Packaging

The Card

The ASUS Strix cooler is massive. Thanks to a refreshed design language and more vibrant color theme compared to ASUS's GeForce 30 series, the card will definitely turn some heads. The color theme consists of a matte black base, with some red and blue highlights and two RGB diffusers, one at the tail end, another for the ROG Strix logo on top. The main cooler shroud and the backplate are both metal.


Dimensions of the card are 35.0 x 15.0 cm, and it weighs 2379 g.


Installation requires three slots in your system. We measured the card's width to be 70 mm.

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Display connectivity includes three standard DisplayPort 1.4a ports and two HDMI 2.1a (same as Ampere and same as non-Super Ada).

NVIDIA introduced the concept of dual NVDEC and NVENC Codecs with the Ada Lovelace architecture. This means there are two independent sets of hardware-accelerators; so you can encode and decode two streams of video in parallel or one stream at double the FPS rate. The new 8th Gen NVENC now accelerates AV1 encoding, besides HEVC. You also get an "optical flow accelerator" unit that is able to calculate intermediate frames for videos, to smooth playback. The same hardware unit is used for frame generation in DLSS 3.


All GeForce RTX 4080 and 4080 Super graphics cards use the 12+4 pin ATX 12VHPWR connector, an adapter cable is included in the box.


This BIOS switch lets you toggle from the default performance BIOS to the quiet BIOS which runs a more relaxed fan curve at reference clocks.


Near the back of the card you'll find two fan headers that run the connected fans at the same speed as the GPU fans, including fan stop. This makes for a great option to control the case fans according to graphics card temperature.

Teardown

The thermal solution on the ASUS STRIX has seven heatpipes. The main heatsink also provides cooling for the memory chips and VRM circuitry.


The backplate is made of metal and protects the card against damage during installation and handling.