Nvidia RTX 4080 Graphics Card Review
Peter Donnell / 2 years ago
Gigabyte Gaming RTX 4080 OC
Moving onto the Gigabyte Gaming OC and if you checked out the content we already did on the RTX 4090 Gaming OC, then this will look identical.
Much like NVIDIA, Gigabyte has opted to use the exact same cooler for the 4080 and that’s not necessarily a bad thing. On our 4090 coverage, it did well compared to the competition in both temperatures and acoustics, and generally doesn’t demand a huge premium over a reference priced model so I’m expecting much of the same on the 4080.
For those of you unaware of what this iteration of Gaming OC looks like, much like other 40 series cards, it’s big, bold and pretty decent looking. I’ve been a big fan of the Gaming OC lineup for quite a few years, as it’s always a nice balance between value, features and performance.
It is, admittedly, one of the simpler looking cards that we’re looking at today, which does mean it’s likely to match your system pretty well, and based on the chatter I heard with the 4090, it was one of the more popular SKUs to be snapped up by gamers.
It’s large, in fact, much larger than the Founders from NVIDIA, coming in at 342mm long, 150mm wide and 75mm thick, so while it takes up two slots in terms of the physical IO, it’s actually larger than 3 slots due to the cooler.
It’s a fair bit lighter than the FE, weighing in at 2285 grams which is exactly the same as the 4090 Gaming OC as expected, and due to the size and weight, it comes with a support bracket to alleviate any sagging of the card.
Cooler-wise, Gigabyte are using the same vapour chamber design that they used on the RTX 4090 Gaming OC, which isn’t a bad thing and also includes a LOT of thermal pads to make contact with the memory and phases for the very best heat dissipation.
Due to it being a custom model and being an OC card, it does demand a bit of a premium, where we’ve seen the leaked Micro Center pricing coming in at $1269 in the US, and no official word on UK pricing, but you’d be expecting to likely pay around £1349 based on previous releases and how they compare.
