Introduction
Do you have a GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER from 2019 and want to upgrade to the new GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER in 2024 and want to know the performance uplift you will get? In today’s performance comparison review, we are going to compare gaming benchmarks with the GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER versus GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER to find out what upgrading will look like.
Before we begin, we have to acknowledge that the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER and GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER are two very different class of video cards, and are not price comparable, despite the card naming. The GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER’s MSRP at launch was $699, and even if we use the CPI Inflation Calculator, that would be $854.23 in today’s dollars. The GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER launched at a $999 MSRP. Therefore, the GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER today, is $300 more expensive than the original MSRP of the RTX 2080 SUPER, or $145 more expensive than the pricing of the RTX 2080 SUPER in today’s dollars with inflation calculated.
This makes the GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER more expensive than the 2080 SUPER, even with inflation, so this is more of a test of a model-to-model upgrade than it is a direct dollar-to-dollar upgrade. You will have to spend a little more in 2024 to get the RTX 4080 SUPER than you had to in 2019 for the RTX 2080 SUPER.
The goal today is not to look at each video card in terms of what you paid then, compared to what you would pay now. The goal today is simply to look at what a model-to-model upgrade in performance would look like if you chose to move from your GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER to today’s current idea in 2024 of what a GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER is in terms of performance.
The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER was launched in July of 2019 as a refresh to the RTX 20 series Turing architecture-based GPUs that launched in 2018. The GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER was launched at an MSRP of $699, which replaced the GeForce RTX 2080 at the same pricing. If we use the CPI Inflation Calculator that would be around $854.23 today.
The GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER is based on the TU104 GPU die with 48 SMs, 3,072 CUDA Cores, 64 ROPs, 192 Texture Units, 384 Tensor Cores, and 48 RT Cores. The Boost Clock is 1815MHz. It has 8GB of GDDR6 on a 256-bit bus at 15.5Gbps providing 496GB/s of bandwidth. The TGP is 250W.
The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER, much like the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER replaces its RTX xx80 class card at the same price point. The GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER was launched in January of 2024 as a replacement in price point for the GeForce RTX 4080 Ada Lovelace architecture-based GPU that launched in 2023. The GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER was launched at an MSRP of $999, which replaced the GeForce RTX 4080 at the same pricing.
The GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER is based on the AD103 GPU die with 80 SMs, 10,240 CUDA Cores, 112 ROPs, 320 Texture Units, 320 Tensor Cores, and 80 RT Cores. The Boost Clock is 2550MHz. It has 16GB of GDDR6X on a 256-bit bus at 23Gbps providing 716GB/s of bandwidth. The TGP is 320W.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Specifications
| Specification | GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER | GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture | Ada Lovelace | Turing |
| SMs | 80 | 48 |
| GPU Cores | 10240 CUDA Cores | 3072 CUDA Cores |
| ROPs | 112 | 64 |
| Tensor Cores | 320 | 384 |
| Ray Tracing Cores | 80 | 48 |
| Boost Clock | 2550MHz | 1815MHz |
| Memory | 16GB GDDR6X | 8GB GDDR6 |
| Memory Clock | 23Gbps | 15.5Gbps |
| TDP/TBP | 320W | 250W |
| MSRP | $999 | $699 |
