On the evening of November 17, the NVIDIA Geforce RTX4080 graphics card was officially launched. Previously, IT Home has tested the performance of the public version of RTX4080 and several non-public cards for everyone. Now another Sotai RTX 4080 16GB Apocalypse OC graphics card has also come to our hands. This graphics card has 5 fans, and its actual performance is very exciting.
IT Home This time, the specific configuration of the test platform built by Sotai RTX 4080 16GB Apocalypse OC is shown in the figure below. Before test, in order to ensure that the unified platform is used, the motherboard we used is the Z790 of Colorful . However, in this test, we found that the motherboard of the Colorful Linux motherboard and the Sotai graphics card have compatibility problems and cannot pass the self-test smoothly, so we had to temporarily replace the motherboard. This bug has been fed back to Sotai and Colorful Bluetooth official. When you install it recently, try to avoid using the Colorful Bluetooth motherboard with Sotai graphics card :
Appearance ID Design
Sotai RTX 4080 Apocalypse OC The front of the graphics card adopts a three-fan design, and the fan is surrounded by a piece of silver-white silver scale armor, and is supplemented with a small amount of black coating. While increasing the recognition and texture of the graphics card, it also effectively improves the structural strength of the front of the graphics card.
3 11cm bionic shield scale 2.0 designed with a large fan area, and the area of a single fan blade is larger than that of the previous generation. The surface is designed with a bionic stripe and the curvature of the fan blade is optimized to increase the fan air volume, air pressure and air flow, and supports FREEZE fan start-stop technology. The back of the
graphics card uses a black alloy back plate, which to a certain extent provides anti-collision and anti-static protection for the internal PCB of the graphics card . The two fans on the back panel are designed with blowing and exhaust air, which helps the overall flow of the graphics card to be smoother and have better heat dissipation. At the same time, the fan, combined with the Apocalypse Wings pattern on the back panel, forms a complete Apocalypse Wings 2.0 that will shine, making the appearance more distinctive. On one side of the graphics card, you can see a luminous light card with the Sotai Logo in the center, next to it is the word GEFORCE RTX. Above is a large-area thickened heat dissipation fin module exposed. The newly upgraded VC cooling system of the Sotai RTX 4080 Apocalypse OC graphics card consists of a large-area cooling version, high-density nickel-plated fins, and convection penetration heat dissipation.
Sotai RTX 4080 Apocalypse OC graphics card adopts a semi-wrap design, and the fan parts are designed with double ball bearing , reducing fan operation friction, further reducing fan operation noise, and extending fan life.
Graphics card has dual BIOS switching buttons on the top, providing players with two fan control modes: acceleration and silence, and can use the buttons on the graphics card to switch fan cooling strategies during the game. The 12+4P power supply interface is overall gold-plated on the metal terminals, effectively reducing oxidation and reducing the contact between the power cord and the interface impedance .
Sotai RTX 4080 Apocalypse OC graphics card has three RGB lighting display areas on the front, back and top of the front, back, and all support hundreds of thousands of lighting cycle modes of 16 million colors. The front light is composed of a translucent drill-cut fantasy breathing lamp, and it is very rare to only light up a large fan in the middle. After the
is turned on, the Sotai Logo light sign on the top will show the effect of a mirror translucent breathing lamp, further increasing the lighting atmosphere in the chassis. The two fans on the back will naturally light up at the same time and show a streaming effect. Combined with the pattern on the back plate of the graphics card, it forms a true wing of the entire body of the apocalypse.
simple technology parsing
Sotai RTX 4080 16GB Apocalypse OC is built on the AD103 core of the new generation of NVIDIA Ada Lovelace architecture, using TSMC 4N process, 9728 CUDA cores, 304 Tensor cores, and 112 ROP units. Compared with the public version RTX4080, this card also uses 24+3 super luxurious power supply, a new 12+4P interface, which surpasses the public version configuration and has better electrical performance.
Sotai RTX 4080 16GB Apocalypse OC's video memory has been improved to 16GB GDDR6X type, with a width of 256-bit. The biggest advantage of large video memory is that it no longer worrys about the explosive video memory problem in the game, and is more optimized for productivity creation. Moreover, the core frequency of the graphics card is 2205MHz, the acceleration frequency is 2580MHz, and the video memory frequency is as high as 22.4Gbps, which is very terrifying.
