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The RTX 4080 is here, but will it surprise or disappoint with a 50% price hike compared to the previous RTX 3080? Well at least its still cheaper than a 4090, and we’ll see how they compare.
How’s it going everybody welcome to we do tech. and my look at the Gigabyte Aorus Master RTX 4080. Recently I dd my review of the RTX 4090 Gaming OC which pricing and power aside delivered crazy performance, absolutely destroying games in 4K. But now will the 4080 surprise me the same? Let’s find out.
Before we begin are you planning to upgrade to the new RTX 4000 or sticking to your current setup? Or maybe even switching to something else?
Starting off with pricing the RTX 4080 has an MSRP of $1200 which is more than a 50% hike compared to the RTX 3080 at launch of $700 and is the same price as the 3080Ti at launch. Sounds like Nvidia thinks everyone is still use to scalper prices to me.
However, for the Aorus Master RTX 4080 it will most likely cost $100 more at around $1300. The Gaming and Eagle will be slightly cheaper. We will see how it performs at that price point because just like I mentioned in my 4090 review. With mining being dead now there are a lot of good second-hand deals for a lot cheaper.
Specs wise the 4080 has less cores than a 3080 ti and a smaller memory bus even compared to the 3080 10GB, which is disappointing. But with 16GB of VRAM and much faster clock speeds it somewhat makes up for it. The 12GB version is also turning into the 4070Ti, so we’ll see how that turns out later.
If you watched my Gaming OC 4090 review you’d remember I was blown away by the size of that card. Well this card is even bigger. The 4080 uses the same shroud and believe cooling system than the 4090 Master. So its massive but cooling wont be a problem here. However, your case might have a bit of a problem fitting this because its almost a 4 slot card and might be the largest 4000 series card. So just make sure about the dimensions first. – L=357 W=163 H=75 mm
The styling is still relatively simple with the black and grey colors. But what’s not simple is the LCD display on the side which can show temperature, clock, usage and fan speed as well as text, a picture, gif or just Aorus eagle. Which I like very much. One kind of weird thing was the RGB on the fans. The new design Gigabyte went with only lets the RGB light up when the fans are spinning and on lower RPM it kind of strobes. It’s only until its over 70% that it looks solid. I personally didn’t find it a problem but some might. On the positive side it’s a bit of a different effect. You also have the dual BIOS switch on the side for performance or quite mode.
For IO, just like the 4090 you get
3x Display Ports v1.4a
1x HDMI 2.1 ports
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Power
As for power, you again get the new 16 pin PCIe 5 power connector but now only needs 3x 8pin connections instead of 4 for the adaptor. Just like in the 4090 video, be careful with the adaptor as there was a couple that burnt out. So for now to be safe just don’t bend the adaptor too much. Or get one of the new power Supply with a dedicated cable.
As for the power draw the 4080 has a rated TDP of 320W. In most games power draw ranged between 250w to 300w. But I did see 330w spikes as well. I did also bump up the power draw with a slight overclock and then I saw spikes to just below 350w. Because of that a 850w or higher is recommended. Especially if you’re running an i9 13900K as well, like I did for the benchmarks. Then the 750w I had isn’t really going to cut it. Luckily Cooler Master sent over their M2000, a 2000w platinum power supply that I think will last me at least till next year.
Because the 4080 Master again uses the same the 4090 but uses over 100w less. Cooling was no issue here, with an ambient temperature of 23degrees the card never went over 60degress and 71 % fan speed. The fans do ramp up quite quickly form 0 to over 50% on the default fan curve, however you can adjust that to your liking. As for the fans they are quite large at 110mm, almost desktop size fans. Which helps keep temps and noise down, with it only reached 43dBs at 70% fan speed with a room noise of 38dBs, so its not loud at all. Like the pervious cards the 2 outer fans rotate counter clockwise, while the center fan rotates clockwise, this is to reduce turbulence. The fans also have a fan stop mode, meaning if the card is under low load.
As for how the 4080 Master performed, well paired up with the super toasty i9 13900K, 32GB of Kingston Fury Beast RGB memory running at 5600Mhz and the Aorus Z790 Master board..
With all of the games set to ultra with no DLSS on 1440p, all the games reached over 100 fps. When enabling DLSS or FSR and ray tracing we get a nice up to 25% increase. Except for the new A Plague Tale which hit almost 70%.
Then for 4K, it was only Cyberpunk on ultra without DLSS that fell below 60fps all the reset with pretty much max settings on 4k did over 60 FPS, not bad. And by enabling DLSS you get upwards of a 50% bump in FPS. And now instead of 70% for a Plague Tale you get 90%. This makes 4K 144fps much easier to obtain, by just by dropping the settings slightly and enabling DLSS.
Unfortunately, I did not have any 3090 or 3090ti’s to test on the new 13900K system. But I was able to compare it to the RTX 4090 and on 1440p the 4090 was between 7-50% faster than the 4080. However in 4K it goes up to between 24 to 45% which is quite the difference.
When it comes to Blender the 4090 is slightly over 30% faster and in SPECviewperf its around 25% faster.
As for Clockspeeds, the reference Nvidia card has a boost clock of 2.51Ghz while the Master hits 2550Ghz. That’s on paper, in game on stock it averaged 2835Ghz and with a slight overclock it hit 2880Ghz. With enough tinkering you might be able to even hit 3000Ghz on air. Although I haven’t really tried.
In conclusion, the 4080 doesn’t disappoint in performance. However, at the price range its going to keep a lot of previous 80 buyers away. And at 33% cheaper than the 4090 but also around 25% slower. The 4090 might actually be a better buy. I would have liked to see how it compared to the 3090 and 3080 ti because at the price its not comparable to the 3080 anymore.
So my final thought are that the Master is a nice looking card, I especially like the LCD on the side, but more than that the cooling was very good.
But is the 4080 worth buying? Well we will probably get a 4080ti and the x 4080 12GB is turning into the 4070 ti, so I would honestly wait to see how they compare and if the performance is any closer. But 4K 144fps easily possible with this card, now I just need to get a 4K 144hz screen.
Gigabyte RTX 4090 Gaming OC Review
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