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

The top 2023 Palit GameRock gaming graphics card combines elegant design with outstanding performance. Part of the Palit GameRock series, featuring stylish looks and high gaming performance. With 16 GB of fast 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 an unusual protective casing with a front panel decorated with artificial rhinestones with Palit ONE TWO SYNC addressable illumination.

Unlike its counterparts in the series with a multi-colored casing and rhinestones, this modification is completely painted black and is best suited for strict monochromatic cases with a viewing window a la Fractal Design Define R6 and Be Quiet Pure Base 500. Palit GeForce RTX 4080 GameRock OmniBlack is based on AD103 graphics processor (9728 stream processors, frequency 2505 MHz).

Like all brothers in the Ada Lovelace family, it gives the user access to all NVIDIA's advanced developments in the field of graphic processing. First of all, these are updated cores for hardware ray tracing and a fundamentally new generation of tensor cores with support for 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 couple of existing frames, thereby increasing the average number of frames per second and making the gameplay smoother.

In terms of pure performance, the RTX 4080 can equally well be used for games at higher resolutions. It feels right at home in 2K, delivering under a hundred frames per second in almost any modern blockbuster on high or max graphics settings. In 4K, you will have to use DLSS and reduce the graphics, but in general the flight is normal. Like all fellows in the GameRock series, the video card turned out to be massive (length 33 cm, height 3.5 slots) and gluttonous (340 W), so the best shelter for it would be a full-size case with a productive ATX motherboard and a power supply unit with a capacity of at least 850 W.