NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER Founder edition review
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AuerX
Best in its price class for gamers that enjoy the latest features and tech.
wavetrex
Maybe, but let's not forget a GTX 1080 was "latest features and tech" when it launched and it started at $599, and was dropped to $499 when 1080 Ti launched.
Also a 256-bit card, full chip (not cut, like the 4080 Super is now)
I just can't stomach $1000+ GPU (1100€ or more around these parts), it's highway robbery.
bballfreak6
That’s crazy we’ve had some pretty solid price cuts from retailers on the vanilla 4080 here in Australia (which is why I was so glad I didn’t wait for the Super release).
Undying
Here it starts at 1125€ for the Trinity and Ventus 3x. Around the same as OG 4080.
tunejunky
not
but that depends on what you consider features and which technologies you support.
i have eminently playable "features and tech" on my 7900xtx for less money with more vram and better 4k performance
i however, only play @ native
AuerX
Well, at least your honest about your bias.
chispy
Great review @Hilbert Hagedoorn , on point.
It's a Meh... at best product. I think the only one worth it of the Supers is the 4070 Super in my humble opinion.
Neo Cyrus
Believe me, you're not missing much by using a Radeon. I have 6950XT I've been running tests on, and I'm not missing any nVidia features at all. The only RT I care about is reflections because for some fucking reason PC devs ONLY use turbo trash reflections that are worse than Stalin if it's not RT for whatever reason... FSR2 is (usually) fine, frame gen is hit-and-miss on both, and I certainly don't miss the nv control panel. Though they both are utter trash at multiscreen support.
I was surprised to see that FSR2 looks like crap in Ratchet & Clank (fur textures turn into pixelated ass), but that doesn't matter much since Intel ironically saves the day there with their non-Matrix/inferior variant of XeSS which is superior to FSR2 in that game. Throw AMD's sharpening onto XeSS and DLSS is no longer needed.
Between a 4080/S and a 7900XTX, I'd take the XTX without a doubt.
pegasus1
At SCAN
4080 - £1090 - £1280
4080S - £1010 - £1150
At OCUK
4080S - £1000 - £1200
OCUK had Gainward and Zotac 4080S at £960 yesterday but sold out today.
pegasus1
The 7900XTX can be had for £100 less than a 4080S in the UK, thats half a GPU block.
Its a tricky one for sure, right now for me id go 4080S but thats just for the RT performance, but the games i play most often (COH3, DCS) do not use RT (yet), and thats the point, RT is the future whether heavy or lightly applied and i know Eagle Dynamics (DCS) will be incorporating into the Sim hopefully this year now they have Vulkan and DLSS in the Beta.
Solfaur
Still too expensive, but I guess a "step" in the right direction. Too little, too late some would say. I would still rather go for a 4090 if I were to buy a GPU, since it's still the "best" bang for buck...
pegasus1
Hopefully the 4090 with be the 8800GTX/1080Ti of its time, good for at least two or even three generations.
But if Eagle Dynamics brings well implemented RT to DCS and the 4090 struggles, il be buying whatever comes next if it has the performance.
nizzen
4080 super is selling like crazy here in Norway. It's selling more than every AMD gpu combined, it looks like
Almost every 4080 super is sold out, and the stock was actual pretty high.
pegasus1
Imagine the 4080S becomes a massive success, the haters will go out of their minds ha ha ha ha.
bballfreak6
In the end it all comes down to what kind of games you play and what you prioritise; if you don’t care for things like RT or upscaling then something like the cheaper 7900XTX is clearly the better option with better raster and more VRAM. Myself play games like CP2077 and AW2 and I like my eye candy so the 4080 was a no brainer.
You’re only wasting money if you spent it without knowing why.
In Australia some base models of 4080 went on sale for as low as $1499 AUD (sales tax included) but the cheapest 4080S you can find (at least when I last checked) cost $1870 AUD lol…
pegasus1
Play now yes but we all need to look to the future, few buy an expensive card just for current games, we all have an eye on how a card will perform with tomorrows games and i think RT will become more and more of a thing.
Glottiz
Crazy indeed. 5080 is probably 10-12 months away. But people buy this dated 1.5 year old tech like it's new.
pegasus1
4080S is new, it only went on sale yesterday, or do you not like somebody having something you dont?
mackintosh
Why are some people so butthurt that other people think this card is a decent enough deal? I'm seeing a bit of what nizzen is seeing here too, several models that had very decent stock are now sold out. It looks like people were waiting for this price drop and have made their move.
Personally, I'm still in the "too expensive for what it offers" camp, but obviously for whatever reason the market feels differently. I suppose the expectation is that the next gen will neither be cheaper nor a significant enough advancement to make these cards immediately obsolete - and twelve months is twelve months. That's a lot of gaming.
AuerX
Obviously you should not buy anything that might hurt somebody's feelings.
