NVIDIA unveiled the RTX 40 Super series of GPUs at CES 2024, in which the RTX 4080 Super, which is positioned for a 4K high-frame gaming experience, has finally ushered in a performance lift. The RTX 4080 Super uses the AD103 core with full specifications, which is a further increase over the RTX 4080. As a core partner of NVIDIA, GIGABYTE launched the RTX 4080 Super series graphics cards for the first time, among which the AORUS RTX 4080 Super 16G is the luxury flagship product of the ultra public version.
The RTX 4080 Super specification has been upgraded, detonating 4K superpowers.
The RTX 4080 Super uses the full AD103 core, codenamed AD103-400, which is a significant improvement over the AD103-300 model of the RTX 4080. In terms of specific specifications, RTX 4080 SUPER has increased 2 texture processor clusters, 4 streaming units, 512 CUDA, and 16 texture units compared to RTX 4080, and the GPU acceleration frequency has been increased by 45MHz, the video memory lighting frequency has also been increased to 23Gbps, and the bandwidth has been increased to 736GBS. The overall specification has been improved by about 5%. In addition, according to the official data, the average gaming power of the RTX 4080 Super has been reduced to 246W, which shows that its power consumption control is better. In addition, the initial price of RTX 4080 Super is only 8099 yuan, which is 1400 yuan lower than the initial price of RTX 4080 at 9499 yuan, which shows that NVIDIA is still very sincere.
In addition, compared with the previous generation of RTX 3080 Ti, the specifications of RTX 4080 Super have been significantly improved, RT Cores and Tensor Cores have been fully upgraded, the L2 cache has increased by nearly 10 times, and the video memory capacity has also been increased to 16GB. And from the functional point of view, the RTX 4080 Super has dual codecs, and it also adds a hardware encoding function for **1, supporting DLSS 3 35. With the frame generation function that the RTX 3080 Ti does not have, the gaming experience is doubled. Therefore, for old users who are still using the RTX 3080 Ti, the RTX 4080 Supe with cross-generation specifications is well worth upgrading.
AORUS RTX 4080 Super Eagle 16G appreciation.
The overall shape of the RTX 4080 Super Eagle maintains the family design style of the new generation of Super Eagle, equipped with a wind power cooling system, and has three 110mm bionic shark dual ball bearing fans, which support forward and reverse and 3D start-stop technology, effectively increasing heat dissipation efficiency and reducing noise.
For the heat sink part, it adopts the design of vapor chamber directly touching the GPU, and has 12 composite heat pipes, the heat sink fins are angled design, and the air intake grille is equipped to effectively improve the heat dissipation efficiency of the whole machine.
An all-metal backplate is added to the back of the graphics card, and a custom graphics card bracket is included with the card, which effectively enhances the graphics card's ability to resist physical damage, and is more safe and reliable to install in a vertical case.
In terms of personalization, the RTX 4080 Super is equipped with a dazzling optical wheel RGB light, and the top of the graphics card is also equipped with an LCD screen, which can freely set the display content to create a mod console with a unique personality. In addition, the graphics card offers dual BIOS switches that allow you to quickly switch between silent mode and OC mode.
In terms of performance specifications, the RTX 4080 Super GPU boosts up to 2625 MHz, which is higher than the 2550 MHz of the public version, and the power cap can also be manually unlocked to 125%. In terms of video memory, the 256-bit 16GB GDDR6X can meet the needs of 4K high-frame ray tracing games and AI high-resolution mapping.
Let's take a look at the RTX 4080 Super Eagle in action.
Performance measurement: 4K game + AIGC sample line, super carving super ability.
Test platform. Graphics: AORUS RTX 4080 Super Eagle 16G
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Processor: Core i9 14900K
Memory: G.SKILL DDR5 6000 16GB 2
Motherboard: Z790 AORUS Master.
Hard disk: WD Black SN850X 2TB
Power supply: platinum carving AP1200GM
Operating system: Windows 11 Professional 23H2
Benchmark performance testing.
In terms of 3DMark benchmarks, the RTX 4080 Super has a roughly 3% 4% improvement over the RTX 4080 in 4K FireStrike Ultra and TimeSpy Extreme, and about the same improvement in 2K Xtime and FireStrike Extreme. However, with the addition of ray tracing and DLSS test items, the RTX 4080 Super is about 6% ahead of the RTX 4080 overall. In addition, we can also see that the RTX 4080 Super has a very impressive cross-generation upgrade relative to the RTX 3080 Ti, even reaching 56%. Compared to the RTX 4090, the RTX 4080 Super also achieves about 77% of its performance.
