MSI GeForce RTX 4080 Suprim X Review

Source: Tech Power Up added 18th Nov 2022

Introduction

MSI GeForce RTX 4080 SUPRIM X represents the very best in custom-design graphics cards from MSI. The company created the SUPRIM line of graphics cards to lead its product-stack with the highest-quality materials, meeting its best industrial design. This is MSI’s attempt at beating the NVIDIA Founders Edition in aesthetics. The RTX 4080 SUPRIM X is the company’s fastest air-cooled RTX 4080 card, there will be a liquid-cooled RTX 4080 SUPRIM Liquid X in the lineup, too.

The GeForce RTX 4080 is designed to help NVIDIA consolidate in the high-end gaming graphics card segment, and has the same design goals as the RTX 4090—to give you a graphics card that can play any of the AAA game titles at 4K Ultra HD, with maxed out settings, and ray tracing added to the mix. The DLSS 3 frame-generation feature nearly doubles frame-rates, and should add a heap of future-proofing to this card.

The GeForce RTX 4080 is based on the new AD103 “Ada Lovelace” silicon, which is smaller than the massive AD102 on which the RTX 4090 is based, although larger than the AD104 on which performance-segment SKUs from the 70-series will be based, including the now-cancelled RTX 4080 12 GB, which was “unlaunched” due to branding problems.

The RTX 4080 is endowed with 9,728 CUDA cores across 76 streaming multiprocessors, 304 Tensor cores, 76 RT cores, and 112 ROPs. The card comes with 16 GB of memory, which is higher than the 10 GB or 12 GB that the RTX 3080 came with, but across a narrower 256-bit wide GDDR6X memory bus (done to reduce the number of memory chips to 8). The bandwidth shortfall is contained by using faster 22.4 Gbps memory chips, and deploying much larger on-die caches to speed up the memory sub-system.

The MSI RTX 4080 SUPRIM X features a rich-looking silvery, brushed-aluminium finish on both the cooler shroud and backplate, with a well-appointed RGB lighting setup that doesn’t shout too loudly. It also uses premium components and thermal interface materials on the PCB and cooling solution. This card also features the company’s highest grade of factory-overclocking for the RTX 4080, with the GPU running at 2.625 GHz, compared to 2.50 GHz reference. MSI is pricing the card at $1,380, which is surprisingly reasonable, considering the pricing of the six other custom-design cards we’re reviewing today.

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
MSI RTX 4080 Suprim X	$1380	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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