On the RTX 4080, NVIDIA has enabled 9,728 out of 10,752 GPU cores available in the silicon. AD103 comes with a much smaller die size than AD102, 379 mm² vs 608 mm² which makes it cheaper to produce-an important capability, because AMD is betting on chiplets with Navi 31, considerably strengthening their position. We now get a new GPU chip called "AD103" that sits between AD104 and AD102, which gives the company more flexibility to combat AMD's Radeon RX 7900 XT/XTX offerings. While the GeForce RTX 3080 used the same GA102 GPU as the RTX 3090/3090 Ti, NVIDIA has changed that approach with the GeForce 40 series. GeForce RTX 4080 is designed occupy the space below the RTX 4090 in the company's product stack, at a price point of $1200, but still offering performance higher than the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti. Pair that with a sentiment "ASUS = best" for graphics cards, and you've got a winner on your hands. ASUS was smart to keep that color theme, because it instantly validates their product, because for cooling "Noctua = best" in the mind of many people. A lot has been talked about the looks of Noctua products and the opinions cover the whole spectrum from "ugly" to "beautiful." What's undisputed though is that Noctua found a unique color theme that clearly identifies any product as "Noctua"-without any doubt, in the blink of an eye. Visually the RTX 4080 Noctua looks identical to the RTX 3080 Noctua, there's some small changes on the backplate cutouts, but that's about it. People have been speculating about the ASUS/Noctua project ever since GeForce 40 was announced and at CES, both companies announced the ASUS GeForce RTX 4080 Noctua, which I've looked at in this review. A bit later, in May 2022, they released the RTX 3080 Noctua, to expand into the high-end segment. The first result was the RTX 3070 Noctua which confirmed that such an approach can work.
In late 2021, ASUS and Noctua teamed up to start a collaboration that combined the ASUS expertise in graphics card manufacturing with the awesome tech of Noctua's fans. As most of you know I love working with quiet PC components, and the ASUS RTX 4080 Noctua should be perfect for that. This is my tenth GeForce RTX 4080 review, and this time I get to cover a very special card.
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