If you intend to play at 4K, this is the card to get.
The GeForce RTX 30 series was characterized be extremes.
It’s in this setting that the RTX 40 series makes its debut.
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That leaves us with the 16GB version of the RTX 4080.
The Colorful variant I’m using costs $1,249.
Similar to its predecessor, the 4080 gets a TDP of 320W.
The RTX 30 series introduced hardware-level AV1 decode, and that’s available here as well.
The AD103 silicon has seven raster engines, and each of these has six Texture Processing Clusters.
The TPC houses two Streaming Multiprocessors and a Polymorph unit.
But NVIDIA lobbed off four TPCs for the RTX 4080, so we get 9,728 cores instead.
Possibly the biggest change with this generation is the introduction of DLSS 3.
It consumes less than 20W when idling, going up to 25W for video playback.
While gaming, it hits just over 300W, a full 40W less than the Founders Edition RTX 3080.
AMD’s Radeon RX 7900 XT is also an enticing choice if you’re interested in 4K gaming.
Colorful GeForce RTX 4080: Should you buy it?
However, all of those gains come at a cost.
For now though, the RTX 4080 is the best option if you want effortless 4K gaming.
Colorful did a great job with the GeForce RTX 4080 NB EX-V.
(Image credit: Harish Jonnalagadda / Windows Central)
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(Image credit: Harish Jonnalagadda / Windows Central)
(Image credit: Harish Jonnalagadda / Windows Central)
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