The RTX 3080’s TGP is 320W, which is 30W less than the RTX 3080 Ti. Included in the box is an adapter to attach 8-pin connectors, but this time there’s only three pigtails. On top is the much-talked-about 12VHPWR power connector. While not as long as a 3090 Ti, it’s still a pretty beefy card, just like the RTX 4090. It’s 304mm long, 137mm wide, and needs 3 slots, measuring at 61mm. Size-wise, the GeForce RTX 4080 is a three slot card and is pretty much the same size as the RTX 4090. We have 16GB of GDDR6X memory on the RTX 4080, and when you compare it to the RTX 3090 TI, the RTX 4080 has 4 GB more, which is good to see. This go around, the XX80 class of card will not be coming in at lower than expected memory as one of the complaints on the initial RTX 3080 was that it only had 10GB of GDDR6X memory. Even though the RTX 4080 has a smaller memory bus and less total memory bandwidth than the 3080 Ti, the texture rate is better on the RTX 4080. The boost clock and memory clock are a nice improvement over the RTX 3080 Ti and part of the reason the RTX 4080 outperforms the RTX 3080 Ti by a good margin. But where the RTX 4080 has more of is speed. The GeForce RTX 4080 has less tensor cores and less RT cores than the RTX 3080 Ti, but they are improved over the ones on the 3080 TI card. Let’s take a look at how the RTX 4080 stacks up to the RTX 4090 and the RTX 3080 Ti. I’m looking forward to seeing how NVIDIA improves on DLSS 3’s Frame Generation and perhaps in a few releases, we’ll be talking about how this is another in a line of features that you should really use with a NVIDIA card, provided you aren’t playing fast twitch games.

DLSS certainly didn’t have the best implementation when it was first released, but it has come along to the point where you should almost enable it by default in at least quality mode.

And remember, DLSS 3 with Frame Generation is just getting started. Like most things, this technology works better in certain games. But the faster you go the less of an issue this becomes, because an inaccurate generated frame will appear in less time on the screen. It’s a lot more noticeable when you’re at slower frame rates where there’s more time between real frames and generated frames. Besides increasing frame rate at a small penalty with lag, there can be some image artifacting that can happen. We’ve had a month or so now to digest Frame Generation and see what benefits and detriments it has with the new feature. Frame Generation has been in the works at NVIDIA for a long time and it’s something that NVIDIA is really pushing in terms of offering better performance, especially with CPU-bound games like Microsoft Flight Simulator and Marvel’s Spider-Man. Some of the big additions to this generation are DLSS 3.0 with Frame Generation, shader execution reordering, and the improvements to the Tensor and RT cores. I’ll throw in scores for the RTX 4090 and the RTX 3090 Ti as well.īy now you probably know all about the Ada Lovelace cards in terms of features and architecture, but if you need a primer you can read my review of the GeForce RTX 4090. NVIDIA was very generous and sent over a NVIDA GeForce RTX 4080 to test and we’re going to put it through its paces against a GeForce RTX 3080 Ti as NVIDIA is touting its performance over that card rather than the regular GeForce RTX 3080. Thankfully, NVIDIA decided against releasing the 12GB version and just went with the RTX 4080 that includes 16GB of memory so as to not confuse people. On one hand, you had a card that everyone was expecting as the high end card just below the RTX 4090, but then you had NVIDIA also announcing a 12GB RTX 4080 that had different specs - besides just the memory - than the “normal” RTX 4080. The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 was announced alongside the recently released GeForce RTX 4090, and had a sort of mixed reaction to its unveiling.

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