NVIDIA - GeForce RTX 4080 16GB GDDR6X Graphics Card - Titanium/Black

The card is enormous, heavy, and power hungry. I have it paired with a 13700k and I think my 850 watt power supply is the bare minimum to keep those two fed. Also, it comes with an adapter but make sure your power supply has three 8 pin PCIe connectors or a Gen 5 connector. Also, in regards to its weight, probably either mount it vertically if your case allows or get something to prevent sag. The blower style fans are pretty quiet and keep the card cool in my Lian Li Lancool 216. Performance over my EVGA 3080 (RIP EVGA) is significant in both games and video rendering. The biggest con is the price. I needed a second machine with some guts to it but I probably could have compromised. By buying it, I'm validating NVIDIA's bonkers new pricing scheme. Hopefully extra competition will knock some sense into them.

Despite the price I got this. I was actually waiting for the Noctua version but it's almost the same price as the 4090! Comes in a dedicated and sealed shipping box. No way it could be tampered with without that seal being broken. That box was shipped direct from the factory to a ware house then shipped to a BestBuy store that you pickup from. In that box will be a heavy duty and pristine 4080 box. I went with the 4080 because I also do a lot of AI work and needed the 16GB of VRAM. My 4080 fans don't even go on when playing Overwatch 2 at 1440p at max settings. Ambient temp is 22C and card is at 41C. Core i7-10700 System with 2 27" 1440p monitors pull 250watts per my UPS when on Overwatch 2 at max settings. Then again I set my 4 case fans at max when gaming. If the ambient temp is low enough I can keep the fans at low. My pictures show it with a EZDIY-FAB 12VHPWR 12+4 Pin Angle Connector Power Adapter (the reverse version) and it hovers over the heatsinks and gives good clearance. RE: GPU sag Since the FE is a shorter card than 3 fan cards I didn't notice any noticeable sag but I put a cheap bracket and support just in case. Who couldn't use a little support?

I made the ‘slight’ performance jump from my 3090 FE because I needed a smaller graphics card for the case I was building in. The 3090 FE is roughly 31mm longer than the 4080 FE which made case selection difficult for the 3090. I mostly play Call of Duty games @ 1440p Ultrawide with maxed out settings, RT & DLSS disabled. My FPS in MW2 was about 90 FPS with the 3090 and after upgrading to the 4080 my fps went to 170fps. The increase in benchmark scores was also significantly higher than the 3090. After watching all the Youtuber review and benchmarks I was under the assumption that the 4080 wouldn’t be worth the upgrade but that couldn’t be further from the truth. Higher FPS in games and higher benchmarks were also backed up with lower overall temps (about 20C+ less per sensor compared to the 3090 FE) and much less power total consumption (450W vs 375W). I am more than happy with the upgrade but I am a little worried that the drop from 24GB of VRAM to 16GB may affect future performance.