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Recently at the GeForce Beyond Event, Nvidia announced the next-gen RTX 4080 and RTX 4090 cards. They further said that RTX 4080 would be released in two variants. Although both the cards will feature all next-gen features, the two variants will differ in memory sizes.
It's time to look at Nvidia's next-gen Lovelace architecture which will power the RTX 4080 GPUs and find out what either variant of RTX 4080 features. This may help gamers in their choice of cards in near future.
What specifications does the RTX 4080 pack?
As mentioned before, RTX 4080 will come in two variants. One will have 12 GB GDDR6X memory and the other will have 16 GB GDDR6X memory. The 16 GB variant will pack 9,728 CUDA Cores and the 12 GB variant will pack 7680 CUDA Cores.
The 16 GB variant will have a boost clock of 2.51 GHz whereas the 12 GB variant will have a 2.61 GHz boost clock. Coming to the base clock, the 12 GB variant will have a 2.21 GHz base clock whereas the 16 GB variant will have a 2.31 GHz base clock. The 12GB card will have a memory interface width of 256 bits and the 16 GB variant will have a memory interface width of 192 bits.
The 16 GB variant will need a system power of 750W whereas the 12 GB variant will need a 700 W power system. Furthermore, the 16 GB and 12 GB variants feature Graphics Card power of 320W and 285W respectively.
Coming to similarities, both variants will feature the 3rd generation Ray Tracing Cores, 4th generation Tensor Cores, Ada Lovelace Nvidia architecture, and the completely new Nvidia DLSS 3.
| GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB | GeForce RTX 4080 16 GB |
CUDA Cores | 9728 | 7680 |
Boost Clock | 2.51 | 2.61 |
Base Clock | 2.21 | 2.31 |
Standard Memory Config | 16 GB GDDR6X | 12 GB GDDR6X |
Memory Interface Width | 256-bit | 192-bit |
Ray Tracing Cores | 3rd Generation | 3rd Generation |
Tensor Cores | 4th Generation | 4th Generation |
NVIDIA Architecture | Ada Lovelace | Ada Lovelace |
NVIDIA DLSS | 3 | 3 |
Maximum Digital Resolution | 7680x4320 | 7680x4320 |
Graphics Card Power (W) | 320 W | 285 W |
Required System Power (W) (4) | 750 W | 700 W |
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How much will the RTX 4080 cost?
The RTX 3080 was launched on September 17, 2020, with a launch price of 700$. Due to the chip shortage in 2020, the price hike was extremely high, with scalpers selling it at double or triple the price.
Although now the price of RTX 4080 is Instead of the price hike, users were buying the cards at a scalped rate. This led to Nvidia increasing the price of the 40 series cards. So it is inevitable, gamers will get the 40 series cards at a price more than that of Nvidia's natural pricing.
The 4080 cards were released on 20th September 2022 in two variants. One is the 12 GB and the other is the 16 GB card. The 16 GB card will cost almost 1200$ and the 12 GB card will cost 900$.
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Expected Performance of the RTX 4080
Since the card is still not officially available, it is very hard to predict how the next-gen 40 series cards will perform. But for now, Nvidia gave a few details regarding how the card will perform on their official websites in a few games.
According to Nvidia, the Microsoft flight simulator will give twice the FPS of what RTX 3080 Ti gave in the Microsoft Flight Simulator and Warhammer and thrice of what was achieved in CD Projekt Red's Cyberpunk 2077.
The RTX 4090 performs twice what RTX 3080ti gave in Microsoft flight simulator and Warhammer and 4 times of RTX 3080ti in Cyberpunk 2077.
For now, it is better to wait for the card to release to find the actual benchmark in games. Still, users who want to get a true next-gen experience with the new 3rd gen ray tracing cores and DLSS 3.0, can go with the RTX 4080.
But for users new to gaming or just want the raytracing experience and were previously using a 16 series card can go with RTX 3080 when its price decline after the release of the 40 Series card.
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