The third generation RTX Cores, thanks to Ada's new flagship architecture, can improve ray tracing performance up to 2 times. NVIDIA DLSS 3 has also undergone comprehensive evolution. Compared with DLSS 2, it has added frame generation technology, which can predict motion changes between frames and frames, realize AI interpolation, and achieve higher frame rate while maintaining image quality. These technologies are naturally beneficial to gamers, and the RTX4080's performance in next-generation games is exciting.
RTX4080 has up to 83TFLOPS shader capability, with a throughput of 2 times higher than the previous generation of products. The fourth-generation Tensor Cores can increase throughput by 4 times to 1.4Tensor-petaFLOPS, and increase AI performance by 2 times. The dual NVIDIA encoder also supports AV1 encoding, with an efficiency of 40% higher than H.264. The majority of game anchors, video calls and video creative workers can enjoy the image quality improvement and efficiency improvement it brings. In terms of energy efficiency ratio, the TSMC4N custom process can achieve up to 2 times the power consumption ratio improvement. The preset power consumption of the Sotai RTX 4080 16GB Apocalypse OC is 320W. Considering the huge performance improvement, the advantages of energy efficiency ratio will be more prominent.
theoretical performance test
Next we start the actual test. First, the FurMark roaster test, double baking for 10 minutes of donut + AIDA64, the core temperature is stable at 61.0℃, which is 3℃ lower than the public version of the GTX4080 of the same test platform, the power consumption remains at 320W full blood, and the fan speed is only 31%. It is the quietest running among the few RTX4080s we have tested. As expected, 5 fans still have some advantages.
In the
3D Mark, first of all, in the Time Spy test that reflects the performance of DX12 gaming, the score of the Sotai RTX 4080 16GB Apocalypse OC graphics card reached 26894 points. For comparison, the score of the public version of the same test platform is 26552 points, the score of the GeForce RTX 3080 10G version is 17306 points, the score of the RTX 3090 is 18981 points, and the score of the RTX 3090Ti is 21862 points. The Sotai RTX 4080 16GB Apocalypse OC graphics card is in the overall lead in the RTX30 series and surpasses the public version of RTX4080.
In the Fire Strike test that reflects the performance of DX11 gaming, the score of the Sotai RTX 4080 16GB Apocalypse OC graphics card reached 63192 points. In comparison, the public version of the same test platform's score was 53379 points, and Sotai led by nearly 10,000 points. In addition, the score of the GeForce RTX 3080 10G version is 40932 points, the score of the GeForce RTX 3090 is 46045 points, and the GeForce RTX 3090Ti is 52630 points.
In the 3DMark Portal Royal ray tracing test, the Sotai RTX 4080 16GB Apocalypse OC graphics card won 17405 points, which is about 50% higher than the GeForce RTX 3080, and the improvement is greater than the performance of raster .
Sotai RTX 4080 16GB Apocalypse OC graphics card in theoretical running scores gave us a great surprise. We have created a comparison table of GPU physical scores for everyone. Among all the projects, Sotai RTX 4080 16GB Apocalypse OC has significantly improved compared to several flagship graphics cards of the previous generation.
NVIDIA DLSS 3 parsing
Although the theoretical performance has surpassed all RTX 30 series graphics cards, the real significant improvement is DLSS 3 technology. DLSS 3 is a new optical flow accelerator powered by the new fourth-generation Tensor Core and GeForce RTX 40 series GPUs. It is the latest version of NVIDIA deep learning supersampling technology and has pioneered optical frame generation technology, which will usher in a new era of NVIDIA RTX neural network rendering games and applications.
The optical flow accelerator based on the NVIDIA Ada Lovelace architecture can analyze two consecutive game images and calculate motion vector data of objects and elements in the frame to frame without the need for traditional game engines to model. The frame generation model simultaneously acquires motion vectors and optical flow data in the game engine, which greatly reduces visual anomalies of AI when rendering elements such as particles, reflections, shadows, and lighting.
