Palit GeForce RTX 4080 GameRock OmniBlack (NED4080019T2-1030Q)

The top-tier gaming graphics card Palit GameRock 2023 combines elegant design with outstanding performance. It is part of the Palit GameRock series, known for its stylish appearance and high gaming performance. With 16 GB of high-speed GDDR6X memory (256-bit bus), it can be successfully used for 3D modeling, video rendering, and other resource-intensive tasks that require a powerful GPU.

It attracts attention with its unique protective shroud featuring a front panel adorned with artificial rhinestones and Palit ONE TWO SYNC addressable lighting. Unlike its series counterparts with colorful shrouds and rhinestones, this modification is entirely painted black, making it ideal for sleek monochrome cases with a viewing window, such as Fractal Design Define R6 and Be Quiet Pure Base 500.

The Palit GeForce RTX 4080 GameRock OmniBlack is based on the AD103 graphics processor (9728 stream processors, 2505 MHz frequency). Like all its Ada Lovelace family members, it provides users access to all of NVIDIA's advanced developments in graphics processing. Primarily, these include updated cores for hardware ray tracing and a fundamentally new generation of tensor cores supporting the DLSS 3.0 supersampling system.

A key feature of DLSS 3 is the use of a specialized hardware engine, the Optical Flow Accelerator, which creates additional interpolated frames based on a pair of existing frames, thereby increasing the average frames per second and making gameplay smoother. In terms of pure performance, the RTX 4080 can be used for gaming at higher resolutions with equal success. In 2K, it feels right at home, delivering nearly a hundred frames per second in almost any modern blockbuster with high or maximum graphics settings.

In 4K, DLSS will need to be engaged and graphics settings lowered, but overall, the performance is satisfactory. Like all GameRock series counterparts, the graphics card is massive (33 cm in length, 3.5 slots in height) and power-hungry (340 W), so an optimal home for it would be a full-sized case with a high-performance ATX motherboard and a power supply unit of at least 850 W.