Introduction

ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER OC is the company’s second most premium custom design rendition of the RTX 4080 SUPER, positioned a notch below the ROG Strix RTX 4080 SUPER OC, which we’re also reviewing today. The TUF Gaming brand has seen a sensational evolution over the years for ASUS. It started out as a niche brand focusing on products with server grade high-endurance components; to one that was relegated to mainstream or mid-range motherboards and graphics cards; but since the RTX 30-series Ampere, has evolved into a well respected graphics card brand extension, thanks to a pivot towards giving gamers enthusiast-class cooling and industrial looks at attractive prices. ASUS has two TUF Gaming products based on the RTX 4080 SUPER, the baseline TUF Gaming sticks to reference clock speeds, and can be had at MSRP pricing, but the card we’re reviewing today is the TUF Gaming OC, which comes with a factory overclock to boot, but at a premium.

The new GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER tops off the company’s mid-lifecycle refresh for the upper end of its RTX 40-series product stack. It’s targeted at the same class of gamers in the market for a GPU such as the original RTX 4080, or the competing AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX. Since the AMD flagship poses no competitive threat to the RTX 4090; NVIDIA probably didn’t feel the need to tap into the larger AD102 silicon to carve out the RTX 4080 SUPER, but instead uses the full AD103 that the RTX 4080 didn’t max out; increases clock speeds by a tiny bit; and most importantly, lowers the MSRP by 20%. Yes, the RTX 4080 SUPER starts at $1,000, compared to the $1,200 MSRP of the original RTX 4080. This allows NVIDIA to better compete with the RX 7900 XTX that can be frequently seen selling for around $900.

With the AD103 silicon maxed out, the RTX 4080 SUPER gets 10,240 CUDA cores, 320 Tensor cores, 80 RT cores, 320 TMUs, and the chip’s full complement of 112 ROPs. The GPU clocks are slightly increased to 2550 MHz boost, from 2505 MHz on the RTX 4080, which the TUF Gaming OC dials up to 2610 MHz. The memory configuration remains the same—16 GB of GDDR6X memory across a 256-bit memory bus; with the memory speed being increased to 23 Gbps from 22.4 Gbps on the RTX 4080. The total graphics power (TGP) value is unchanged from 320 W. The underlying graphics architecture is unchanged, this is still Ada Lovelace, with its new CUDA cores that support shader execution reordering that speeds up ray tracing workloads; 3rd generation RT cores that feature displaced micro-meshes that allow an increase in complexity of ray traced objects, and the optical flow accelerator that enables DLSS 3 Frame Generation.

The ASUS TUF Gaming RTX 4080 SUPER OC features the same heavy variant of the TUF Gaming cooling solution that ASUS features on its RTX 4090 product, which should give this cooler plenty of headroom to keep the noise and thermals low. The card offers a factory overclock of 2610 MHz as we mentioned, on its default OC BIOS. You can switch to a secondary Silent BIOS that prioritizes low fan noise above all, at reference clock speeds. ASUS is pricing the RTX 4080 SUPER TUF Gaming OC at $1,100, a 10% premium over the NVIDIA baseline.