Packaging

The Card

Zotac is taking an all-smooth approach with their GeForce RTX 4080 Super Airo. The curves on their card are almost female-elegant. On the back you get a high-quality metal backplate, the front cooler shroud is made from plastic.


Dimensions of the card are 36.0 x 15.0 cm, and it weighs 1917 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 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.

Please note the BIOS switch here. Unlike other cards, which use a sliding switch, Zotac uses a push button. Making the switch requires the card to be powered up, but not booting (the BIOS is managed by the same MCU that handles RGB, not by the GPU). The second BIOS is a "quiet" BIOS, which runs a more relaxed fan curve. On startup, the BIOS choice is indicated by flashing of the RGB strip: blue = default BIOS, red = quiet BIOS.


Zotac has placed a warning sticker over the power connectors, to make it crystal clear what's recommended in terms of setup.

Teardown

The thermal solution on the Zotac AMP has nine 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.