Packaging

The Card

The Galax RTX 4080 Super SG comes with a black color theme, the backplate has some white highlights. There's a cutout for air to flow through, the main cooler shroud is made from plastic while the backplate is made of metal.


Dimensions of the card are 34.0 x 14.0 cm, and it weighs 1867 g.


Installation requires three slots in your system. We measured the card's width to be 67 mm.


Display connectivity includes three standard DisplayPort 1.4a ports and one 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.

Teardown

The thermal solution on the Galax SG has six 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.