Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080 Founders Edition Review

Test Setup

Any chance we get to revisit our test suite and revise it is going to be one we take. Some of our gaming benchmarks have become a little bit long in the tooth, so today we’re making wholesale changes. Naturally some titles still hold up, and some are going to be new and therefore have relatively limited comparisons. We’ve also moved our graphs from portrait to landscape. Do not adjust your set.

Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080 Founders Edition
AMD Ryzen 9 3950X
ASUS ROG Crosshair VIII Formula
Corsair Dominator Platinum RGB Series DDR4 3600MHz
Corsair HX1500i PSU
Corsair iCUE H150i RGB Pro XT AIO
Corsair MP600 2TB PCIe 4.0 SSD
Corsiar Obsidian 500D RGB SE
Windows 11

Clock Speeds

Such is the refinement of the GPU Boost technology these days, the boost clock rating is almost immaterial. Here Nvidia rate the RTX 4080 at 2505 MHz boost, but we averaged a whole 250 MHz higher. A good demonstration of the coolers performance, especially as it was designed for the RTX 4090 but used on the less powerful RTX 4080.