Customer Ratings & Reviews

This card runs cool and quiet while delivering great performance. The only downside is the cost.

My goal was to build a PC for 4K gaming at 120FPS for my LG C2 OLED display. At first I considered getting the RTX 4090, but I figured it would be overkill. I decided to save $400 and get the RTX4080, and wow.. this thing does not disappoint. The Founder's Edition is super clean, and best of all it has a shorter cooler than the third-party cards. I believe it comes in at 304mm long, which worked well in my Fractal-Design North case with a front-mount AIO. I get that this card has a lot of hate behind it at this price point, but every card is overpriced right now, and this card eats up any game I throw at it, so I can't really complain. Cyberpunk 2077 in Overdrive mode runs great at 60FPS with FG and DLSS Balanced mode. And I can always scale down to push native 4k 120fps, but overdrive is like candy. Everything else either hits 120fps in native 4K, or hits 120fps with help from DLSS Quality/Balanced and FG when needed. Would buy again.

Used this in my first ever PC build and I wanted to go all out. Had a prebuilt before this with a 1660TI, and the difference is absurd. Online everywhere you see people saying not to buy the 4080 because it's price to performance is so bad and if you're gonna get a 40 series get a 4090. Most of those people are already on 30 series cards so it makes sense. For me it was definitely worth it, and I am very content with 1440p gaming, so getting a 4090 would be a huge waste of money as the difference between 4080 and 4090 is really only noticeable in 4k gaming, and their performance is so similar at any settings below 4k, so I saved myself $400 by choosing the 4080 instead as I plan on staying at 1440p gaming for a while. Not really a game this thing can't play maxed out with ray tracing ultra with no problems at all.

The only thing stopping this from getting 5 stars is the price tag. $1,199 is hardly affordable, so it feels like anyone even looking at the RTX 4080 should probably just save up the additional $400 for the RTX 4090 and go for broke — or melted…. I’ve purchased 2 and one of them had to be RMO’d due to connector issues it didn’t not melt but the pins wouldn’t seat correctly. That being said, it still is a great card that can handle most anything thrown at it, and do it quietly.

Wasn't my intent to upgrade this generation, but I purchased an ultrawide 1440p monitor and my 3080 10GB was getting pushed to it's limits or in some cases just crashing wth more intensive games. I wasn't expecting such a performance bump with the 4080, but I'm getting over 40-50% FPS consistently. While gaming it also runs almost 20 degrees cooler than my 3080, while drawing less power. It's an impressive card, and it's more of generational leap than the 20 series was to the 30 series. The card is also gigantic, so make sure you have the case to fit it. I'm also using a CableMod 12vhpwr cable, instead of the octopus adapter that's included. I agree with everyone when the price is pretty stupid, and this generation of cards is alienating PC gamers and making the hobby less accessible. The only redeeming thing was I was able to get 10% off the 4080, and sell my 3080 for a bit over $600 to make the price a little easier to stomach. I would not have minded getting a 4090, but I decided to save $400+ and whatever the cost of a new power supply would be. The 4090 FE seemingly does not exist either, and I would not be surprised if Nvidia is withholding 4090 stock to push 4080 sales.

I just want to say that I got extremely lucky in getting this card! I was randomly checking here to see if they had it in stock on Tuesday and there it was! I'm coming from the RTX 2060 so this is a huge upgrade for me. This card is pretty big so I have very little clearance between the GPU and my front facing fans in my Meshify C case. So be careful and check the measurements of your case before buying. As for the temps, it stays pretty cool and really quiet in idle performance since the fans don't spin unless it's in heavy usage. I know that the adapter is horrible so I ordered an alternative from CableMod which I recommend everyone to get anyways. I can't close my glass panel properly without squishing the adapter which would damage it so I have to leave it open a bit for now. Either way, this is a fantastic card even though the price is a bit high from the previous generation but it's worth it.

The card is huge! Fits in my case fine but make sure before buying. I was initially holding out for a 4090 but decided on this when I couldn’t find one for less than $2k. I game on a 49” Samsung ultra wide which is 2k and I’ve got to say, this card is fantastic. Hardest I pushed was maxing out Cyberpunk and I’m getting 85 fps. Average of all titles I checked was 150+. Pleasantly surprised!