Simply put, in the past, DLSS 2 was used to render a low-resolution image and then zoom in to high resolution to achieve the improvement of image quality and frame number. On the basis of compatibility with DLSS 2, the new DLSS 3 has also added a frame generation function, which can insert new AI-reduced frames between two real frames to double the frame count. Combined with the super-resolution feature of DLSS 2, AI can rebuild up to seven-eighth of display pixels, and gaming performance can be up to 4 times better than without DLSS!
Then let’s also check the performance of the new card through actual testing. The latest version of 3DMark has been adapted to the BenchMark of DLSS 3. We compare the test results of the Sotai RTX 4080 16GB Apocalypse OC graphics card with the DLSS 2 control variables, and we can intuitively see the difference.
After IT Home's actual test, in DLSS 2 mode, the average frame number of Sotai RTX 4080 16GB Apocalypse OC graphics card is 99.41 frames. This result is roughly estimated to be 2.5 times higher than that of not turning on DLSS 2. After turning on the latest DLSS 3, the average frame count of the Sotai RTX 4080 16GB Apocalypse OC graphics card has been further increased to 127.75 frames. According to rough estimates, compared with the non-open DLSS 2, it has been increased by 3.3 times.
Of course, the biggest problem with the new technology is whether it can quickly adapt to new games. Obviously, NVIDIA has done a good job in this regard. Not only is the first batch of DLSS 3's game lineup very luxurious, but as long as DLSS 3 is adapted to, can be backward compatible with DLSS 2, which will greatly reduce the adaptability of developers and players can also maximize their benefits. This time, we selected a number of games that have been adapted to DLSS 3, including "Cyberpunk 2077", "Super Human", "Light Memory: Infinity" and "Reincarnation of Life and Death" to test the Sotai RTX 4080 16GB Apocalypse OC graphics card.
First of all, the recently popular 3A game "The Legend of the Plague: Requiem", the effect of frame rate improvement is more obvious. By default, it still does not reach 60 frames, but with the support of DLSS technology, you can achieve a frame increase of about 2.5 times when you turn it to the performance level. If DLSS 3+ Super Performance is turned on, the frame count can even achieve a 3x surge.
In the new work "Super Human" by Blue Hole, the developer of " PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds ", also provides the option of DLSS 3. After turning on the DLSS 3 performance level, the frame count is 60%, and the frame count under the DLSS 3 super performance can be doubled.
, which tests GPU performance, has a very good test of Cyberpunk: 2077, which has carried out its own BenchMark test under the highest image quality of 4K Super Ray Tracing. Judging from the results, it puts a lot of pressure on GPU performance. The number of frames at DLSS is only 75 when the entire DLSS is leveled. After opening DLSS 3 and selecting the performance level, the frame rate is increased to 108 frames, an increase of up to 44%, which is directly promoted to the esports-level 3A Ray Tracing experience.
Next, let's test a very GPU-efficient online game " Fantasy Tower ". Once upon a time, "Fantasy Tower" was just a mobile game, but unexpectedly, the PC side actually directly pulled the picture quality to the maximum. NVIDIA's new graphics card features were almost used. It provides complete support for RTX+DLSS 2+DLSS 3. After turning on RTX, the reflection on the ground is obviously more realistic, and the feeling of Cyber City is lifelike.
Of course, after actually turning on the ray tracing effect, it really tests the performance of the graphics card. There are less than 50 frames at the highest 4K picture quality, so it will definitely not be very smooth to play. However, when we turn on the performance level of DLSS 3, the frame rate has increased by nearly 1.5 times, and when we reach 116 frames, it suddenly becomes an e-sports-level experience. You should know that this is the 4K ray tracing image quality.
game delay test
Of course, the essence of DLSS 3 technology is that AI generates new frames, so it will definitely bring about delay increase. For games with high operating accuracy requirements, the ms-level delay difference will also affect the player's experience and feel. Therefore, after turning on the frame generation function of DLSS 3, NVIDIA Reflex will also be forced to open to minimize the rendering delay caused by the generated frames.
In Overwatch: Return, which is also a FPS competitive online game, it also provides the NVIDIA Reflex low latency option. It enables the CPU to start submitting rendering work to the GPU before completing the previous frame, thereby greatly reducing or even eliminating the rendering queue, and the response time is faster. After actual testing, the latency was reduced by 62% after the Enhanced Reflex option was turned on.
