GALAX GEFORCE RTX 4080 SUPER Metal Master Graphics Card Review: A new gaming tool for 4K parties in one step

As the latest RTX 40 SUPER series graphics card to debut, how much improvement has it made this time? In addition to gaming, what is its professional productivity and AI performance? Today, let’s take a look at this first-release GALAXY GEFORCE RTX 4080 SUPER Metal Master graphics card.

First introduce this test platform:

Appearance design

The appearance of the GALAXY GEFORCE RTX 4080 SUPER Metal Master graphics card has a metallic hardcore mecha style feel at first glance, which is also the consistent design style of the Metal Master series. It has a square shape and uses an integrated die-cast aluminum alloy armor shell on the front. It is silver-white with CNC high-gloss edges and irregular textures. It has a strong visual impact and an online texture.

The graphics card fan adopts a strong contrasting black color, with 3 anti-frost fans with a diameter of 102mm and a thickness of 20mm, and a 3-stage structure with 11 black fan blades, which can effectively Reduce wind resistance, increase air volume, and support intelligent start and stop.

There is a large area of ​​hollow on one side of the graphics card, and you can see the internal heat dissipation fins, with the GEFORCE RTX and GALAX logos printed on the left and right respectively.

The brand new 12VHPWR power supply interface in the middle, with the power supply of some customized wires, only one wire can power the graphics card, making it more convenient to install.

You can clearly see the internal heat dissipation grille on the other side of the graphics card. It is officially called the new generation cold light star cooling system. It provides 4*Φ6mm 4*Φ8mm plated inside. The nickel composite heat pipe, large-area high-efficiency vapor chamber and fins work together with the surface 3 fans to greatly improve the heat dissipation performance.

The back panel of the graphics card uses aluminum alloy brushed metal technology. The left pattern and the right air outlet use the Metal Master Logo to create a clever symmetrical effect. GEFORCE RTX and The Metal Master graphic logo is arranged on the upper and lower edges of the middle, which is visually very regular.

The output interface is equipped with 3 DP1.4a interfaces and 1 HDMI2.1 interface, which are basically the standard configuration of current graphics cards.

In terms of accessories, GALAXY GEFORCE RTX 4080 SUPER Metal Master provides a 16pin to 3*8pin power supply adapter cable and a set of detachable design, metal graphics card bracket.

Core Analysis

GEFORCE RTX 4080 SUPER is also built based on the AD103 core, but its core specifications are quite terrifying. For example, it is equipped with 10,240 CUDA cores. Compared with the RTX 4080’s 9,728 CUDA cores, the number of cores has increased by 5.2%. It also has 52 Shader Core TFLOPS units and 121 RT Core TFLOPS, and graphics/game performance has been upgraded again. In addition, its 320 Tensor Cores and 836 AI TOPS will provide powerful AI computing power and DLSS performance.

In terms of memory specifications, the GEFORCE RTX 4080 SUPER is still 16GB GDDR6X, which is consistent with the RTX 4080. However, the 64MB L2 cache allows GEFORCE RTX 4080 SUPER to fully utilize the game performance at 4K resolution. In terms of GPU frequency, the base frequency is 2295MHz and the acceleration frequency is 2550MHz, which are 40MHz and 80MHz higher than the RTX 4080 respectively. Judging from the graphics card specifications and official positioning, GEFORCE RTX 4080 SUPER is a high-end graphics card positioned for 4K games and has powerful AI computing power.

Of course, GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER still uses the latest NVIDIA Ada architecture and is built based on TSMC 4N NVIDIA custom process, thus achieving a performance-power consumption ratio of up to 2 times. Streaming multiprocessors deliver 2x more throughput than previous generations. The DLSS 3 of the third-generation RT Cores can increase light tracing performance by 2 times. The fourth-generation Tensor Cores add a new FP8 engine with Tensor processing performance of up to 1.32 petaflops, and DLSS can increase performance by up to 4 times.

