In November 2022, Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080 was officially released, but the first release of 9499 yuan** still made many high-end players hesitate a little, after all, the top flagship GeForce RTX 4090 performance was better than it by more than 20%. For Fu Ge, instead of choosing the RTX 4080 top-level non-public graphics card, 12999 yuan is in place in one step RTX 4090, which will be more worthwhile in terms of performance and arrangement.
After more than 1 year, Nvidia launched a new GeForce RTX 4080 Super, which not only achieved an upgrade in specifications while maintaining the same power consumption, but also dropped 1400 yuan for the first time, and came to 8099 yuan. Considering the RTX 4080 Super's performance of "reducing costs and increasing efficiency", Nvidia also announced the glorious retirement of RTX 4080 in advance.
As the head brand of the graphics card, Rainbow has also launched**iGame RTX 4080 Super Ultra W OC 16G graphics card, not only the appearance adopts a pure white color, the materials are also good, and the most important thing is that the non-OC version** also maintains the same 8099 yuan as the RTX 4080 Super public version of the graphics card, and the price of the OC version is 8499 yuan, among the many RTX 4080 Super non-public graphics cards, In addition to the cost performance that everyone is very familiar with, its face-to-price ratio is also particularly prominent, so let's take a look at its actual performance from the outside to the inside in this review.
The GeForce RTX 4080 Super is equipped with AD103-400-A1 cores, and the number of CUDA cores, Tensor Cores, and RT Cores, has increased by 5% compared to the RTX 4080, and the core clock has been slightly improved, and the boost frequency has reached 2550MHz. In terms of video memory, although it is still 16GB GDDR6X with a width of 256 bits, the video memory transfer rate is from 224 Gbps to 23 Gbps. In terms of power consumption, the TDP of the RTX 4080 Super is still 320W, and the overall performance is more efficient.
As a non-public graphics card, the Colorful iGame RTX 4080 Super Ultra W OC can increase the acceleration frequency by another 45MHz to 2595 MHz after pressing the one-button OC button. The default power consumption limit of the whole card is the same as that of the public version, which is 320W, and the maximum power consumption can be up to 360W when manually unlocked.
The outer packaging of the graphics card continues the design style of the Colorful RTX 40 Ultra series, using the iconic vaporwave elements. Under the illumination of light, the surface of the packaging has a kind of color gradient effect when viewed from different angles. This design is also placed on the "super" label on the front, which highlights the special features of this graphics card in terms of model number.
In addition to the graphics card body, there is also a small box of igame and a triple 8pin to 12vhpwr adapter cable. The box contains a pair of white gloves with the basic configuration of igame graphics cards、A manual、A warranty card and a round card printed on the front of the two-dimensional lady,The back of the card is a ***After sweeping, it is a rainbow VIP housekeeper***You can receive some brand benefits。
I have to say,This young lady looks a little quiet.,There's no other brand of xx Ji's flamboyant appearance.,I don't know if she will change her image a little in the future and become the two-dimensional image signboard of Rainbow's own house?
The size of the Colorful iGame RTX 4080 Super Ultra W OC graphics card graphics card is 3225*134.5*61mm, the thickness of the graphics card is not much, no less, just came to the three slots. The weight of the graphics card is 1587g, which is really not heavy compared to the public version of 2128g.
On the front appearance, the whole card is based on the white color scheme, incorporating the asymmetrical armor shape and the same pop style design on the outer packaging, and the array pattern composed of the igame logo and small dots covers the ground and fan axis of the graphics card, which will reflect different gradient brilliance when viewed from different angles. The three 100mm fans are equipped with double ball bearings with high durability and use 9-wing annular fan blades, which can gather airflow while being beautiful, effectively increasing the air pressure and air intake volume of the fans.
On the side of the graphics card, there is the iconic "GeForce RTX" text on the side of the N card, and on the back is the comic-style colorful Ultra series logo.
The front panel and metal back panel of the graphics card have been lengthened to cover the exposed parts of the heat pipes of the unsightly heat sink and make the graphics card look more integrated. There are three screw holes in the back plate extension, which can be used to further strengthen the graphics card with the bracket accessories that fit the graphics card.
The white back panel of the graphics card is also painted with a pop dot pattern, and it is also accompanied by the same pink Ultra logo on the side, and the heat dissipation opening on the back plate is a regular operation on RTX 40 series high-end graphics cards.
The graphics card interface is still 3*DP 14a+1*hdmi 2.1. Combination, the bezel has an open hole hollowing treatment, which can assist the graphics card heat dissipation to a certain extent. The core one-key overclocking button of the colorful igame series graphics card is not absent, it is overclocking mode when pressed, and it is the default mode when it pops up, and users can decide whether to enable it according to their own use needs.