Rasterized game testing.
In terms of rasterized games, you can see that the RTX 4080 Super's performance at 4K resolution is very impressive, and the frame rate of all games can be maintained above 80fps except for a few very demanding games. Of course, there are a handful of hardware killer games that actually support DLSS, and the RTX 4080 Super is fully smooth when DLSS is turned on. At 2K, the RTX 4080 Super is a very easy one, after all, it is a 4K gaming GPU, so it can maintain a frame rate of more than 105 FPS for all games, and hundreds of frames per second for esports games.
If compared to the RTX 4090, the RTX 4080 Super can deliver about 74% of its gaming performance, which is a great value for the specs. In addition, the RTX 4080 Super is also a well-deserved sub-flagship under the RTX 4090D, and it is also a relatively easy 4K gaming weapon for enthusiast gamers.
Ray tracing and DLSS testing.
With ray tracing and DLSS enabled at the same time, the RTX 4080 Super can maintain a frame rate of more than 105FPS for most triple-A titles with DLSS, and around 100FPS at 2K resolution, even for hardware killer games. Therefore, gamers who buy the RTX 4080 Super can fully enable ray tracing and DLSS at the same time, and enjoy the ultimate experience of both graphics and frame rate. In addition, it can be seen from the comparison that with ray tracing and DLSS turned on at the same time, the RTX 4080 Super can achieve about 78% of the performance of the RTX 4090, which is quite cost-effective.
At 4K extreme image quality, "Cyberpunk 2077", "Alan Wake 2" and "A Plague Tale: Requiem" put a lot of pressure on the RTX 4080 Super, and if you only turn on DLSS 2, it can only be said that it just reaches the smooth standard of 60FPS. But with FSR3 enabled, the RTX 4080 Super can easily handle these three hardware killers, with an average frame rate of over 80fps. It can be seen that if the game supports DLSS 3, then RTX 40 GPU gamers must use it to get a huge performance boost.
Turn on DLSS 3 in Alan Wake 25 With the addition of light reconstruction technology (left), the detail of the water surface reflection has increased significantly.
We know that DLSS 35 Ray reconstruction technology has also been added to further enhance the details of the game's graphics. As you can see from the screenshots of the game of "Alan Wake 2", after turning on the light reconstruction technology, the reflection of the puddle on the ground is more detailed and the picture is clearer. DLSS 3 is currently supported5 games are also on the rise, and it is recommended that players with RTX 40 GPUs must turn on DLSS 3 in the game5 (including light reconstruction).
Based on the overall game test, the RTX 4080 Super has an overall performance improvement of about 5% compared to the RTX 4080, which can almost reach about 78% of the performance of the RTX 4090, and the cost performance is indeed quite outstanding. At the same time, the RTX 4080 Super can maintain a very high game frame rate for mainstream ray tracing games at 4K extreme image quality settings, and after turning on DLSS, it can handle the hardware killer game masterpieces, which can be called a 4K ray tracing game weapon. In addition, it supports DLSS 3 as well5's light reconstruction and other black technologies can further improve the picture quality, and the visual experience has also been further upgraded.
Productivity performance testing.
In terms of productivity, the RTX 4080 Super has 16GB of large video memory and full AD103 cores, so the efficiency aspect is also very impressive. Judging from the Blender, V-Ray, and Octanebench tests, the RTX 3080 Ti is ahead of the RTX 3080 Ti by about 115%, which can be said to be quite strong. If you add the results of SpecView and Premiere Pro 2024 to compare, the productivity performance of the RTX 4080 Super is about 147% of that of the RTX 3080 Ti, which is also a certain improvement over the RTX 4080.
AIGC performance test.
Stable Diffusion is the hottest native AI mapping tool at the moment, and the NVIDIA GPU is the most efficient and compatible device to run it. In the benchmark section of Stable Diffusion, we used the standard settings officially recommended by NVIDIA to make it easier to compare with previous test data. The sampling method is Euler A, the number of sampling steps is 50, and the CFG scale is 75. The number of drawings per batch is 2, the number of batches is 10, and the number of drawings per minute is finally counted. As you can see, the RTX 4080 Super's plot speed is about 105% of that of the RTX 4080, which is a 42% increase compared to the RTX 3080 Ti.