4K game test
In addition to masterpieces that support DLSS 3, IT Home has also tested several mainstream games for everyone. After all, for now, the number of "old" 3A games that support DLSS 2 is very large.
In " Tomb Raider: Shadow ", the actual test is that even if DLSS is not enabled with the highest 4K resolution, the Sotai RTX 4080 16GB Apocalypse OC can run to 137 frames when running the benchmark test, and it can already play with a 4K/144Hz monitor.
This game also supports DLSS 2 technology. After turning on DLSS 2, the frame rate can be increased by up to 80%. All projects are also slightly higher than the public version, and can already challenge future 8K games.
Finally, we tested a ray tracing 3A masterpiece "Control: Ultimate Edition". The highest 4K picture quality is the highest ray tracing without DLSS. The situation is the same as the Fantasy Tower, and it is less than 50 frames, but after turning on DLSS, the frame count doubles, and this experience is better. After some testing, there is no problem with the Sotai RTX 4080 16GB Apocalypse OC driving 4K gaming.
Creative Production Test
Sotai RTX 4080 16GB Apocalypse OC has greatly improved computing power, and the video memory has also been greatly improved. With the help of these hardware and technical upgrades, the RTX4080 graphics card will surely bring higher efficiency and greater potential in creative production and deep learning. By installing the NVIDIA Studio driver, it supports more than 75 creative software to call the AI computing power of the NVIDIA CUDA core.
In modeling and rendering software, GeForce RTX4080 can use CUDA to provide hardware acceleration for work. Currently, almost all modeling software will optimize NVIDIA's GPU, so it can achieve the coexistence of efficiency, stability and compatibility. For example, in the commonly used rendering tool V-Ray, RTX-accelerated ray tracing can be used to achieve high-performance final frame rendering. With the help of AI-equipped noise reduction, the GPU can further accelerate interactive rendering.
In V-Ray Benchmark, the Sotai RTX 4080 16GB Apocalypse OC has scored 3073 points, which can meet most modeling and rendering needs.
Thanks to Ada's new flagship architecture, ray tracing performance has been greatly improved. The score of Souste RTX 4080 16GB Apocalypse OC in V-Ray GPU RTX has been increased to 4066 points, and even the high rendering pressure of real-time ray tracing can be handled calmly.
and dual NVIDIA encoders support AV1 encoding. AV1 is the next generation of video encoding technology that can provide faster video encoding and higher quality streaming performance while occupying the same space. This encoding format is already very common in current mainstream multimedia applications. For example, the domestic editing software Chuangying Professional Edition already supports the video encoder acceleration of AV1, as well as the OBS live broadcast software, and currently supports the recording of NVENC's AV1 encoding.
AV1 becomes a trend that is not only the result of technological progress, but also hits the pain point of the industry's demand for productivity, that is, greatly compressing the size of the video file while ensuring that the image quality is almost unaffected.
We also conducted a simple test on this, using two different encodings of H264 and AV1 through the editing professional version software. The final H264-encoded file size is 159MB, while the AV1-encoded file size is only 127MB, which is reduced by 21%, but the image quality is basically invisible.
Finally, a rendering test for PugetBench For Davinci. GPU-accelerated effects based on NVIDIA CUDA technology enable faster real-time video editing and frame rendering, with output speeds up to 5 times higher using NVIDIA encoding.The Sotai RTX 4080 16GB Apocalypse OC scored 2547 points in this test, and 8K video clips no longer need to be used for proxying.
summary
Sotai RTX 4080 16GB Apocalypse OC The deep impression I left on this time is not only its powerful hardware performance, but also because the RTX4080 has powerful AI computing power and technology. Whether it is NVIDIA DLSS 3, DLSS frame insertion technology or NVIDIA Reflax low-latency technology, the game experience improvement they bring to players is real, immediate, visible and tangible.
Sotai RTX 4080 16GB Apocalypse OC's appearance design is also very interesting. The two fans on the back can better help the graphics card to get air exhausted and blow air, making the heat dissipation more efficient. At the same time, after the RGB is lit, the fan is also quite novel and unique. In short, if you have a high pursuit of graphics card performance, especially 4K high-frame gaming experience, Sotai RTX 4080 16GB Apocalypse OC will definitely satisfy you
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