This is NOT OK, NVIDIA! RTX 4080 Review & Benchmarks

this is the last GPU that Nvidia will be launching in 2022 the RTX 4080 and today I'm benchmarking and reviewing the founders Edition straight from Nvidia the costs twelve hundred dollars MSRP which is a 500 increase over its predecessor the RTX 3080 which launched two years ago in 2020 for 700 and I'll say it right up front while it is true that RTX 3080s regularly sold for 1200 or more during the Great GPU shortage of 2021 and 2022 that situation is now behind us and I do not think 500 is a reasonable increase from one generation to the next I want to say positive things about the technological advances that Nvidia has made with the RTX 4080 I want to praise the performance increases say I am pleasantly surprised with the power draw and temperatures and discuss the benefits of dlss 3.0 but it's all tarnished and overshadowed by the stupid stupid price and yes you can absolutely make justifications for a 1200 RTX 4080 if you own Nvidia stock I suppose but historically advances in PC Hardware performance were largely passed down to Consumers whereas now Nvidia really really seems to view gpus as a commodity that they need to price as high as the market will bear and again shareholders yes you got to get yours business is business but if my enthusiasm for this launch is dampened as well as the enthusiasm of what I think is a pretty big slice of the PC gaming Community who can't afford to pay upwards of a grand for a GPU well that's the reason why excellent today's video is brought to you by g-skill ddr5 memory I've been using g-skill RAM and PC builds and high performance test systems for over a decade now and they are constantly pushing out Sleek new designs and faster kits with tighter timings give your build a colorful highlight with the Trident Z5 RGB line or be assured of Maximum compatibility with the XMP enabled rip Jaws S5 series for Intel 12th and 13th gen CPUs or the Expo enabled flare X5 line optimized for amd's new am5 platform for more on G skills ddr5 memory kits click the sponsor Link in the video description okay so for what it's worth I'm going to attempt to set aside my disappointments about the price of this card and focus on performance until I come back to the summary at the end my review is separated into three parts and there are timestamps you can jump ahead if you wish first we have the performance of the hardware itself clock speeds temperatures and power draw secondly we have the raw frame rate results for old school game rasterization benchmarks and thirdly we have a light smattering of dlss 3.0 testing to see how frame generation works with the RTX 4080 and once again comparing the RTX 4080 to a stacked deck of what were previously the most powerful cards in the world from AMD and Nvidia from Team Green we have the RTX 4090 represented by the Nvidia Founders Edition the RTX 39dti represented by the manufacturer overclocked MSI Supreme X the RTX 3090 also represented by the Nvidia Founders Edition and the RTX 3080 TI once again in Nvidia Founders Edition trim and from team red we have their top GPU at least until December 13th the RX 6950xt represented by the gigabyte gaming OC 16g and lastly the RX 6900 XT which uses the AMD reference design if you would like to shamelessly Ogle the RTX 4080 Founders Edition card itself here are some closer shots note that it looks pretty much exactly like the RTX 4090 except for the text it says RTX 4080 it's the same size and everything it has a 320 watt tgp or total Graphics power rating but does still require a 750 watt power supply at minimum as well as three 8-pin PCI Express Graphics power connectors to feed the 12 VH power dongle that's included in the Box there's one HDMI 2.1 and 3 DisplayPort 1.4 a connectors for video outs unfortunately no DisplayPort 2.1 like the upcoming RX 7900 XT and XTX will have and yes it is still absolutely massive because it is the same size as the RTX 4090 requiring three slots in your case at minimum the GPU itself is the Ada Lovelace ad103 300 A1 chip built on tsmc's 4N lithography and supporting 9728 Cuda cores a big step down from the 16 384 cores and the 4090 the 4080 also has a 2505 megahertz boost clock and 16 gigabytes of gddr6x memory that can hit 22.4 gigabits per second despite having less bandwidth versus its Big Brother relevant stats for all the cards tested today are here if you want to pause to compare them and do note that I'm showing current pricing based on the average of the cheapest three to four models available on PC part picker and while these prices have