RTX Series GPUs can also be optimized with NVIDIA's TensorRT models, further dramatically improving the output speed of Stable Diffusion. We use NVIDIA Tensorrt for Stable Diffusion XL and Stable Diffusion v15 models were optimized to compare the changes in the plotting efficiency of the RTX 4080 Super before and after optimization.
Using Stable Diffusion v15, we chose 768, and 1024 1024 (the same as the ** resolution of the trained model) when using the stable Diffusion XL model.
In terms of other parameters, the sampling method is Euler A, the number of sampling steps is 50, the CFG scale is 7, the number of plots per batch is 1, and the batch is 10. From the test results, it can be seen that after using Tensorrt, the RTX 4080 Super has increased the speed of image production in three environments by % and 104%, which has more than doubled. Of course, the premise is that the player has an AI weapon like the RTX 4080 Super.
Power & Overclocking Testing.
In terms of power, from what we monitored with the NVIDIA FrameView tool, the average game power of the RTX 4080 Super among the 4 game masterpieces is the highest 318W, the lowest is 262W, and the overall average is 294W, which is not much different from the nominal average power, only 92% of the 320W board power, which shows that the energy efficiency performance of the RTX 4080 Super is also very good.
With the Furmark test machine, you can see that the full load power of the RTX 4080 Super Eagle is maintained at about 325W, and the core temperature is 581. The hot spot temperature is 666. The video memory temperature is 52, which is quite amazing for a luxury-level 4K gaming graphics card. At the same time, we can also see that the fan speed is only 36%, so the noise is also quite well controlled.
We have simply overclocked the RTX 4080 Super, increasing the core frequency by 250MHz and the video memory by 200MHz, and we can see that in the 3DMark TimeSpy test, its core frequency has reached 3090MHz, and the measured TimeSpy GPU score has reached 30682, which is a further improvement compared to the default frequency.
Summary: The luxurious choice of 4K games, super eagle detonates the "80" superpower.
As the flagship model of the RTX 40 Super series, the RTX 4080 Super is positioned for a 4K high frame rate gaming experience. It uses the full version of the AD103 core,The overall specifications are about 5% upgrade relative to RTX 4080,The actual performance can reach about 78% of RTX 4090,And the initial price is only 8099 yuan,In this way, the operation of "increasing the amount and reducing the price" undoubtedly makes it cost-effective sharply,nvidiaThis upgrade is indeed full of sincerity。
In addition, DLSS 3 35. Black technology has also brought a huge improvement in game frame rate and image quality to RTX 4080 Super. For example, Cyberpunk 2077, Alan Wake 2, and A Plague Tale: Requiem put a lot of stress on the graphics card at 4K Extreme with ray tracing enabled, but the RTX 4080 Super put a lot of pressure on the graphics card with DLSS 3 3 turned on5After that, you can easily achieve an average frame rate of more than 80fps, which can completely achieve the ultimate in image quality and speed, which is very worthy of the first choice of 4K gamers.
At the same time, DLSS 35 The new light reconstruction technology can also greatly improve the rendering accuracy, bringing players more refined game graphics. At present, there are many games that support DLSS 3, and future games will generally provide support for DLSS 3 35, which also makes it more reasonable for veteran players to upgrade the RTX 4080 Super.
In terms of productivity, the RTX 4080 Super has 256bit 16GB of video memory, which can provide excellent productivity among various productivity tools. In addition, in terms of AIGC, NVIDIA TensorRT has greatly improved the image production speed of RTX 40 GPUs in Stable Diffusion, so that designers and users who choose RTX 4080 SUPER to complete AI graphics tasks have increased their efficiency, and RTX 40 GPU has an unshakable position as the preferred AI acceleration tool.
Overall, the RTX 4080 Super, as the flagship of the RTX 40 Super series, has the full AD103 core specifications and 16GB of large video memory, which can not only enjoy the ultimate 4K ray tracing in the latest triple-A masterpieces, but also provide an extremely smooth frame rate experience. At the same time, it is also an efficient tool for AIGC, especially with the blessing of TensorRT, the speed of AI image production can be doubled, and it is indeed the first choice for AI users. As the luxury flagship of the RTX 4080 Super, the RTX 4080 Super has a powerful wind power cooling system, luxurious materials and high power improvement space, which can be called the audiophile choice of the RTX 4080 Super.