NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080
16 November, 2022Type
Graphics CardPrice
$1199.99 USNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 - Visual Inspection & Beauty Gallery
So let's get started by unboxing this behemoth of a graphics card and begin by taking a look at the packing first.
The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Founders Edition comes in a large box that weighs around 6Kg and has a rectangular shape. The whole box features a matte black color with the NVIDIA logo on the top left corner and the GeForce RTX 4080 logo below it.
If you flip the box vertically, you will see that it resembles an Xbox Series X console and it is also the same height. The side features an outline of the Founders Edition cooler.
The box will come as a standard with all NVIDIA RTX 4090 and RTX 4080 16 GB Founders Edition cards.
The top and bottom of the box are two separate compartments. The top opens up and the end result looks like a rectangle.
The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Founders Edition graphics card rests at the center of the packaging & you can see the creative take from NVIDIA in designing this package.
Once the box is open, you finally get to lay your eyes on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 graphics card which looks as spectacular as ever.
The card may look like it is the same design as the RTX 3090 Ti Founders Edition but it is a slightly updated version which we will explain in a bit.
A cover that exposes a lid sits underneath the card and can be easily pulled to reveal another package.
This package contains a few manuals and also one of the most important accessories that NVIDIA ships with its Founders Edition card.
if you guessed the 16-pin (12VHPWR) connector, then you guessed right. This is an NVIDIA-branded adapter and comes with a single 16-pin to three 8-pin connectors. This is rated to provide up to 450 Watts of power to the chip.
Following is what the 16-pin connector looks like. You may have already seen and heard about it in several articles from us, but you can notice that there are 12 standard pins and four smaller pins on the connector.
Out of the box, we can finally start taking a much better look at the Ada Lovelace powerhouse.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 "Ada Lovelace" Founders Edition Graphics Card Close Up
The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Founders Edition is a true BFGPU. A big chunky card that will take a good amount of room within your PC.
The card comes in a triple-slot design and you can see the several exhaust vents that are there to push air out of the chassis.
On the bottom of the shroud, you can see three plastic panels that cover the main heatsink and the largest one features the "RTX 4080" branding on it.
The back of the card is encircled by a large die-cast aluminum piece, forming an "X" shape in the center.
The card features a dual-axial flow-through design. This design incorporates two fans placed on different sides of the shroud (one front and one back) and perpendicular to one another.
The fan at the bottom pushes air out of the aluminum fins on the backplate.
As you can see, the card is super thick in design, and all of this thickness is there to hold the massive aluminum fins and heat pipes running through the shroud.
You can find a nice "GeForce RTX" logo on the card which features LEDs. A similar LED can also be found within the shroud on the back.
The card comes with a single 16-pin power connector that uses the aforementioned 12VHPWR plug that's bundled with the card.
The new Founders Edition cooler comes with 10% larger fan sizes and 10% larger fin volume. This is all to help the card run super cool and also super quiet.
Once again, you can lay your eyes on the RTX 4080 logo which comes with a new font style. This will be applicable across all RTX 40 series cards.
NVIDIA has taken away some of that aluminum frame room and cut out the corners to make space for the larger fans.
The front side of the card is an aluminum heatsink. These large heatsink blocks show that there's some serious cooling involved to keep the card running.
There's a nice little "RTX 4080" logo carved out on one of the four aluminum arms on the front of the shroud.
Lastly, we can just tell you that the card feels very premium and very awesome when running on the PC.
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