come down significantly in recent months I've noted that just recently some of the Nvidia gpus have bounced and are back on the upswing moving on to my test setup all tests were run on this test system with an Asus RG x670e Crosshair hero motherboard and a ryzen 97950x 16 core CPU cooled back Corsair 360 millimeter AIO memory is a 32 gigabyte g-skill Trident Z5 Neo ddr5 6000cl30 kit the same one from my recent ryzen 7000 CPU reviews and for power we have a Corsair ax 1600i 1600 watt ATX power supply tests were run on Windows 11 version 21 H2 and here are stats for the rest of the system if you'd like to take a closer look let's move on to Performance though and here are the clock speeds I was seeing out of the cards while in use the RTX 4080 boosted well beyond its advertised clock speeds as well as the RTX 4090 hitting 2820 megahertz Peak and averaging around 2 800 megahertz under a typical gaming workload it's a notable generational leap in frequencies and until the RX 7900s launch it gives Nvidia the frequency crown for now but frequencies are only one component of GPU perform performance here are my Peak GPU core and memory temperatures and there's some very good news for Mini ITX system Builders the 4080s 320 watt total Graphics power and likely the use of a smaller ad103 die versus the RTX 4090 meant the recorded temperatures were the lowest of any card in my Roundup including the third-party triple fan coolers from the RTX 390 TI and rx6950xt for anyone who gave up on fitting nrtx 4090 into a small form factor build a 4080 should be much more reasonable let's round this part out with my power draw numbers and here's another good result for NVIDIA 460 Watts average system power draw is also the lowest in this Roundup apart from the RX 6900 XT again demonstrating the efficiency gains achieved through architectural improvements and moving from Samsung 8 nanometer lithography to tsmc's N4 node and now it is time for traditional rasterization benchmarks at 4K 1440 and 1080p let's dive in 3D Mark time spy extremist first which is a 4K test and a graphic score of over 14 000 and it would seem more impressive or Not dwarfed by the 19277 points that the RTX 4090 achieved it's still outperforming the best card from the 30 series though staying 23 percent ahead of the 39 DTI as well as maintaining a 37 lead over the 6950 XT but please note that this is a synthetic Benchmark so it's not included in My overall numbers 3dmark Port Royal is my other synthetic Benchmark from 3dmark so we can get a general idea of how these cards handle Ray tracing here's a trend that will continue today the 4080 is 30 slower than the 4090 and 22 percent faster than the 3090 TI it'll stay between these two cards for most of these tests but is closer to the 3090 TI than to the 4090 and yes the Radeon 6000 cards still suck at Ray tracing moving on to real world games we have a lot of DirectX 12 titles starting with Far Cry 6 we're at 4K the 4080 extended a healthy lead over the 3090 TI again getting 109.6 FPS on average which is about 18 ahead although it's still 27 slower than the 40 90. those one percent lows do look good here though at 1440 we begin to hit CPU limitations and the 4080 manages to just barely outpace the 6950 XT and 3090 TI it also remains about 4.9 percent slower than the RTX 4090 at 1080p we are pretty much entirely CPU bound as you can see with only a two to three percent difference between each card but the 4080 lands at the bottom of the pack down 5.5 percent versus the 4090 next we have Shadow of the Tomb Raider and yes the trend you may note is that at 4K we're looking more directly at the performance of each graphics card whereas at 1440 and 1080 the CPU limitations begin to even things out 160 FPS on average for the RTX 4080 is 17.6 percent ahead of the 39 DTI and 27 percent slower than the 4090. at 1440 the 4080 beats the 3090 TI again but it's only three percent ahead while being 8.4 percent slower than the RTX 4090 but one percent lows for both 40 series cards were down versus the other gpus at 1080p we are our CPU Bound Again with the 3090 TI and 6950 XT managing the best results for Team Green and team red and the 4080 Landing in last place cyberpunk 2077 is running with the ultra Graphics preset which is a challenge at 4K but the 4080s still managed 70.3 FPS on average and one percent lows that were better than all of the other cards that were tested at 1440 the 4080 hit 131 FPS putting it 19.5 percent ahead of the 39 DTI and 17 behind the 4090 and at 1080p we are CPU bound again but not quite so much with the 4090 maintaining