Nvidia RTX 4080 Super Review

1. Introduction2. Meet the RTX 4080 Super Founders Edition3. Testing Methodology4. 3DMark Fire Strike & Time Spy5. 3DMark DirectX Raytracing6. Alan Wake II7. Assassin's Creed Mirage8. Cyberpunk 20779. Forza Horizon 510. The Last of Us Part 111. A Plague Tale: Requiem12. Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart13. Red Dead Redemption 214. Resident Evil 415. Returnal16. Starfield17. Total War: Pharaoh18. Performance Summary (12-Game Average)19. Clock Speed Investigation20. Cost Per Frame Analysis21. Ray Tracing: Alan Wake II22. Ray Tracing: Avatar Frontiers of Pandora23. Ray Tracing: Cyberpunk 207724. Ray Tracing: F1 2325. Ray Tracing: Hitman 326. Ray Tracing: Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart27. Ray Tracing: Returnal28. Ray Tracing: Shadow of the Tomb Raider29. Ray Tracing Performance Summary30. DLSS Testing31. Clock Speed32. GPU Temperatures33. Memory Temperatures34. Acoustics35. Noise-Normalised Temperatures36. Power Draw: 1080p37. Power Draw: 1440p38. Power Draw: 2160p (4K)39. Performance per Watt: 1080p40. Performance per Watt: 1440p41. Performance per Watt: 2160p (4K)42. Total System Power Draw43. Overclocking44. Closing Thoughts45. View All Pages

During the review process, I did pass on my feedback to Nvidia that performance gains for the 4080 Super were not at all impressive or even noticeable versus the RTX 4080. As part of the discussions, they mentioned that my RTX 4080 (non-Super) Founders Edition was a ‘good' model, hitting an average gaming clock speed above what Nvidia typically saw in their own testing. As such, I calculated the average clock speed of both the RTX 4080 and RTX 4080 Super Founders Edition, as recorded by FrameView, in all 12 games tested, across 1080p, 1440p and 4K.

Looking at the data we did see a small frequency advantage for the 4080 non-Super, as it was clocking roughly 60MHz faster at any given resolution. That's just a 2% difference on average though, and we have to ask if something so insignificant can really change the picture that much – clearly there is just a very, very minimal difference between the performance of the 4080 and 4080 Super.

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