Nvidia RTX 4080 Super Founders Edition Review

The third of Nvidia’s Super GPUs to launch this month, the RTX 4080 Super is effectively a replacement for the existing RTX 4080 the company launched in 2022. The RTX 4080 Super brings 4K gaming to the market, with a drop in price to boot.

While the original RTX 4080 was released at an eye-watering $1199 back in November 2022, the RTX 4080 Super launches today with a $200 drop in its price, coming in at $999. This is still a lot of money for a GPU, though if you’re in the high-end market, this puts it more evenly with the RTX 4080 Super’s direct competitor, the AMD RX 7900 XTX, which launched in 2022 for $999.

Specifications

• Graphics Processing Clusters: 7
• Texture Processing Clusters: 40
• Streaming Multiprocessors: 80
• CUDA Cores: 10240
• Shader FLOPS: 52
• Tensor Cores: 320 (4th Generation)
• AI TOPS: 836
• RT Cores: 80 (3rd Generation)
• RT FLOPS: 121
• Texture Units: 320
• ROP Units: 112
• Base Clock: 2295 MHz
• Boost Clock: 2550 MHz
• Memory Clock: 11500 MHz
• Memory Data Rate: 23 Gbps
• L1 Data Cache/Shared Memory: 10240 K
• L2 Cache Size: 65536 K
• Total Video Memory: 16 GB GDDR6X
• Memory Interface: 256-bit
• Total Memory Bandwidth: 816 GigaTexels/second
• Fabrication Process: 4NM Nvidia Custom Process
• Transistor Count: 45.9 Billion
• Required PSU: 750 Watts
• Total Graphics Power: 320 W
• Price: $999 MSRP

RTX 4080 Super First Thoughts

Out of the three RTX 40-series Super cards to release this month, the RTX 4080 Super might have the smallest performance bump over its predecessor, with Nvidia claiming only up to 3% difference. There isn’t a ton of room for improvement here at this price range unless Nvidia wants to eat into the performance of its flagship, the mighty RTX 4090. 

Yet despite this, the RTX 4080 Super is compelling because of that price drop. Even if it pans out at a 3% improvement, the RTX 4080 Super also comes in for less money, making it more price competitive with the rest of the GPUs in the performance range.

So what does that $999 get you? The RTX 4080 Super takes the same