its position at 185.7 FPS besting the 390 TI by 17 here's Horizon zero Dawn using the favor quality preset and at the risk of repeating myself the 4080 has another healthy 9 lead over the 3090 TI at 4K while it's also behind the 4090 once again by 25 percent the lead is increased at 1440 with the 4080s 218 FPS being 13 in front of the 3090 TI while remaining 7.2 percent behind the 40 90. at 1080 things have evened out a lot as we become CPU bound and the 4080 picks up a rare but modest win over the 4090 while barely edging out the 6950 XT by 1.5 percent continuing on to dirt 5 the anti-concrete racing game we're running the ultra high preset at 4K goddess 136.4 FPS out of the RTX 4080 another 13 Victory versus the 3090 TI that also puts it 29 slower than the 4090. at 1440 we see a bit of a boost in relative performance the 4080 is now 20 ahead of the 39 DTI and 24 percent slower than the 4090 and at 1080 the margins shrink a bit but not too much 264 FPS from the 4080 means a 19.9 percent win versus 3090 TI and a loss of 15.6 percent compared to the 4090 next up is Resident Evil Village another DirectX 12 game with scary vampires and stuff the 4080 pushed out 161 FPS at 4K for another 20 win over the 3090 TI while staying 27 behind the 40 90. Radeon gpus typically perform form well with this game but despite that they still could not touch the 4080 it's 22 and 28 ahead of the 6950 XT and 6900 XT here at 1440. and even here at 1080 the Radeon 6000s surpassed the 3090 TI but still land behind the 4080 which was 4.7 percent ahead of the 6950 XT and 6.9 ahead of the 6900 XT Doom Eternal is my only Vulcan title but it makes up for that with demon splattering action and maximum frame rates starting at 4K the 4080 pushed over 275 frames per second sure not quite the 365 FPS that the 4090 managed but still adequate for those upcoming 4k 240Hz displays depending on the video of connection you have I guess and a 17 win over the 3090 TI at 1440 we have a similar lineup but slightly simmer margins but now the RTX 4080 is hitting just shy of 500 frames per second so bring on the 1440p 480 Hertz refresh rate monitors I would say if the RTX 4080 had displayed for two point 0.1 it doesn't so 240 hertz at 1440p is the best you can do and 120 hertz at 4K for anyone wondering and then at 1080p we get up to 563 frames per second with the 4080 putting at 17.6 percent ahead of the 3090 TI and 9.5 behind the 4090. lastly we have a couple DirectX 11 titles here is God of War we're at 4K the 4080s lead is less comfortable than the 4090s at 101.6 FPS on average it's about 16 percent ahead of the 3090 TI and 21 slower than the 40 90. at 1440 the 4080 is between the 4090 and the 3090 TI yet again still 20 ahead of the 3090 TI and about 14 behind the 4090 at 1080p we have reasonable scaling and minimal CPU limitations placing the RTX 4080 16.4 percent in front of the 39 DTI and 15.5 percent slower than the 4090. lastly we have Microsoft flight simulator running in DirectX 11 mode and exhibiting some of the worst CPU bottlenecking in my tests although it is least noticeable at 4K 4080 manages a 21 win over the 3090 TI while staying about 10 percent behind the 40 90. at 1440 though we hit that CPU wall with the Nvidia cards and the 4080 and 4090 get passed up by the 30 series cards with the 3090 TI on top and then at 1080 the 6950 and 6900 XT pull up to take the win which is not a significant one at this point but team red will take what they can get also a low note for the 4080 to end on but it's a good segue into some dlss 3.0 testing what if there was a way to circumvent these CPU limitations in a game like flight simulator dlss is now upgraded to version 3 with the debut of nvidia's rtx40 series which provides more performance and higher frame rates with some degree of loss in visual Fidelity the RTX 4080 and 4090 feature 4th gen tensor cores for dlss and 3rd gen RT cores for retracing but perhaps the most compelling new feature is frame generation which uses AI to create new frames that are inserted in in between traditionally rendered ones I recommend the hardware unboxed dlss 3.0 Deep dive video for some pixel peeping comparisons and further explanations of the technology but for today I have some quick testing to see what kind of a boost we get using the new RTX 4080 starting with cyberpunk 2077 we have cranked settings up to the ray traced Ultra preset which is barely playable using traditional rasterization even with the 4080 averaging below 30 frames per second dlss 3.0 by itself boosts that to 76.3 FPS on average and this is in performance mode which