Introduction

PNY GeForce RTX 4080 Super Verto is the company’s affordable, MSRP custom design graphics card designed for those wanting an RTX 4080 Super at close to reference specs. The new GeForce RTX 4080 Super is where the company’s January 2024 mid-lifecycle refresh of the upper end of the GeForce RTX 40-series product stack. This GPU is aimed at those wanting uncompromising AAA gameplay at 4K Ultra HD resolution, with maxed out settings; including ray tracing. The Super refresh story so far has been that of providing more performance at given price points—the RTX 4070 Super got a significant 21% increase in shaders, replacing the RTX 4070 from its $600 price point. The RTX 4070 Ti Super got a significant memory upgrade to 16 GB and a 10% more shaders, replacing the RTX 4070 Ti from $800. NVIDIA’s proposition is slightly different with the new RTX 4080 Super. You get 5% more shaders than the RTX 4080 and slightly increased clock speeds; but at a 20% lower MSRP than the RTX 4080, which had launched at $1,200. You will find cards such as the PNY Verto we’re reviewing here, at, or close to this MSRP; while premium overclocked cards will sell for $100-200 more; or around the price of the original RTX 4080. If you recall, premium overclocked RTX 4080 were found treading close to the $1,500-mark.

The GeForce RTX 4080 Super is designed by NVIDIA to consolidate at the $1,000 price-point, as the RTX 4080 was facing competition from the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX that can sometimes be seen listed around the $900 mark. Since there’s no AMD Radeon SKU above this, and there exists a vast gap between these SKUs and the flagship RTX 4090, there was really no need for NVIDIA to fatten the specs sheet by tapping into the larger AD102 silicon with its wider memory bus, and drive up costs. Instead, the RTX 4080 Super tries to squeeze the most out of the AD103, by enabling all 80 SM physically present on the silicon, and dialing up the clock speeds.

With all 80 SM on the AD103 silicon enabled, the RTX 4080 Super gets an impressive 10,240 CUDA cores, 320 Tensor cores, 80 RT cores, and 320 TMUs. It also gets all 112 ROPs present on the silicon, as well as the full 64 MB of L2 cache. The memory sub-system is largely unchanged from the RTX 4080, with 16 GB of GDDR6X memory across the 256-bit memory bus; but the speeds are a touch increased—23 Gbps vs. 22.4 Gbps. Interestingly, NVIDIA stuck to 320 W as the total graphics power (TGP), the de facto power limit of the card. Again, the biggest “feature” of the RTX 4080 Super remains its 20% lower price than the RTX 4080.

The PNY GeForce RTX 4080 Super Verto comes with a tiny factory overclock of 2565 MHz boost, over the 2550 MHz reference, which is never unwelcome at MSRP pricing. It features a solid, no-frills appearance for its XLR8 Verto cooling solution, and is really meant for those buying into the RTX 4080 Super and not needing the bells and whistles of premium custom design cards. PNY is pricing the card at the $1,000 MSRP.