Nvidia RTX 4080 Graphics Card Review

Overall Game Average FPS

Testing a variety of games allows you to see how a particular piece of hardware performs in that title, but with the ability to look at overall game averages and how they perform across all titles, we can extrapolate the positioning of that hardware compared to similar hardware on the market.

So as always, lots of data that we’ve been through, and some really interesting points, namely in the fact that even at 1440p, our 12900K saw some huge bottlenecks, and this is where a huge opportunity could open up for AMD’s rumoured 7000 series 3D Cache processors coming in the near future.

That aside, the RTX 4080 is clearly aimed at 4K gamers and the performance gains at 4K were really clear to see, not only over the 3080 Ti but in most cases, over the 3090 Ti and anything that the competition had to offer.

What I found the most interesting, is that a few titles really saw the gap narrow between the 4080 and 6950XT, which opens up more questions about the future, and what could be coming to the table from the red team with the 7900 series and that’s something we’ll definitely look at in the future.

For now, with individual titles to one side, another way to look at performance is to look at a 15-game average on all of the GPUs featured, and at 1080p, even with a CPU bottleneck, the RTX 4080 still manages to sit 13% faster than the 3080 Ti and 5% ahead of the 6950 XT but with restricted performance, while it’s nice to see how things compare, it’s a bit unfair regardless.

As we move up to 1440p, where a CPU bottleneck is still pretty evident in a lot of titles we do see the gap increase between the 3080 Ti and RTX 4080, now sitting 23% ahead of the Ampere based card. The lead over the 6950 XT also increased dramatically, now being separated by 15% at 1440p.

Then at 4K, we see the real potential of the RTX 4080 which increases its lead over the 3080 Ti, now to a whopping 26%. It also now sits 15% faster than the 3090 Ti in the averages of all 15 titles tested and 23% over the very best offering that AMD has right now.