Let's take a look at the cooling module after removing the graphics card. The heat dissipation module of the Colorful iGame RTX 4080 Super Ultra W OC graphics card has a large area of heat dissipation fins, 5 6mm and 2 8mm heat pipes are connected through the reflow soldering process, and finally converge on the same large area of heat dissipation copper base, fully contact with the graphics card core and video memory chip. At the same time, the heat dissipation fins also leave a part of the thermal conductivity position for the power supply module of the graphics card, which can also play some auxiliary heat dissipation effects.
The metal backplane is carefully labeled with a thermally conductive sticker, which not only enhances the efficiency of thermal conduction, but also prevents the metal from coming into contact with components or solder joints on the PCB that can cause short circuits.
The length of the PCB is not long, accounting for about 2 3 of the whole card, there is no limit to the public version, the position of the power supply module is not filled, and the number of power supply phases can be added to 6 more phases.
In the middle of the PCB is the GPU core, codenamed AD103-400-A1, surrounded by a total of 8 memory particles from Micron, numbered 3VU47D8BZF, with a memory rate of 23Gbps and a single capacity of 2GB, a total of 16GB of GDDR6X video memory.
The power supply of the graphics card is a 14+3-phase design, with a 14-phase core power supply and a 3-phase memory power supply, using the power supply scheme of Xinyuan Semiconductor, and the MOSFET models are MP87990. The power supply part of the core display uses small IPP inductors and chip capacitors, while each phase of the core power supply is paired with the ordinary columnar capacitors of R22 inductors.
The PWM power supply control chip is on the back of the PCB, the core power supply PWM controller is UP9512R, the video memory PWM controller is UP9529Q, and there is a US5650Q for power monitoring.
The CPU of this test platform is equipped with components such as Intel Core i7-14700K, MSI MPG Z790 Edge Ti Max WiFi and Huntkey 1200W power supply, which can also ensure the full performance of the tested graphics card.
Compare the RTX 4080 Super public version, RTX 4090D, and the RX 7900XTX from the AMD camp to see how much better it is than the public version, and what the gap between it and the RTX 4090D and RX 7900XTX will be.
First of all, we will use 3D Mark as the benchmark performance test of the graphics card, including Fire Strike, Fire Strike Extreme, Fire Strike Ultra, Time Spy, Time Spy Extreme, Port Royal, and Speed Way. Among them, Fire Strike, Fire Strike Extreme, and Fire Strike Ultra test the performance index of the graphics card at 1080p resolution, 2K resolution and 4K resolution in DX11 games, respectively, and the two items of Time Spy and Time Spy Extreme are the performance index of the graphics card at 2K resolution and 4K resolution in DX12 games Royal is the performance index of the tested graphics card real-time ray tracing, and the specific results are shown in the table below, which are all 3D Mark graphics card scores.
The Colorful iGame RTX 4080 Super Ultra W OC in our hands is slightly stronger than the RTX 4080 Super Public Edition in most of the 3D Mark test categories, with a maximum lead of 2%.
Colorful iGame RTX 4080 Super Ultra W OC can basically play most mainstream 3A games on the market in the 4K resolution game test session, while games with super high demand for next-generation graphics and graphics cards such as Cyberpunk 2077 and Alan Wake 2 are a little difficult, and they still have to rely on DLSS technology to break through 60 frames.
After turning on ray tracing, the RTX 4080 Super gradually struggled, but the performance of the RTX 4090 D was not so good that it was **, which shows that the performance of the consumer game graphics cards currently on the market is difficult to play native 4K ray tracing games smoothly without the help of software technology.
In native 2K raster gaming tests, the Colorful iGame RTX 4080 Super Ultra W OC naturally coped with it more comfortably. In the few major games we tested, we were able to achieve a consistent performance of more than 90 fps. With native 2K ray tracing, the Colorful iGame RTX 4080 Super Ultra W OC is also guaranteed to run smoothly at more than 60 fps.
In our DLSS performance tests, we used NVIDIA FrameView to record the game's frame rate and latency. The test items are still the above four ray tracing games, they all support DLSS 2 super resolution and DLSS 3 frame generation, and E-people "Cyberpunk 2077" and "Alan Wake 2" support DLSS 35. Ray reconstruction.
To better reflect the performance boost brought by DLSS, Cyberpunk 2077 is preset with "Ray Tracing: Speed", while Alan Wake 2 is set to "Ray Tracing: High", both with path tracing enabled. And because the RTX 4080 Super's performance at native 2K resolution can already play all the games in the test category, for this reason, the DLSS test of the Colorful iGame RTX 4080 Super Ultra W OC was set at 4K resolution.
Judging from the test results, with the blessing of the super resolution and frame generation function of DLSS technology, the game performance of the Colorful iGame RTX 4080 Super Ultra W OC graphics card has been improved to varying degrees, and DLSS 3 35 has achieved a remarkable effect of more than 2 times the number of native frames. Among them, the average frame rate of Warhammer 40K: Darktide and A Plague Tale: Requiem exceeded 90 frames, reaching a relatively smooth level.
