Gainward GeForce RTX 4080

Gainward's RTX 4080 Phoenix GS comes overclocked out of the box, to a rated boost clock of 2610 MHz, which is a 105 MHz increase over the NVIDIA FE speeds, or 30 MHz lower than Gainward's Phantom GS, which really doesn't make much of a difference. Averaged over all the 25 games in our GPU test suite at 4K resolution, we find the Gainward RTX 4080 Phoenix to be 16% faster than the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti—last generation's $2000 flagship card—very impressive. Compared to the GeForce RTX 3080, the gen-over-gen performance uplift is a a massive 50%. The current-gen flagship, the RTX 4090 is an impressive 25% faster though. AMD's new Radeon RX 7900 XTX roughly matches the Gainward card, the RX 7900 XT is 15% slower.

Gainward's RTX 4080 Phantom GS comes overclocked out of the box, to a rated boost clock of 2640 MHz, which is a 135 MHz increase over the NVIDIA FE speeds. Averaged over all the 25 games in our GPU test suite at 4K resolution we find the Gainward RTX 4080 to be 19% faster than the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti—last generation's $2000 flagship card—very impressive. Compared to the GeForce RTX 3080, the gen-over-gen performance uplift is a a massive 54%. Compared to the RTX 2080 from two generations ago, the RTX 4080 is 2.5x as fast! The recently-launched RTX 4090 is another 23% faster yet. AMD's most high-performance offering, the Radeon RX 6950 XT is 25% behind the RTX 4080, the RX 6900 XT is 30% slower. AMD has announced the Radeon RX 7900 XT and XTX a few weeks ago. While we don't have our own performance numbers yet, it is expected that the RX 7900 XTX's rasterization performance ends up somewhere between the RTX 4080 and the RTX 4090—so things will stay interesting in that segment.