Built upon the new Lovelace architecture, Nvidia's new flagship cards, which apparently have four different 3080 variants are coming to hit the markets this year. But that doesn't change the fact that the RTX 4080 has the same architecture used by the card’s beast of a sibling, the Nvidia RTX 4090, which is supposed to come out at the same time. In this post we will discuss more about its performance benchmarks, pricing, and release dates for the upcoming cards.

Price

The first thing anyone looks at while choosing their newest cards is the price at which they will 'get' the card, not the one mentioned at the launch. With the reputation that Nvidia has had with pricing its products in past, we are for now going to say it will be the highest till date for the Founder's cards as far as the marketed 'Gaming' graphics cards go. There are going to be many variants of each card, so pricing will be according to their specs, but for the RTX 4080 12GB variant, the price will be $899/£949 or ₹74,000. The much bigger 16GB variant though will set you back by a whopping $1199 / £1269 or ₹98500. 

Remember that these prices are excluding the GST rates in India. Post GST many will have big holes in their pockets.

Specifications

Coming to the performance part, the new Nvidia card boasts the newest Lovelace architecture. It has the upgraded TSMC’s 4nm process node, which power packs an impressive 76 billion transistors, to better compare, let me remind you, the previous generation Ampere cards were limited to 28 billion transistors.This means a much faster performance can be expected through the Lovelace architecture.

With this generation, Nvidia will update to DLSS 3.0, which will significantly improve frame rate performance over the previous DLSS 2.0. And yes, even the Ray tracing part will see a significant improvement. The previous 3000 series flagship cards had among them the newly launched RTX 3080, which had only 10GB of memory to serve, which was kind of disappointing at first, but still amazed the whole buyer audience with the frame boosts over its predecessor, the RTX 2080ti.

This generation however, will not see an improvement however with the 12GB and 16GB variants of RTX 4080. The Nvidia RTX 4080 (16GB) will boast 9728 CUDA Cores which is just a little bit less than Nvidia's 2020 Flagship card RTX 3090 at 10752 CUDA cores, while the 12 GB RTX 4080 will have 7680 CUDA Cores.

But wait, there is more to it than Cudas and it's the speeds of these cards. The 16GB variant speeds up to 2.51GHz, while the 12GB model is capable of speeds up to 2.61GHz. Although the claim from Nvidia sounds astounding as they claim it will be 2-4 times faster (RTX 4080 16GB) than the previous RTX 3080ti (12GB), which if you compare them on the basis of CUDA cores and speeds doesn't seem to correlate, but with the Lovelace Architecture it is actually possible now.

It doesn't even stop there, Even after giving an impressive performance boost, Nvidia has actually managed to reduce the power consumption for the RTX 4080 series compared to its predecessor graphics cards. The 16 GB variant has a graphics card power of 320W, while the 12 GB variant comes in at just 285W.

The below Comparison table shows the differences between the two cards:

Release date

The Nvidia RTX 4080 is confirmed to launch in November 2022. Nvidia hasn’t given a certain release date until now, but we’ll make sure to update this article as soon as we get any new updates on the topic.

Meanwhile, the flagship of the launch, the Nvidia RTX 4090 will launch a month earlier, on October 12, 2022, to be precise.