INNO3D RTX 4080 Super X3 Graphics Card Review

A Closer Look

INNO3D make great-looking graphics cards, and while I loved their older cards from years ago that looked utterly bonkers with wild colours and lots of crazy fan configurations, I think it’s safe to say they have matured quite a bit, and their new designs are their best yet.

The new RTX 4080 Super X3 follows a similar logic to the Nvidia Founders Editions, in that they’ve dropped any bright colours or highlights and gone for a more toned-down aesthetic with a complete lack of RGB. This means that you could put this in an office computer or a high-end gaming rig, and it would look right in either.

The two-tone angled black and brushed metal look is stunning, more like they got an architect to design it rather than a gamer, but it works very well. However, what does strike me is that it’s an awfully big graphics card, and with three 100mm fans on the front of it, that’s hardly surprising.

What does catch my attention, however, is why it looks so big. It’s a slimmer card, coming in at just 2-slots when many RTX 4080s are triple slot cards INNO3D have effectively pancaked the card flat, making it slimmer, but much wider and a bit longer as a result.

The slim design does look fantastic from the side profile though, and as you can see, there’s the new 12VHPWR connector tucked into the middle of the card.

At the rear, there are four display connections, with three DisplayPort and a single HDMI port. Plus, you can see just how much that wider shroud extends beyond the PCI bracket! Again though, a wider card, and bigger fans, seem like a good trade-off to me!

At the back, there’s a large metal backplate, which provides added durability and cooling to the card, but there’s also a huge section of ventilation towards the rear too.

This vent allows the rearmost fan and part of the middle fan to blow air directly through the GPU, which should offer significant improvements to the cooling efficiency.

With the shroud removed, you can see there are a significant number of capacitors on the PCB, more than I saw on the Founders Edition, and a range of good-quality black chokes too.

There are eight 2GB memory ICs, giving the card a total of 16GB GDDR6X VRAM.

The back of the PCB is very clean, with some very robust-looking solder points, everything just looks robust and heavily built, which is always a good sign.

The heatsink is massive, and while it may be slimmer, it more than makes up for it with surface area, and seven heatpipes run through both sides of the heatsink and all pass right over the GPU and power delivery hardware, which has a massive contact plate to ensure both the GPU and VRAM are directly cooled.