Packaging

The Card

The ASUS RTX 4080 Super TUF OC is instantly recognizable, thanks to its bulky look that's a feature of the TUF series. On the other side you'll find a metal backplate that has a cutout for air to flow through.


Dimensions of the card are 35.0 x 15.5 cm, and it weighs 1956 g.


Installation requires three slots in your system. We measured the card's width to be 73 mm.


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.


Right next the power input is a dual BIOS switch, which lets you switch to a secondary "quiet" BIOS, which runs at a more relaxed fan curve.

Teardown

ASUS lets you remove the main cooler shroud, so the fans can be cleaned and replaced easily, without disturbing the thermal paste on the main cooler.


The thermal solution on the ASUS TUF OC has eight 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.