Theoretical Performance

Everyone knows that the power consumption of a graphics card with the number suffix 80 will not be too low. After all, it needs to be guaranteed for performance, so how is its temperature controlled? ? We might as well verify it by testing the donut roaster. After baking for 20 minutes, the GPU power consumption remained at about 320W, the core temperature was only about 66.4℃, and the memory temperature was only 68℃. At this time, the GPU frequency could still reach 2415MHz. It seems that the GALAXY GEFORCE RTX 4080 SUPER Metal Master graphics card The heat dissipation is very good, so you can use it with confidence.

In the 3D Mark TimeSpy stress test, the GALAXY GEFORCE RTX 4080 SUPER Metal Master graphics card also performed very stably, easily passing the test with a score of 99.6%, without any pressure. .

Next is the theoretical performance of the GPU. In the 3DMark TimeSpy Extreme DX12 test, the graphics card score of the GALAXY GEFORCE RTX 4080 SUPER Metal Master was 14550 points, compared to the RTX 3080 The score of 8602 has increased by about 69%, which can be said to far exceed the performance of the previous generation.

In the 3DMark Fire Strike Extreme DX11 test, the graphics card score of GALAXY GEFORCE RTX 4080 SUPER Metal Master reached 34426 points, which was an increase of about 68.9% compared to the RTX 3080's 20382 points. , which is also a 27% improvement compared to the 27074 points of the previous generation RTX 3090 Ti.

In the 3DMark Fire Strike Ultra DX11 test, the graphics card score of the GALAXY GEFORCE RTX 4080 SUPER Metal Master reached 17720 points, which was an increase of about 70.9% compared to the RTX 3080's 10365 points. , and also significantly surpassed the 13855 points of the previous generation RTX 3090 Ti.

In the 3DMark Portal Royal light tracing test, GALAXY GEFORCE RTX 4080 SUPER Metal Master scored 18509 points, an increase of 64.8% compared to the RTX 3080's 11231 points. Game performance has been greatly improved.

Game Test

Now that we are talking about games, we have to mention that the NVIDIA platform currently has more than 500 games and applications that support RTX technology, and As DLSS 3 technology becomes more mature and popular, the number of games that support DLSS 3 is also increasing.

For example, 14 new games supporting DLSS 3 technology have been added this year, including "Dragon's Dogma 2", "Horizon: West", "Yakuza 8", "Halfjoll" Well-known games such as "Destiny 2 RTX". In addition, the released "Alan Killer 2", "Cyberpunk 2077: Shadows of the Past", "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3", etc. also support DLSS 3 or DLSS 3.5 technology at the first time. At the same time, the current mainstream popular online competitive games all support NVIDIA Reflex technology. Whether it is for low-end players or e-sports players, these two technologies can greatly improve the gaming experience.

In the next game test session, we will test 6 games for you, including 2 online competitive games, 2 traditional raster games and 2 games that support DLSS 3 /3.5 ray-tracing games, all games are tested at 4K resolution to verify its 4K/4K ray-tracing game performance.

First of all, there are two online competitive games. In "CS2", we use the default high image quality option, conduct a game at 4K resolution, and record the average through Frame View In terms of frame rate, the average frame rate of GALAXY GEFORCE RTX 4080 SUPER Metal Master can reach 303 frames. 4K e-sports is not a dream.

In addition, by turning on the NVIDIA Reflex option in the game settings to enable enhancement, even at 4K resolution, the average delay of the game is only 10.6ms, which is very good for players. The impact can be said to be very small.

For the second online competitive game, we chose the popular "Rainbow Six: Siege", GALAXY GEFORCE RTX 4080 SUPER Metal Master at 4K resolution, the highest The average number of frames under the image quality reaches 349 frames, which is fully able to meet the needs of high-scoring and high-brush e-sports.

As for latency, "Rainbow Six: Siege" also supports NVIDIA Reflex technology. When the game is running, select the option with Vukan to find Reflex in the game. On enhanced option, after it is enabled to capture through Frame, the average delay at 4K resolution is only 12.6ms, and the delay performance is quite good.

Then there are 2 traditional raster games. In the classic narrative adventure game "Red Dead Redemption 2", choose the highest image quality and average frames at 4K resolution. The number can reach an average of 100 frames, and the RTX 4080 is 95 frames, an increase of 5.2%.

