Nvidia RTX 4080 Graphics Card Review

3DMark Timespy Extreme

Time Spy Extreme is a new 4K DirectX 12 benchmark test, available in 3DMark Advanced and Professional Editions. You don’t need a 4K monitor to run it, but you will need a GPU with at least 4 GB of dedicated memory. With its 4K Ultra HD rendering resolution, Time Spy Extreme is an ideal benchmark test for the latest high-end graphics cards. The CPU test has been redesigned to let processors with 8 or more cores perform to their full potential

3DMark is available on Steam here.

So starting things off with synthetic benchmarks and in Timespy Extreme, we straight away see an uplift in performance from the 3080 Ti of 27%, though more interestingly, we see a 16% uplift in the performance compared to the 3090 Ti, so already we’re off to a flying start for a card that is launching $800 cheaper than the 3090 Ti launched for.

3DMark Port Royal

3DMark Port Royal is the world’s first real-time ray tracing benchmark for gamers. It shows you how well your PC handles ray-tracing effects in real time. Use Port Royal to benchmark graphics cards that support Microsoft DirectX Raytracing. Compare Port Royal benchmark scores to see how overclocking affects ray-tracing performance. Find your PC’s performance limits with custom benchmark settings and detailed hardware monitoring charts.

3DMark is available on Steam here.

Port Royal gives us an early indication as to what the newest generation of RT cores can do, with a 30% increase in performance over the 3080 Ti, and a smaller, yet still very impressive leap of 17% over the 3090 Ti.

PugetBench for Davinci

A benchmark for both CPU and GPU performance that is a great basis for comparing the video and graphics editing capabilities of any system.

Available now on Puget.

Now, not everyone is looking to buy an RTX 4080 for the sake of gaming, so looking at PugetBench for Davinci Resolve which is something important to us as it’s what we use to render our videos and we can straight away see an uplift in performance of around 7% over the last generation Ampere flagship 3090 and 3090 Ti cards.