RTX 4080 Price Checkup: Amazon $958 | Best Buy $959. 99 | New Egg $959. 99
When Nvidia introduced the GeForce RTX 4080 Super earlier this year, we were pleased to see that its MSRP was lower than the original RTX 4080 — $999 instead of $1,199 — a much better deal. But given that it’s only a fraction faster, the RTX 4080 Super still didn’t seem to be a wonderful value.
But this MSI deal goes a long way to counter that and has more than $140 shaved off the Super’s suggested retail price.
So what exactly do you get for your $856? As with all existing Nvidia RTX 40 series, it is powered through the Ada Lovelace architecture, which is famous for its low power consumption but intense gaming. The RTX 4080 Super has 10,240 CUDA cores (you can call them shaders if you want). and the 2595 MHz dynamic clock of this MSI model means it has a maximum FP32 performance of 53. 1 TFLOPS.
If you’re not sure if that’s a lot, only the Radeon RX 7900 XTX and RTX 4090 are above (61. 4 and 82. 6 TFLOPS, respectively).
The RX 7900 16GB) and is slightly faster at popular rasterization of games, the RTX 4080 Super is significantly faster when using ray tracing.
And then you have the full set of DLSS 3. 5 features from the RTX card. Both GPUs help with frame scaling and performance interpolation, although Nvidia’s AI-based systems are sometimes better, especially its frame-generating system. In terms of performance, there’s not much that separates them, but you could say that DLSS produces better results.
Another thing the RTX 4080 Super is better at is managing its power consumption. On paper, there’s rarely much separating them, with the Nvidia card capped at 320W and the Radeon capped at 355W. However, in real-world gaming, the Ada Lovelace chip stays around 300W, while the RDNA 3 processor tops 340W.
This makes it easier for the graphics card cooler to keep things a little less difficult. . . uh. . . cool, and more importantly, it means the RTX 4080 Super is the quieter of the two cards .
At $999, the GeForce RTX 4080 Super is a perfect but expensive graphics card, but with this deal, it’s a much bigger deal. That’s still a lot of money, of course, but until the next generation of GPUs from AMD, Intel, and Nvidia arrive, this is about as smart as it gets right now.
Nick, gaming and PCs first collided in 1981, with a love affair that began with a Sinclair ZX81 in kit form and an e-book about ZX Basic. He ended up becoming a physics and computer science teacher, but in the late 1990s it was time to start writing for a long-defunct British tech site. He then did the same at Madonion, helping write the support files for 3DMark and PCMark. After a brief stint at Beyond3D. com, Nick joined Futuremark (renamed MadOnion) full-time, as editor of its games and hardware arm, YouGamers. After the site closed, he became a professor of engineering and computer science for many years, but he had no taste for writing. Think 4 years in TechSpot. com and over a hundred lengthy articles on any topic. He freely admits that he’s too obsessed with GPUs and open-world RPGs, but who is rarely very current in those days?
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