If the RTX 4080 Super doesn't perform significantly differently from the RTX 4080 in gaming, it can be better demonstrated in AI creation performance tests, which require a high number of TensorRT cores.
In the Stable Diffusion AI drawing test, we used NVIDIA's own TensorRT SDK to optimize the speed of the calculation, and the specific settings of Stable Diffusion are batch size 1, batch count 10, CFG scale 7, and sampling steps 50.
It can be seen that with the increase of the resolution of the plot, the advantages of TensorRT become more and more obvious. At 1024 x 1024 resolution, Tensorrt's IPM is nearly double that of Xformer.
Thanks to the full blood AD103-400 core, RTX 4080 Super has also improved a lot, especially at 1024*1024 resolution, the difference in drawing speed with RTX 4080 is close to 2, and compared with RTX 4090D, it is only 06 sheets.
In terms of 3D rendering, D5 Render already supports DLSS35 technology, RTX40 series graphics card can be greatly improved in the rendering frame rate of this software. According to the test results of various software, the creation performance of the RTX 4080 SUPER is improved by an average of 3 compared to the RTX 408067%。
Our GPU cooling tests are all performed in a bare-metal state (the GPU temperature is about 5 times higher if installed in a case) at an ambient temperature of around 25. The standby temperature is recorded for 10 minutes after the boot is turned on, and the full-load temperature is recorded after the 3DMark stress test is completed, and the data is recorded through the log to file function of the GPU-Z, and the following is the temperature test curve.
The Colorful iGame RTX 4080 Super Ultra W OC graphics card supports fan standby stopping, so the standby temperature is the temperature under passive cooling, and after 10 minutes of standby testing, the GPU temperature has increased from 31 at the beginning5 degrees Celsius rises to 39Around 1 degree Celsius, the hottest temperature is the lowest at the beginning of 407 degrees Celsius, the latter part is 495 degrees Celsius.
At full load, the maximum temperature is 672 degrees Celsius, and the hottest temperature is also 75 degrees Celsius, which is the normal level for this price segment.
As can be seen from the GPU-Z, the colorful iGame RTX 4080 Super Ultra W OC graphics card will stop the fan when it is in standby, truly achieving 0 decibel noise, and the fan will start when the load and temperature exceed a certain level, and the maximum fan speed is 1923 rpm when fully loaded.
With the PCAT suite in our hands, we can accurately measure the PCI-E of the graphics card, the wattage of the external power interface, the maximum power consumption of the graphics card is obtained in the 3DMark Time Spy Extreme stress test, and the standby power consumption is recorded after entering the system.
According to the results of the power consumption test, the standby power consumption of this colorful iGame RTX 4080 Super Ultra W OC graphics card has reached a maximum of 30427W, full load peak power consumption up to 356169W, but most of the time around 320W. Generally speaking, it is easier to use a 750W power supply, but if the power consumption of other components is also high, it is recommended to use an 850W or even higher power supply.
In the above tests, the core frequency of the Colorful iGame RTX 4080 Super Ultra W OC graphics card can reach up to 2775MHz when fully loaded, which is 180MHz higher than the boost frequency of 2595MHz.
The above test knows that the maximum fan speed when the graphics card is fully loaded is 1923 rpm, and the PWM is about 48%, we put the graphics card into an anechoic chamber with an ambient noise of only 18 dba, adjust the fan to the same speed, and then test its noise level at a distance of 50 cm, because the fan is stalled when the graphics card is in standby, so there is no need to test.
In the anechoic chamber, the measured noise of the Colorful iGame RTX 4080 Super Ultra W OC graphics card is 398dba, with a slight wind sound, which is not particularly noticeable in everyday use scenarios.
We use MSI Afterburner for overclocking, and the graphics card temperature and power consumption limits are turned on to the maximum, but the GPU frequency of the graphics card cannot be pulled much, only increased by 230MHz, and the range of video memory frequency adjustment is considerable, directly from 1438MHz to 1600MHz, passed the 3DMark Time Spy test, and the graphics card score at this time is 30834 points, which is 7 higher than the default performance6%, the performance improvement is still quite good, but the temperature and power consumption have definitely increased.
Although the overall test, the performance of RTX 4080 Super is basically not much different from RTX 4080, and the improvement is also relatively weak, but in combination with **, the cost performance has improved compared to the past. For users with 2K resolution monitors, the RTX 4080 Super is capable of delivering very good frame rates in both regular raster and ray-traced games, and even with a 4K monitor, most games can run smoothly with DLSS technology.
As a mid-to-high-end graphics card with a balanced and beautiful appearance, Ultra W has always had a good public reputation, with a pure white design, cool painting shape, and solid workmanship materials. The most important thing is that the price of iGame RTX 4080 Super Ultra W OC 16GB 8499 yuan is not high compared to other non-public versions of RTX 4080 Super OC graphics cards, which also makes it one of the lowest white RTX 4080 Super graphics card models, which is very worth considering for players who want to assemble a high-end pure white console.