13 specifications

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER

On paper, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER has more shading units. Specifications describe what each card is designed to do; how much of that either one holds under continuous load is a separate question.

10 specifications · 3 with a higher side

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080

NVIDIA · GeForce RTX 40 · Desktop

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER

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Compute

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

Shading units

9,728

10,240

Base clock

2210 MHz

2290 MHz

Boost clock

2510 MHz

2550 MHz

Memory

16 GB

Memory type

GDDR6X

Memory bus

256-bit

Power and platform

TDP

320 W

Process

Not verified

Launched

2022-11-16

2024-01-31

A check marks the higher figure only on rows where higher is unambiguously better. Rows without one are not ties; they are specifications where “better” has no meaning.

Reading the table

What the difference means.

2 years apart

The RTX 4080 SUPER (Ada Lovelace, 2024) is 2 years newer than the RTX 4080 (Ada Lovelace, 2022). A newer architecture brings more than speed: newer video encoders and decoders, newer upscaling and frame generation, and a longer run of driver updates ahead of it.

Video memory

Both carry 16 GB, so neither has the advantage where memory is the limit: high resolutions, heavy textures and local AI models fill both at the same point.

Shading units

The RTX 4080 SUPER has 10,240 shading units against 9,728, 5 percent more of the same kind of core. Within one architecture that is the clearest single guide to how much more work the chip can do, provided it is given the power and cooling to use them.

Board power

Both are rated at 320 W, so they ask the same of a case and a power supply.

What no table says

How much of its speed a graphics card keeps after the first minute depends on the cooling and the power limit of the machine it is in. If you own one of these, measure it: the test is free and runs in this browser.

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Questions

Is the RTX 4080 better than the RTX 4080 SUPER?: On the specifications they are closely matched. They share an architecture, so the table is a fair guide. Frame rates depend on the game and its settings, and how much speed either card keeps after ten minutes depends on its cooling, which is what a sustained test measures.
Do the RTX 4080 and the RTX 4080 SUPER have the same features?: Yes. Both are Ada Lovelace designs from NVIDIA, so they share the same generation of video encoders and decoders, upscaling and driver support. What separates them is in the table: how much of the chip each one has, and how much power it is given.

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Every figure on this table is a design target. None of it is a measurement.

Nothing above describes how a graphics card behaves twenty minutes into a sustained workload, which is where two chips with nearly identical specifications routinely diverge. A boost clock is a ceiling the vendor permits, not a rate the chip sustains, and whether it holds depends on the cooling, the case, the power profile and the room. None of those appear on a specification sheet.

We deliberately do not reduce these figures to a single score. A composite invented from specifications would look authoritative and measure nothing, and choosing the weights would be choosing the winner.

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