is recommended at 4K image quality is still right in line with the native 4K definition and then by turning on frame generation we boost the frame rate to 112.7 about a 290 percent increase in frames versus native and a 48 boost compared to frame generation being off with little to no noticeable impact on the visuals that's a great result and something Nvidia should be proud of here's another test with flight simulator a bit of a poster child for this technology given the CPU limitations I discussed during during the benchmarks dlss 3.0 alone doesn't help flight simulator very much only providing about 2.5 more frames per second but frame generation jumps that number from 72.7 up to 142.2 nearly doubling the frame rate at close to a 100 percent Improvement of course as mentioned in the hardware unboxed video the AI generated frames aren't always perfect but I think flight Sim fans will gladly make the trade given just how drastic this frame rate jump is okay time for my overall results skipping to this part of the video is a great idea even though it brings with it a terrible curse I'm just kidding of course here are my overall numbers evenly weighted by game using the RTX 3090 Founders Edition as the 100 Baseline to sum up the RTX 4080 provides a significant performance boost over the best that last gen could muster 33 better than the 3090 at 4K 25.3 percent faster at 1440 and 14.6 percent ahead at 1080. it's in front of the 3090 TI 2 by roughly the same amounts minus 10 or so all while drawing less power and maintaining lower temps versus the best cards from the 30 series here's that same data alongside current pricing for these cards and while discounts have made these Elite tier gpus more affordable they're still all in the one thousand dollar range for nvidia's offerings that's a lot to spend on just a GPU and it brings me back to my frustrations from the intro just as they did with the RTX 20 series when it debuted Nvidia is stacking the 40 series cards on top of their existing offerings at higher prices rather than replacing cards lowered down in the lineup and so to conclude that's the thing distracting me from thoroughly praising the RTX 4080 pricing both practically speaking for gamers who just can't afford it and from the standpoint of principle PC parts have a long history of getting better and faster over time and those technological advances have historically been largely shared with consumers yes prices go up but they go up some while performance goes up a lot and here's a good exam example incidentally it was the first one that I looked for the GTX 980 and 80 class card launched for 550 bucks back in September of 2014 and just shy of two years later its successor the GeForce GTX 1080 launched in May 2016. for 600 bucks more expensive yes by nine percent sounds reasonable and I would say it was especially when you consider that the performance increased by about 51 percent with the 1080 according to tech power up there might be a little bit of variance there but we're talking ballpark but that is significantly more than the nine percent increase in costs this made PC Builders and consumers excited because they were getting more for their money now Nvidia just wants to say look it's 20 to 30 percent faster so we increased the price 20 percent and that's being generous by using the 3090 with current pricing when Jensen claims that Moore's Law is dead it's a very calculated thing to say because the steady and advance of Moore's Law is what allowed for significantly more performance with each generation of PC technology and he'd rather charge us for those improvements based on the performance results rather than the actual increases in their manufacturing costs but there it is hopefully now you guys have a much better idea of how the RTX 4080 Stacks up and I will say I am impressed with the technology and the performance and the temperatures and even the power draw just very disappointed in the price but that's all for this review closing reminder to check out my store at paulsharbor.net for merchandise shirts pint glasses and other thumb screw related items including these water bottles which are now in stock as requested many times by many different people since I've been showing them on my channel and of course you can hit the like button if you enjoyed this video And subscribe to my channel if you really enjoyed it thanks as always for watching and we'll see you guys in the next video foreign [Music]

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Length: 18min 28sec (1108 seconds)

Published: Tue Nov 15 2022