NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Founders Edition

W1zzard · Nov 15, 2022

GeForce RTX 4080 launches today and offers fantastic gaming performance at 4K, with highest details. In our RTX 4080 Founders Edition review, we confirm that NVIDIA's new $1200 card beats the last-generation flagship RTX 3090 Ti conclusively, both in performance and value.

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Xebec · Nov 15, 2022

4090 is $2400?

LFaWolf · Nov 15, 2022

I am impressed with how well it scales with the resolution and energy efficiency. Good if you have the money, but could probably wait a bit for the AMD reviews to make a purchasing decision.

Hyderz · Nov 15, 2022

Nice review! Impressive Performance but ill pass on this card..

Niceumemu · Nov 15, 2022

Anyone buying anything from Nvidia right now has more money than sense

dj-electric · Nov 15, 2022

Something to quickly note - notice how all 4080 models are based on 4090 designs.
This is done quite purposefully out of NVIDIA's will to keep the cards large and manacing. Notice how over-designed the coolers are for the power output, and how these could have ended up being significantly smaller and more case-friendly.

the54thvoid · Nov 15, 2022

Ada is still taking the same hit as Ampere when running RT, at least at 1440p (the resolution I'm interested in). With RT on, both Ampere and Ada take approx a 44/43% hit in control, and a 49/47% hit in Cyberpunk. That kind of suggests the raw RT performance of Ada is not improved over Ampere - the actual grunt of the card is better.

Clearly an incredibly good card but the raw RT numbers means it still tanks by the same amount as Ampere.

W1zzard · Nov 15, 2022

Xebec said:
4090 is $2400?

Yes, it is now .. I checked Newegg yesterday ..and yes I was like "WTF" too

Vipeax · Nov 15, 2022

Is Newegg the FE vendor in the USA? Pricing hasn't changed in the EU. $2400 would have been 2800 euro with VAT, instead of 1969. Meh.

LFaWolf · Nov 15, 2022

For those that are math challenged, compared to 3080 10GB, it is (100-67)/67 = 49% faster in 4K, and at a cost of ($1200-$700)/$700=71% increase in price. You decide if it is worth it for you.

ThrashZone · Nov 15, 2022

Xebec said:
4090 is $2400?

Hi,
That's messed up :kookoo:

aciDev · Nov 15, 2022

Italy, now, including 22% VAT.

ShiningSapphire · Nov 15, 2022

5800X in test setup...again huge bottleneck and flattened results especially in 1080p/1440p.

JATownes · Nov 15, 2022

Not a bad card, but not a great value proposition either if you already have a RTX3xxx or RX6xxx series card.

Going to skip this generation for GPU and CPU I think. Just not worth the upgrade costs for performance uplift right now.

Pumper · Nov 15, 2022

Well, the performance is way closer to 4090 than the spec difference suggests, but the pricing is whack.
3080 - 47% of the 3090 price for 91% the performance in 4K
4080 - 75% of the 4090 price for 79% the performance in 4K

That's even without taking into account that the 4080 is worse value than the 3080, giving 50% more fps for 70% price increase.

What a turd.

Ayhamb99 · Nov 15, 2022

@W1zzard Great review as always!

The card's performance and efficiency gains over the 3080 would be impressive but that becomes irrelevant when the next generation 80 card also come with around a 70% increase in price... I am really hoping that AMD's 7900 XTX and 7900 XT and Intel's future GPU cards really bring it and kick Nvidia's butt because at this point this is ridiculous with the insane prices.

jt94 · Nov 15, 2022

I usually agree with TPU, but not in this case. The 4080 can't be so highly regarded when factoring in the price. That alone is the one of the biggest factors in most people's purchasing decisions, and this card represents a truly horrible value. Giving it such a glowing review, such as 5 stars, and glossing over the woeful value is a dangerous precedent of ignoring said problem.

Just my opinion.

W1zzard · Nov 15, 2022

ShiningSapphire said:
5800X in test setup...again huge bottleneck and flattened results especially in 1080p/1440p.

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TheinsanegamerN · Nov 15, 2022

ShiningSapphire said:
5800X in test setup...again huge bottleneck and flattened results especially in 1080p/1440p.

W1zzard has already stated hes working on anew benchmark build, but rebenching everything will take time.

W1zzard · Nov 15, 2022

aciDev said:
View attachment 270053Italy, now, including 22% VAT.

FE is in stock in Italy? Here it sold out in 20 minutes and was never replenished again

Vipeax · Nov 15, 2022

4090 FE is a better buy than a 4080 FE with the 4080 being 75% of the price.

Pumper said:
Well, the performance is way closer to 4090 than the spec difference suggests, but the pricing is whack.
3080 - 47% of the 3090 price for 91% the performance in 4K
4080 - 75% of the 4090 price for 79% the performance in 4K

What a turd.

The 4090 is CPU limited in those test results. They're the same numbers as the original review by the looks of it. The 4090 would exceed the 33% if it weren't for the CPU.

W1zzard said:
FE is in stock?

Usually it is for a few hours for BE/FR residents when stock drops (like today).

W1zzard · Nov 15, 2022

I'm happy to adjust 4090 pricing if someone sends me a USA in-stock link with a better price

edit: any 4090, not FE

ThrashZone · Nov 15, 2022

W1zzard said:
I'm happy to adjust 4090 FE pricing if someone sends me a USA in-stock link with a better price

Hi,
In stock ?
Bestbuy have exclusives on these too ?
Stand in line only :laugh:

W1zzard · Nov 15, 2022

ThrashZone said:
Hi,
In stock ?
Bestbuy have exclusives on these too ?
Stand in line only

sorry .. i meant any 4090.. fixed my original post

64K · Nov 15, 2022

Nice job Nvidia. The price is too high but other than that this card looks very good.

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