Nvidia has had a little bit of a turbulent time of late, however it seems to be just like the upcoming GeForce RTX 4080 graphics card may get our hype ranges rising once more. That is due to a brand new leak, which suggests the GPU could possibly be as much as 15% quicker than the RTX 3090 Ti – which was itself probably the most highly effective graphics card in Group Inexperienced’s earlier RTX 3000 technology.

The leak, which was reported by Wccftech (opens in new tab), accommodates what seems to be a number of benchmark check outcomes from the RTX 4080, which – if correct – give us an concept of the sort of efficiency the upcoming GPU will be capable of supply.

In fact, benchmark outcomes aren’t the one indicator of efficiency, and we are able to’t confirm these outcomes. Additionally, if they’re certainly actual, the RTX 4080 could also be utilizing early pre-release drivers, which may affect efficiency.

Nonetheless, from what we are able to see right here, there’s actually trigger to be excited.

Check outcomes

Within the CUDA Geekbench 5 benchmark, the RTX 4080 apparently scored 300.7k factors, making it round 15% quicker than the RTX 3090 Ti, and an enormous 45% quicker than the RTX 3080, which because the identify suggests is the cardboard the 4080 is meant to interchange.

Nevertheless, the hole between the 4080 and the high-end RTX 4090 above it’s fairly big, with the 4080 stated to be 30% slower than the top-spec card.

The OpenCL benchmark reveals an analogous sample, with the 4080 being 9% quicker than the RTX 3090 Ti, and 37.5% quicker than the RTX 3080. The RTX 4090, nonetheless, is 36% quicker than the 4080 in these outcomes.

Within the closing leaked Geekbench 5 check, which checks how the GPUs carry out with Vulkan API workloads, the RTX 4080 once more beats the mighty RTX 3090 TI – however solely by 5.5% this time. It’s additionally 20% quicker than the RTX 3080, and 45% slower than the RTX 4090.

Evaluation: What does this imply?

Whereas benchmark scores, particularly unverified ones for an unreleased GPU, solely inform us a little bit of the story, they a minimum of give us an concept of the place to set our expectations.

Wanting on the efficiency hole between the RTX 3080 and the RTX 4080, there seems to be an enormous generational leap, so 3080 house owners could also be very tempted to purchase a 4080. Nevertheless, the 4080 will launch at $1,199 (round £1,050 / AU$1,790), which is quite a bit greater than the $699 (£649, round AU$950) the 3080 was purported to launch at. 

In fact in actuality, the RTX 3080 typically offered for lots greater than that, on account of inventory shortages, and whereas costs have dropped, the RTX 4080 will nonetheless be a compelling purchase if it is out there at face worth.

The truth that the RTX 4080 seems to be extra highly effective than the RTX 3090 Ti can also be fairly thrilling, particularly because the 3090 Ti is a flagship card that offered for a large $1,999 (round £1,600 / AU$2,700).

This makes the RTX 4080 seem like spectacular worth, albeit nonetheless costly in its personal proper. Nevertheless, individuals who splashed out on the RTX 3090 Ti are doubtless actual fans who need the perfect, and the slim efficiency enhance the 4080 provides in all probability gained’t attraction, regardless of the a lot cheaper price. As an alternative, they’ll be taking a look at simply how way more highly effective the 4090 is, and can go for that.

For individuals who can’t afford the 4090, nonetheless, the 4080 could possibly be a wonderful alternative that also beats any of the perfect 3000 collection GPUs.

We’ll know extra once we get in an RTX 4080 for overview and run our full suite of benchmark checks. Will the 4080 be adequate to interrupt into our greatest graphics playing cards listing? With the launch pencilled in for November 16, we gained’t have to attend lengthy to search out out.