ASUS GeForce RTX 4080 STRIX OC Review

Source: Tech Power Up added 18th Nov 2022

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Introduction

ASUS ROG Strix GeForce RTX 4080 OC is the company’s top air-cooled, factory overclocked rendition of the GeForce RTX 4080 “Ada” being launched today, and the company’s attempt to beat the NVIDIA Founders Edition in the aesthetics game. Premium multi-tone metal surfaces and a cyberpunk-esque ensemble of shapes concealing RGB LED elements, create something that truly elevates your gaming PC build’s appearance. This is also the physically-largest custom-design RTX 4080 we have in our wide selection of custom-design graphics card reviews published for you today.

NVIDIA designed the GeForce RTX 4080 “Ada” with many of the same design goals as its generational flagship launched last month, the RTX 4090. With this card, you get to play any of today’s games at 4K Ultra HD with maxed out settings, including ray tracing; but at a more acceptable price-point of $1,200 (NVIDIA baseline price), which is 25% less than that of the RTX 4090. Of course partners like ASUS have done a ton of value-addition, and so their premium custom-designs will be priced higher. This ASUS ROG Strix, for example, is priced at $1550, which is just $50 shy of the RTX 4090 baseline.

The RTX 4080 succeeds both the RTX 3080 10 GB and the RTX 3080 12 GB. This was originally meant to be the RTX 4080 16 GB, with a more affordable $900 12 GB variant supposed to launch today, which NVIDIA decided not to launch due to a branding problem. The RTX 4080 16 GB still has a mighty specs-sheet, with 9,728 CUDA cores, 304 4th gen Tensor Cores, 76 3rd gen RT cores, 304 TMUs, and 112 ROPs. While NVIDIA has enlarged the memory size generationally to 16 GB GDDR6X, the memory bus is actually narrower, at 256-bit. The memory ticks at a higher data-rate of 22.4 Gbps (compared to 19 Gbps of the RTX 3080), and the company enlarged the on-die caches on the silicon, which should make up for the slight bandwidth shortfall.

The ASUS ROG Strix RTX 4080 OC features the same “Vented Exoskeleton” cooling solution that made the RTX 4090 ROG Strix stand out as the most premium custom-design, which is among the largest and heavies air-cooling solutions out there. The card offers factory overclocked speeds of 2.62 GHz compared to 2.50 GHz reference, and all of the premium aesthetic and functional features as the RTX 4090 ROG Strix, with a few handy inclusions such as case fan headers and dual-BIOS.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Market Segment Analysis
  Price Cores ROPs Core

Clock
Boost

Clock
Memory

Clock
GPU Transistors Memory
RTX 2080 $380 2944 64 1515 MHz 1710 MHz 1750 MHz TU104 13600M 8 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit
RTX 3060 Ti $410 4864 80 1410 MHz 1665 MHz 1750 MHz GA104 17400M 8 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit
RX 6700 XT $360

2560 64 2424 MHz 2581 MHz 2000 MHz Navi 22 17200M 12 GB, GDDR6, 192-bit
RX 6750 XT $470

2560 64 2495 MHz 2600 MHz 2250 MHz Navi 22 17200M 12 GB, GDDR6, 192-bit
RTX 2080 Ti $600 4352 88 1350 MHz 1545 MHz 1750 MHz TU102 18600M 11 GB, GDDR6, 352-bit
RTX 3070 $500 5888 96 1500 MHz 1725 MHz 1750 MHz GA104 17400M 8 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit
RTX 3070 Ti $600 6144 96 1575 MHz 1770 MHz 1188 MHz GA104 17400M 8 GB, GDDR6X, 256-bit
RX 6800 $580 3840 96 1815 MHz 2105 MHz 2000 MHz Navi 21 26800M 16 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit
RX 6800 XT $530 4608 128 2015 MHz 2250 MHz 2000 MHz Navi 21 26800M 16 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit
RTX 3080 $660 8704 96 1440 MHz 1710 MHz 1188 MHz GA102 28000M 10 GB, GDDR6X, 320-bit
RTX 3080 Ti $950 10240 112 1365 MHz 1665 MHz 1188 MHz GA102 28000M 12 GB, GDDR6X, 384-bit
RX 6900 XT $650 5120 128 2015 MHz 2250 MHz 2000 MHz Navi 21 26800M 16 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit
RX 6950 XT $800 5120 128 2100 MHz 2310 MHz 2250 MHz Navi 21 26800M 16 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit
RTX 3090 $900 10496 112 1395 MHz 1695 MHz 1219 MHz GA102 28000M 24 GB, GDDR6X, 384-bit
RX 7900 XT $900 5376 192 2000 MHz 2400 MHz 2500 MHz Navi 31 58000M 20 GB, GDDR6, 320-bit
RTX 3090 Ti $1400 10752 112 1560 MHz 1950 MHz 1313 MHz GA102 28000M 24 GB, GDDR6X, 384-bit
RX 7900 XTX $1000 6144 192 2300 MHz 2505 MHz 2500 MHz Navi 31 58000M 24 GB, GDDR6, 384-bit
RTX 4080 $1200 9728 112 2205 MHz 2505 MHz 1400 MHz AD103 45900M 16 GB, GDDR6X, 256-bit
ASUS RTX 4080

STRIX OC
$1450 9728 112 2205 MHz 2625 MHz 1400 MHz AD103 45900M 16 GB, GDDR6X, 256-bit
RTX 4090 $2400 16384 176 2235 MHz 2520 MHz 1313 MHz AD102 76300M 24 GB, GDDR6X, 384-bit
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