We also tested Ubisoft’s latest game “Assassin’s Creed: Visions” by running the game’s own performance benchmark test at the highest resolution of 4K. The average frame number of GALAXY GEFORCE RTX 4080 SUPER Metal Master reached 100 frames, and the average frame number of RTX 4080 was 92 frames, an increase of about 8.6%. In traditional raster games, the improvement of RTX 4080 SUPER compared to RTX 4080 is relatively limited.

So how does GALAX GEFORCE RTX 4080 SUPER Metal Master perform in light chasing games? This site has selected two ray tracing games that support DLSS 3/3.5. One of them is the very well optimized "Forza Horizon 5". Select the extreme image quality preset in the game and turn on DLSS 3 DLSS 2 quality. file, the NVIDIA Reflex option will also be turned on by default. As usual, we select Reflex ON BOOST and run the performance benchmark test that comes with the game.

Enter the game and select 4K resolution extreme image quality, the average number of frames can reach 148 frames, and the average delay of the game is only 15.4ms. The average frame rate of the RTX 4080 is 132 frames, an increase of about 12.1%. For a racing game with competitive attributes, the 4K resolution image quality can reach around 150 frames at full capacity, which is a pleasure to play.

So if we only turn on light chasing, not turn on the DLSS option, and turn off the Reflex low-latency option, how about the performance of GALAXY GEFORCE RTX 4080 SUPER Metal Master? It can be seen that in the well-optimized Horizon 5, even without DLSS, the average frame rate under 4K light tracing still reaches 125 frames. However, without the blessing of Reflex low-latency technology, the average game delay soars to 24ms.

The last one is "Cyberpunk: 2077", which has very high requirements for graphics card performance. This time we tested it 3 times. For the first time, we selected super ray tracing quality and turned on DLSS 2 quality level DLSS 3 frame generation, running the built-in benchmark performance test at 4K resolution, the average frame rate can reach 84 frames, which is not bad performance.

The second time we chose the ultra-fast light tracing quality, turned on DLSS 2 quality level DLSS 3 frames to generate DLSS 3.5 light reconstruction, at this time at 4K resolution, GALAXY GEFORCE RTX 4080 SUPER The average frame rate of Metal Master is exactly 60 frames, which can be regarded as holding the bottom line of 4K / 60 frames.

Of course, if DLSS is completely turned off and only light tracing is turned on, the average number of frames in the game under 4K will be only 28 frames. After all, not all games can be optimized for Horizon 5 Level and image quality also have different loads on performance. Through comparison, it is not difficult to find that DLSS technology is definitely the most practical technology for gamers.

Turn off light reconstruction

Turn on light reconstruction

So what impact will not being able to enable DLSS 3.5 have on the game image quality? Look at these two pictures. The reflection of the slippery road after rain in the same scene in the game gives us the answer. After turning on light reconstruction, the clarity of the reflection is significantly improved, and the artifacts that were common in the previous pictures are also much reduced. It is obvious that DLSS 3.5 can be said to be the lubricant for high-level ray tracing. While retaining the highest picture effects, it can also achieve the best frame rate performance.

However, we can’t just look at the average frames for game performance, but also look at the power consumption of this graphics card when running mainstream games, so this site also helps you calculate GALAXY GEFORCE The average power consumption of games at RTX 4080 SUPER Metal Master graphics card at 4K resolution. Among the 6 games, "Cyberpunk: 2077" leads the way with a power consumption of 290W, while Rainbow 6 Siege's 4K seems to have no power consumption. After optimization, the power consumption of 271W is relatively high. The power consumption of the other four games is all below 240W. Faced with the RTX 4080 SUPER, which is fully loaded with 320W power consumption, there is no need to worry about being unable to carry it.

creative production

We mentioned earlier that the L2 cache of GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER has also reached 64MB, the memory bandwidth is as high as 23Gbps, and there are as many as 836 AI TOPS cores. This is GEFORCE RTX 4080 SUPER provides a strong guarantee for creative production and AI performance. Users can also install NVIDIA Studio drivers to accelerate more than 110 of the most popular creative applications, such as Optix, DLSS and Maxine, as well as the full suite of NVIDIA Studio creative applications, including NVIDIA Omniverse, Broadcast, Canvas and RTX Remix.

