New benchmark scores suggest that NVIDIA announced its RTX 40-series GPUs last month as an upgrade over the RTX 30 lineup. The initial lineup includes the top-of-the-line RTX 4090 and the more mainstream RTX 4080. What's worth noting here is that the company originally announced two versions of the RTX 4080 with 16GB and 12GB of RAM but withdrew plans to release the latter following massive criticism over its performance and pricing.
Alongside the RTX 4080 12GB, NVIDIA is also said to have scrapped the Ada Lovelace-based TITAN graphics card. Instead, the company is rumored to be working on the RTX 4090 Ti, which is expected to have very similar specifications to the standard 4090, but with 24GB of memory and 24Gbps speeds for the GDDR6X VRAM. Overall, the card is expected to be up to 20 percent faster than the standard 4090, with up to 18,176 CUDA cores, 96MB of L2 cache, 224 ROPs, and up to 2.95GHz boost speeds.
New benchmark scores for NVIDIA's RTX 4080 graphics card suggest that it could be a lot faster than the company’s last-gen flagship - the RTX 3090. The scores include results from the CUDA, OpenCL & Vulkan tests in Geekbench 5, and was seemingly conducted on a test mule powered by an AMD Ryzen 9 7950X processor mated to an ASUS ROG Crosshair X670E Extreme motherboard with 32GB of DDR5 RAM. The benchmarks show that the RTX 4080 got a CUDA score of 300728, an OpenCL score of 248932, and a Vulcan score of 148838.
NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 4080 Promises To Be A Monster
As pointed out by the RTX 3090 Ti and 45 percent higher than its immediate predecessor, the RTX 3080. Meanwhile, the OpenCL benchmark shows that the RTX 4080 is around 9 percent faster than the RTX 3090 Ti and 37.5 percent faster than the RTX 3080, while with Vulkan API workloads, the RTX 4080 is 5.5 percent faster than the RTX 3090 Ti and 20 percent faster than the RTX 3080.
It is worth noting that Geekbench results are relatively easy to fake, so it is important to take these listings with a pinch of salt. However, if the listings are genuine and the benchmark scores are really indicative of real-world performance, it would mean that the RTX 4080 should be able to handle most games at ultra-high settings and will be a great addition to anybody's gaming PC rig.