NVIDIA
GeForce RTX 4080
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Overview
The GeForce RTX 4080 is NVIDIA's high-end Ada Lovelace graphics card, launched in November 2022 as the second-tier option in the RTX 4000 lineup, sitting below the flagship RTX 4090. It succeeded the RTX 3080 Ti and offered a substantial generational leap in performance and efficiency.
The RTX 4080 is equipped with 16GB of GDDR6X memory on a 256-bit bus, backed by Ada Lovelace's third-generation RT cores and fourth-generation Tensor cores. It supports DLSS 3 with Frame Generation — a feature exclusive to Ada Lovelace at launch — along with hardware AV1 encoding. The card draws up to 320W, placing it firmly in the high-performance tier in terms of power requirements.
Targeted at 4K gaming with ray tracing enabled and high-refresh-rate 1440p, the RTX 4080 suits enthusiast gamers and professionals who need strong GPU compute alongside top-tier gaming performance. Buyers who found the RTX 4090's pricing out of reach while still wanting high-end Ada capabilities are its primary audience.
Technical Specifications
Architecture & Cores
- Architecture
- Ada Lovelace
- Process Node
- TSMC 4N
- CUDA Cores
- 9,728
- RT Cores
- 76
- Tensor Cores
- 304
Clock Speeds
- Base Clock
- 2,205 MHz
- Boost Clock
- 2,505 MHz
Memory
- VRAM Capacity
- 16 GB
- Memory Type
- GDDR6X
- Memory Bus
- 256-bit
- Memory Speed
- 22.4 Gbps
- Bandwidth
- 716.8 GB/s
Connectivity & Power
- Interface
- PCIe 4.0 x16
- TDP
- 320 W
- Power Connectors
- 1x 16-pin
- Released
- Sep 20, 2022
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