Product Info

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080

16 November, 2022

Type

Graphics Card

Price

$1199.99 US

Keeping their tradition alive of launching a new graphics architecture every two years, this year, NVIDIA introduces its Ada Lovelace GPU. The Ada GPU is built upon the foundation set by Turing. NVIDIA terms the Ada Lovelace GPUs as a quantum leap over Ampere, and the GeForce RTX 4080 Founders Edition based on NVIDIA Ampere GPU excels at everything versus the previous gen.

The Ada GPU architecture has a lot to be talked about in this review, but so does the new RTX lineup. The Ada lineup offers faster shader performance, faster ray tracing performance, and faster AI performance. Built on a brand new process node and featuring an architecture designed from the ground up, Ada is a killer product with lots of numbers to talk about.

The fundamental of Ada was to take everything NVIDIA learned with its Turing & Ampere architectures and not only refine it but to use its DNA to form a product in a completely new performance category. Tall claims were made by NVIDIA when they introduced its Ada lineup last month with up to 4x performance claims & we will be finding out whether NVIDIA hit all the ticks with its Ada architecture as this review will be your guiding path to see what makes Ada and how it performs against its predecessors.

Today, we will be taking a look at the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Founders Edition graphics card. The card was provided by NVIDIA for the sole purpose of this review & we will be taking a look at their technology, design, and performance metrics in detail.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 Series Gaming Graphics Cards - The Biggest GPU Performance Leap in Recent History

Turing wasn't just any graphics core, it was the graphics core that was to become the foundation of future GPUs. The future is realized now with next-generation consoles going deep in talks about ray tracing and AI-assisted super-sampling techniques. NVIDIA had a head start with Turing & Ampere and its Ada generation will only do things infinitely times better.

The Ada GPU does many traditional things which we would expect from a GPU, but at the same time, also breaks the barrier when it comes to untraditional GPU operations. Just to sum up some features:

New Streaming Multiprocessor (SM)New Turing Tensor CoresNew Real-Time Ray Tracing AccelerationNew Shading EnhancementsNew Deep Learning Features For Graphics & InferenceNew GDDR6X High-Performance Memory SubsystemNew HDMI 2.1 Display Engine & Next-Gen NVENC/NVDEC

The technologies mentioned above are some of the main building blocks of the Ada GPU, but there's more within the graphics core itself which we will talk about in detail so let's get started.

Contents

1. Intro2. NVIDIA Ada GPU - Ada Streaming Multiprocessor, Ada GPC &; Ada GPUs Deep Dive3. NVIDIA Ada GPU - 3rd Gen RT and 4th Gen Tensor Cores Deep Dive4. NVIDIA Ada GPU - GDDR6X Memory Subsystem Deep Dive5. NVIDIA Ada GPU - Next-Gen Display Engine, AV1, HDMI 2.1, RTX IO More6. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 Series - GeForce RTX 40807. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 - Visual Inspection & Beauty Gallery8. The Wccftech Test Bench9. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Syntethic Benchmarks10. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Gaming Benchmarks (VULKAN)11. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Gaming Benchmarks (DirectX 12 + RTX/DLSS2)12. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Gaming Benchmarks (DLSS3 vs DLSS2 vs Native 4K)13. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Gaming Benchmarks Thermals14. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Gaming Benchmarks Power Consumption15. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Productivity and Power Users16. Conclusion

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