In modeling and rendering software, GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER's 10240 CUDA cores can provide hardware acceleration, improving work efficiency. Almost all modeling software is optimized for NVIDIA GPUs, so it can take into account efficiency, stability, and compatibility. For example, in the commonly used rendering tool V-Ray, you can use the RTX accelerated ray tracing function to achieve high-performance final frame rendering. In addition, a GPU equipped with AI noise reduction can further accelerate interactive rendering and provide a smoother work experience.

Actually take a look at the professional productivity performance of the GALAXY GEFORCE RTX 4080 SUPER Metal Master graphics card. The first is the benchmark test part of the V-Ray Benchmark modeling software. The GPU CUDA test item scored 3107 points.

In the GPU RTX test project, the final score of the GALAXY GEFORCE RTX 4080 SUPER Metal Master graphics card was 4314 points.

In the Benchmark test of another modeling software blender, the three-scenario scores of the GALAXY GEFORCE RTX 4080 SUPER Metal Master graphics card are as shown in the figure, and the three-scene scores are 4543, 2138, 2212, there is also a significant improvement.

Then let’s take a look at its performance in video rendering and encoding and decoding. GEFORCE RTX 4080 SUPER is equipped with 2 NVENC encoders and supports the new generation of AV1 video encoding technology. The same It can provide faster video encoding and higher quality streaming performance at the same video size. Domestic Cutting Professional Edition has implemented acceleration support for the NVIDIA AV1 video encoder. We also tested this. We imported a 2 minute and 30 second 4K video material into the Cutting Professional Edition, and then used H .264 encoding and AV1 encoding for export.

You can see that when exporting the same 4K / 60 frame specifications, the size of the video exported by AV1 encoding is 609MB, and the size of the video exported by H.264 encoding is 800MB. The volume of AV1-encoded videos is nearly one-third smaller than H.264-encoded videos.

And in terms of picture quality, by intercepting the picture details of the two videos and observing them, there is basically no difference between the two encoding methods. They are small and high-definition, AV1 It is bound to become the new favorite among encoding formats.

There is also RTX video super-resolution technology, which can upgrade online 1080P video to 4K resolution at most through the AI ​​calculation of the GPU, achieving improved clarity through algorithms Effect. We only need to find the video in the NVIDIA control panel - adjust the video image settings, and then we can customize the adjustment. There are 4 super levels.

↑ From left to right are 480P, VSR1, VSR2, VSR3, VSR4

We play on this site B I took a video posted by the website account, adjusted the resolution to 480P, and then successively increased the super score level to conduct a screenshot test. It can be seen that the characters become clearer at levels 1-4.

Finally, we briefly tested the performance of this card in AIGC through Stable Diffusion. The model we used is sd_xl_base_1.0_0 based on the SDXL open source model. 9vae.safetensors, draw 21 images of anime girls in the form of Vincentian diagrams, the image resolution is 1024*1024, the sampling method is Euler a, the number of iteration steps is 50, the total number of batches is 10, and the final cost is 1 minute 58.5 Completed in seconds.

The second time we opened the TensorRT Engines optimization engine and ran it again with other settings unchanged. This time it took 1 minute and 07 seconds. Saved nearly half.

Summary

The GALAXY GEFORCE RTX 4080 SUPER Metal Master graphics card performed very well in actual tests, whether it was the 4K light-chasing gaming experience with DLSS technology or the power consumption performance of 4K gaming. The AI ​​performance and professional productivity performance are all impeccable. It can be said that it is the current high-end flagship card with balanced performance in all aspects. In addition, the official price this time is also quite sincere. Compared with the RTX 4080’s immediate discount of 1,400 yuan for the first launch, it makes it even more attractive.

In fact, as an ordinary player, the performance of the GALAXY GEFORCE RTX 4080 SUPER Metal Master graphics card is obviously overflowing. For example, players who pursue 2K games can choose the cheaper RTX 4070 SUPER, after all, the price of 8,099 yuan is still very wallet-friendly. Fortunately, the appearance design and workmanship of the GALAXY GEFORCE RTX 4080 SUPER Metal Master graphics card are very online. It is also an excellent choice for users who pursue high-looking installations.

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