NVIDIA’s opened 2024 with a salvo of announcements and that included the release of 3 GPUs: the RTX 4080 SUPER, the RTX 4070 Ti SUPER and the RTX 4070 SUPER. NVIDIA’s SUPER brand has been reserved for mid-life refreshes and the RTX 40 SUPER series is no exception. We’ve already covered the RTX 4070 SUPER in my launch day review and this week I’m presenting the first of our wave of RTX 4080 SUPER and RX 4070 Ti SUPER reviews. In this review, we’ll be covering the ASUS ROG STRIX RTX 4080 SUPER OC graphics card.
ASUS has positioned their ROG Strix as their mainstream ROG offering, choosing to keep the mainline ROG in a class of its own. This has bumped the ROG Strix family to premium class and the RTX 40 series has made it so that higher-tier cards weigh just as much as they cost.
As the mainstream flagship for ASUS, the ROG Strix RTX 4080 SUPER OC supplants the now-defunct RTX 4080 from their line-up but bears exactly the same cooler etc. Of course, the learnings of last year has probably made ASUS more robust in designing their internal components but alas, if I’m not sharing this card I would’ve tried badly putting the 12VHPWR to see if we get some issues. Truth be told, I’ve gone through nearly all of ASUS’ RTX 40 cards and I’ve yet to have issues with their power connector. The newer RTX 40 SUPER cards apparently use a newer more robust connector but I didn’t manage to do a teardown to confirm.
Going back to the RTX 4080 SUPER itself, the “new” GPU is a slight bump on the older RTX 4080 but fully utilizes the AD103 silicon giving the RTX 4080 SUPER all 10,240 CUDA cores. Video memory remains the same but gets a slight bump to 23Gbps. The RTX 4080 SUPER retains the older 320W TGP of the original RTX 4080.
Perhaps the biggest change with the RTX 4080 SUPER is the adjusted pricing, putting the RTX 4080 SUPER at $1000 versus the original $1200. This of course only applies to non-OC cards and what we have here is an ROG Strix RTX 4080 SUPER OC which currently sits at around PHP89,000~ ($1600 more or less). As someone who has purchased the original RTX 4080 for PHP92,000, I have mixed feelings.
Regardless, it all boils down to performance. In this review, we’ll check out how the ASUS ROG Strix RTX 4080 SUPER OC performs. Read on to find out more!
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I often wonder if Asus really deserves their huge price premium versus the likes of Inno3D, Zotac and Palit
Tough question. Some people really buy into the brand and feel good owning one. I’m a Zotac guy but only because I prefer their warranty for reference cards versus Palit.
Miguel Araneta similar sentiments. Just add Php 10K+ and you can already get the RTX 4090.
John Francis Gamao yup. Even for their cheaper cards, I think the ROG and TUF 4070 Supers are not that far from the price of Palit and Inno3D 4070 Ti Supers (around 5-6K difference).
Miguel Araneta the TUF non OC model is good to buy if someone really likes Asus brand. It’s close to PH’s SRP but I’ll avoid the OC version of it. OC version price is an additional 8-9K for a measly 1-3 FPS difference.