Asus GeForce RTX 4080 TUF

Powerful, oversized, top-of-the-line 2023 gaming graphics card from Asus, based on the advanced NVIDIA Ada Lovelace microarchitecture (5nm, 2022). It occupies one of the leading positions in the “four thousandth” line of NVIDIA video cards, in terms of pure power it is second only to the flagship RTX 4090 video card with 24 GB of video memory. The manufacturer is positioning itself as a product of the upper price category, aimed at use as part of elite gaming systems with top-end Intel/AMD processors, powerful power supplies, and high-end 2K/4K monitors.

Ideal for 3D workstations, 3D graphics, AI and big data, and content creation and editing. The role of the brain of the video accelerator is played by the new AD103 chip with 9728 CUDA cores and a 16 GB GDDR6X memory buffer with a bandwidth of 720 GB / s. The frequency of the GPU is 2535 MHz, the memory is 23000 MHz. Depending on the selected resolution, the pure gaming performance of the RTX 4080 outperforms its predecessor RTX 3080 by 25-30%, delivering 50-60 FPS in Hogwarts Legacy, Cyberpunk 2077 and A Plague Tale: Requiem (4K resolution, high graphics settings).

At the same time, the RTX 4080 is equipped with RT and next-generation tensor cores, the capabilities of which are not available to NVIDIA video accelerators of previous generations. In particular, the DLSS 3.0 system was taught to process new types of data, so that the rendering of frames by AI hands now looks more accurate and natural, and the system itself works more efficiently, which is especially noticeable when playing in 4K.

This modification belongs to the models of the popular Asus The Ultimate Force line, whose representatives are subjected to lengthy factory testing, which guarantees the absence of factory defects and performance under heavy gaming load. From the reference sample NVIDIA RTX 4070 differs in appearance and cooling system. A metal heatsink with heatpipes and three Axial-tech fans provide effective cooling, while the minimalistic design with Asus Aura Sync backlighting gives the graphics card a stylish look. The printed circuit board has a length of almost 35 cm, and the video card itself occupies 3.7 motherboard slots, so the manufacturer recommends installing it exclusively in full-format assemblies with a Mid Tower case, an ATX motherboard and a power supply unit with a capacity of at least 750 W.