GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER Review: Chasing RTX 4090, For Under $1K
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER: GPU Compute, Rendering And Encoding Tests
Our Test System Configuration:
| Hardware Used: AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D (4.2GHz - 5GHz, 8-Core) ASUS X670E Hero 32GB G.SKILL DDR5-6000 Samsung SSD 990 Integrated Audio / Network Radeon RX 7900 XT Radeon RX 7800 XT Radeon RX 7900 XTX GeForce RTX 4070 Super GeForce RTX 4070 Ti ASUS TUF GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super GeForce RTX 4080 GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER GeForce RTX 4090 Relevant Software: Windows 11 Pro 22H2 AMD Radeon v23.12.1 NVIDIA Drivers v551.15 |
Benchmarks Used: LuxMark v4 Blender v4 Blackmagic RAW Speed Test v3.6.1 IndigoBench v4.4.15 UL 3DMark UL VRMark Unigine Superposition Forspoken Returnal Cyberpunk 2077 Far Cry 6 GOTY Edition F1 23 Guardians Of The Galaxy |
LuxMark v4.0 Benchmarks
LuxMark is a cross-platform, OpenCL-accelerated 3D rendering benchmark. It's a tool based on the open source LuxRender physically-based spectral rendering engine, which accurately models the transportation of light and supports high dynamic range. LuxRender features a number of material types to allow rendering of photo-realistic and artistic scenes. LuxRender is free software licensed under the GPL that offers plugins for packages like Blender, Maya, Cinema 4D and 3DS Max.
At the risk of spilling the beans right out of the gate, we should warn you to get used to the GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER's position on our charts. The GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER's additional core resources and higher GPU boost and memory clocks put it ahead of the original RTX 4080 here, but there's no catching the powerful GeForce RTX 4090. You're probably going to "hear" us say that a lot.
IndigoBench Rendering Benchmarks
IndigoBench is based on Indigo 4's advanced rendering engine and offers both CPU and GPU rendering modes for its two built-in models. The standalone benchmark is available for Windows, MacOS, and Linux and outputs results in M/Samples per second.
Once again the GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER slightly outpaces the original 4080, with both models. The deltas separating the two cards are relatively small, though. Versus the Radeons, however, it's a different story. The GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER significantly outpaces the Radeons in this benchmark.
Blender v4 GPU Rendering Benchmarks
Blender is a free and open source 3D creation suite that can handle everything from modeling, rigging, and animation, through simulation, rendering, compositing, motion tracking, and even video editing or game creation. The developers offer a standalone benchmark tool that will track performance while rendering a handful of models. We used all three of the default models for these tests...
Blackmagic RAW Speed Test Results
The Blackmagic RAW Speed Test is a CPU and GPU benchmarking tool that tests the speed of decoding full-resolution Blackmagic RAW frames. The tool can be used to evaluate the performance at various resolutions and bitrates on the CPU or using OpenCL or CUDA on a GPU. We're reporting two results here, both at an 8K resolution, but at differing bitrates and compression levels.
The media block with 5th Gen NVDEC engine shines here, once again allowing the GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER to notch a second place victory, trailing only the flagship GeForce RTX 4090.