I recently picked this up not too kong ago. It expectedly blew my mind when I did some benchmarms and tried some games, but I do also feel once in a whike NVIDIA should cut down on these prices because they're just getting absurd. Temps are great for a 4080 and a vertically mounted one at that, with a startup of 28⁰C and when I'm playing games on the highest settings even possible I still only get around 36⁰C. Overall great GPU but just consider if yoh really need all the power before picking one of these up. Build specs if any of you are curious: Intel i7-13700k CPU 64GB G.SKILL Trident Z Ram at DDR5 980 PRO x2 (2tb) SSD F120 RGB DUO Fans H9 Elite Case GIGABYTE Z790 AORUS ELITE AX Motherboard Corsaid RM1000x PSU Kraken 360 Elite (I bought the Non-RGB version and replaced the fans with F120 RGB DUOs)

Awesome card. I had an Rtx 3090. This 4080 runs cooler and uses less watts while doing more frames per second. I was trying to get a 4090 but now that I settled for the 4080 I realize this is probably best for me plus I don’t have to worry about it getting too hot and melting the connector

I Will admit, the complains against this card are fair (price per performance, especially when compared to the 4090.) Nonetheless, I am incredibly happy. I am fortunate enough to afford this card, I got it 10% and upgraded from my 3080. THIS CARD PERFORMS. FPS is off the charts, even at the highest graphic settings. I am happy.

I had a 6800XT and loved it. Ran cool, overclocked well and was very stable. I tried the 7900XTX Merc 310 and was sorely disappointed. It used upwards of 450 watts and ran at 75C+ under a gaming load. Not to mention the clocks were very finicky with different titles. It seemed like it was still in beta truly. So I decided to try this 4080 FE and man what a difference. The aesthetic is just beautiful. Even the box is impressive. I plugged it in, installed GeForce Experience and was up and running games perfectly within 30 minutes from unbox to playing. No driver finicking, no bios switching, it just works. Not to mention my AMD 5800X3D even runs better with this card... Very surprised. If you can find and afford a 4090 FE do it. If not this is the next best choice. Have had 0 issues and it runs everything on my Odyssey G9 just beautifully. One more note ... I don't know exactly why, but games just look better on Nvidia than AMD. I don't know exactly what it is, maybe the HDR, or the image processor with the AI, but it just looks better. I'm back to team green it seems.

Honestly a noticeable worthwhile 30% jump across the board in performance from my 3080FE and way more power efficient and effectively cooled. The VRAM on the 3080 got WAY too hot, even with the thermal pad mod. I paid around the same price that I had originally spent on my 3080 as well, so after reselling to a friend, the upgrade was a no-brainer for me. It is the best of the 40 series cards in my opinion, balancing stellar overall max settings and ray-traced performance, and power efficiency. I like it better than the 4090 purely due to the efficiency, and it runs anything like a beast. You will run into CPU, and other system bottlenecks before ever getting close to a GPU bottleneck with this card. It is a CHONKER though. I shoved it into my mid-sized tower with 2mm of clearance from my AIO radiator.

I mean you can't beat the performance, but that price really hurts... Also the thing is a half inch thicker than the 3090 and the power cable sticks straight out instead of at an angle, barely fit in my gigantic case Lian-Li PC-O11

The card gets a lot of flack for its price point. Comparing to the 3080 FE this is a much better card, maybe not worth the price difference, but the noise level alone is enough to make a big difference.

Runs everything smooth and quiet on high settings. I usually play at 1440p at 144hz and this 4080 does not drop any frames paired with my Intel 13th gen CPU. I wasn’t going to buy a 4k monitor because they are so expensive so thats why I went with the 4080 over the 4090. The 4080 can run games at 4k at 120fps like Modern Warfare 3 no problem, games like Starfield and Alan Wake 2 can run 4k at 60fps but I prefer to go with 1440p and it easily gets over 100fps. Also I do not have any coil whine like other brands.

My only complaint is I wish it was a little bit cheaper I think it should cost around a thousand bucks. I got the 4080 so i could kept my same setup I had with the 3070 TI. 850 w gold power supply with an i7 12000k. I wanted the 4090 but none are available plus I would have had to upgrade my power supply and my CPU. It's just not worth it. I got this card for MSRP and when I tell you it is so cool. my 3070 TI ran at about 85° c this doesn't get over 64.5° c

Everything it needs to be and more, great card and great performance. It's very quiet and runs very cool. If you have the money and it's in stock, pull the trigger and thank me later

Big upgrade from a rtx 2080 super been wanting upgrade ever since 30 series came out but i kind of knew rtx 40 series would come since it was 2 years and it’s definitely a hugeeee jump especially from 12 to a whopping 16gb vram and performs more than a 3090 almost 2x more definitely a good gpu for a fps if you want to use it as fps competitive game definitely hits the 360 fps on 1080p and the heatsink is so good i used cyberpunk on rtx mode and high settings and dont even hit 50 degrees if you have a 20 series card or a 3070 or 3060 this is definitely a good graphics card price is little bit high but its really good :)

I bought this to take advantage of the new gen of TVs; A bit of over kill for a HTPC. But why not lol...I am not disappointed that is for sure. The card did run hot inside my small HTPC case, so I decided to water cool this graphics card. Even with an ATX 3.0 PSU, I went with an angle adaptor to relieve the strain on the power connector. This card makes the whole pc run much faster and the games in 4k are amazing.

I love it, great upgrade for anything under a 3080 i would say. Runs cooler and quieter than my evga 3080 ftw3. Looks nice and compliments my lian li o11d evo’s size.