Gigabyte GeForce RTX 4080 AORUS MASTER 16GB (GV-N4080AORUS M-16GD)

The 2023 high performance pre-top gaming graphics card is designed for high-end gaming PCs equipped with 2K and 4K resolution monitors. It is also great for medium-powered workstations focused on 3D graphics, machine learning, neural networks and rendering. Part of the Gigabyte Aorus lineup featuring sleek design and outstanding gaming performance. Unlike the Gigabyte Gaming series GPUs, which are designed in the “it goes like this” style, the Aorus models look catchy and extravagant, and begs for an open case with an abundance of backlighting.

The stylish black and silver casing is pierced by thin LEDs that are woven into the Aorus logo, fan blades are decorated with addressable LEDs, and a small LCD monitor is located at the end of the card. You can display temperature, frequency and other information about the video card on it, hang some kind of picture or loop a gif. In addition, the power converter and the WINDFORCE cooling system have undergone refinement.

It includes three 110mm Bionic Fan Tech alternating rotation fans, a large evaporation chamber that is adjacent directly to the graphics chip, a Screen cooling system, and 12 composite copper heatpipes. All this goodness provides highly efficient heat dissipation without unnecessary noise, dust and dirt, even under significant load. The high performance of the Gigabyte GeForce RTX 4080 AORUS MASTER 16GB is provided by the AD 103 chip (5 nm, Ada Lovelace) with 7680 stream processors, factory overclocked to 2550 MHz and 16 GB of GDDR6X video memory (256-bit bus).

Like all GeFore RTX series graphics cards, it supports RTX hardware lighting processing and DLSS artificial scaling. The fourth generation uses next-level support cores that provide better and more efficient image enhancement algorithms and are not supported by previous versions of NVIDIA graphics cards. In terms of pure performance, the RTX 4080 outperforms its predecessor RTX 3080 by 20-25% depending on the specific game, resolution, and graphics settings. According to the tests, it will easily cope with any 2K and maximum graphics settings, and is also quite suitable for 4K resolution with reduced graphics and activated DLSS.