415. Returnal16. Starfield17. Total War: Pharaoh18. Performance Summary (12-Game Average)19. Clock Speed Investigation20. Cost Per Frame Analysis21. Ray Tracing: Alan Wake II22. Ray Tracing: Avatar Frontiers of Pandora23. Ray Tracing: Cyberpunk 207724. Ray Tracing: F1 2325. Ray Tracing: Hitman 326. Ray Tracing: Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart27. Ray Tracing: Returnal28. Ray Tracing: Shadow of the Tomb Raider29. Ray Tracing Performance Summary30. DLSS Testing31. Clock Speed32. GPU Temperatures33. Memory Temperatures34. Acoustics35. Noise-Normalised Temperatures36. Power Draw: 1080p37. Power Draw: 1440p38. Power Draw: 2160p (4K)39. Performance per Watt: 1080p40. Performance per Watt: 1440p41. Performance per Watt: 2160p (4K)42. Total System Power Draw43. Overclocking44. Closing Thoughts45. View All Pages

The RTX 4080 Super Founders Edition ships in a large black box, with barely distinguishable branding on the front. The front of the box opens up to reveal the card sitting in the middle of the cardboard surround.

Inside, we find a few support guides and pieces of documentation, along with a triple 8-pin to 16-pin 12VHPWR adapter.

The design of the 4080 Super Founders Edition (FE) is almost identical to that of the vanilla 4080 FE, but this time Nvidia has gone very stealthy with the overall look – instead of gunmetal grey and silver accents, the 4080 Super has been ‘blacked out' using a combination of matte and glossy metal, and I have to say it looks fantastic.

That really is the only change to the OG 4080 FE, we're told the internal heatsink is exactly the same, and the 4080 Super retains the same 120mm fans in a push-pull configuration. These are still ‘counter rotating', so the fan on the underside of the card spins anti-clockwise, while the fan on the top spins clockwise.

As for dimensions, there's no change here versus the original 4080, so the card measures in at 304mm long, 127mm tall and is a 60mm/triple-slot thickness. It weighed in on my scales at 2125 grams.

The front side of the card is home to the GeForce RTX logo which is illuminated by white LEDs once powered on. The backplate is very stealthy and understated, you almost can't read the black RTX 4080 Super text – in my opinion this is the best-looking Founders Edition Nvidia has ever made, along with the 4070 Super FE.

Of course, it is still powered by a single 12VHPWR/PCIe Gen5 power connector, though a triple 8-pin adapter is included in the box. Display outputs are unchanged, with 3x DisplayPort 1.4 and 1x HDMI 2.1 connectors.

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