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After RTX4090, the major AIC manufacturers have begun to launch RTX4080 graphics cards suitable for a wider range of people, compared with public graphics cards, they tend to be more personalized and extreme in ID design and performance stack. Recently, CTOnews.com got Yingchi's first RTX4080 16GB Star Yao OC graphics card. As a representative card of the white system, the appearance of the Star Yao series has been online all the time, so how does it perform this time?

To better reflect its level of performance, CTOnews.com will be tested with the following configuration:

The appearance of the ID design is different from the public version of the RTX4080. Although the RTX4080 16GB Star Yao OC has changed to a three-slot design, it is still slightly over the shoulder, but it is still thinner than the RTX4090. In the design language, the overall shape of Yingchi RTX4080 16GB star accolade OC is more square, and the lines are stronger, and only the oblique trimming design is done in the four corners to enhance the outline.

The TGP power consumption of the RTX4080 16GB star accolade OC graphics card is 320W, and the transfer cable attached in the package has been changed to three 8 Pin to 16 Pin transfer cables. considering the volume and weight of the graphics card, Yingchi is also equipped with an ARGB graphics card support rod kit, which is also painted in pure white. there are not only two BOOMSTAR Logo on the surface of the acrylic shell, but also irregular crystal decoration.

The front of Yingchi RTX4080 16GB Star Yao OC graphics card retains the family design language of black and white collision color, pure white painted metal armor, covered with a transparent shell with diamond cutting design, not only has a more layered feel, but also looks like crystal in general, and the top cover is removable, supporting individual DIY, each player can customize his own unique appearance.

In the back part, Yingchi RTX4080 16GB Star Yao OC adopts integrated die-casting process, and the hollowed-out part not only brings a highly recognizable star Yao decorative pattern, but also ensures the heat dissipation performance, and the white spraying treatment with screen printing process further improves the texture of the product. 3 high-specification fans with diameter 102mm and thickness 20mm, each fan has 11 static frost blades, the wind is stronger and the wind volume is larger.

The exposed part of the graphics card of Yingchi RTX4080 16GB Star Yao OC can see the huge heat dissipation grille. The built-in Xingzhuo III heat dissipation system has 4 * Φ 8mm × 5* Φ 6mm nickel-plated composite heat pipe, large area high-efficiency soaking plate and fin, combined with reflow soldering process to bring stronger heat dissipation performance, alloy reinforcement can also effectively prevent the deformation of the graphics card and ensure the normal use of the graphics card.

At the same time, the side part of the RTX4080 16GB star accolade OC is also semi-wrapped, and the extension of the back plate is printed with a black GEFORCE RTX logo.

The metal I / O bezel part provides a standard 3*DP1.4a interface + 1*HDMI2.1 interface, which can support a display with a resolution of up to 8K.

It is worth mentioning that the effect of Shadow RTX4080 16GB Star Yao OC after installation is very good. The logo on the front will turn on the RGB effect, and there will be a circle of RGB effect on the side.

The lighting effect of the fan side is more beautiful, due to the frosted translucent fan design of RTX4080 16GB Star Yao OC, the fan RGB light will be softer, less dazzling but bright, and the color transition will be more natural, together with a pure white card body, giving people a very advanced feeling.

Simple technical analysis Yingchi RTX4080 16GB star accolade OC is based on a new generation of NVIDIA Ada Lovelace architecture AD103 core, using TSMC 4N process, 9728 CUDA cores, 304Tensor cores and 112ROP units. Compared with the public version of RTX4080, this card also uses 18-inch 3-phase luxury power supply and 12-layer high-specification PCB, which surpasses the public version configuration and has better electrical performance.

The video memory of Yingchi RTX4080 16GB Star Yao OC has been upgraded to the 16GB GDDR6X type, and the bit width of the video memory is 256-bit. The biggest advantage of the large video memory is that it no longer worries about the explosion of video memory in the game, and the productivity creation is more optimized. 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 scary.

The third-generation RTX Cores benefits from Ada's new flagship architecture, which can improve light pursuit performance by up to 2 times. NVIDIA DLSS 3 has also fully evolved, adding frame generation technology compared to DLSS 2, which can predict frame-to-frame motion changes, achieve AI frame insertion, and achieve higher frame rates while maintaining image quality. These technologies are naturally better than gamers, and the performance of RTX4080 in the next generation of games is expected.

RTX4080 has shader capabilities up to 83TFLOPS and twice the throughput of the previous generation. The fourth-generation Tensor Cores can increase the throughput by four times to 1.4 TensorMurtaFLOPSMagi AI performance to two times. Dual NVIDIA encoders also support AV1 coding, which is 40% more efficient than H.264. Game anchors, video calls and video creative workers can all enjoy the improvement in picture quality and efficiency.

In terms of energy efficiency, the power consumption ratio can be increased by up to 2 times through the TSMC4N customization process. The preset power consumption of the RTX4080 16GB accolade OC is 320W, which is consistent with the RTX 3080 10G version, but considering the huge improvement in performance, the advantage of energy efficiency ratio will be more prominent.

After the technical part of the theoretical performance test, it is the turn of the real knife and gun to be measured. First of all, we test the baking machine and bake the doughnut for 15 minutes. The core temperature is stable at 61.6 ℃, which is 3 ℃ lower than the public version of GTX4080 on the same test platform, the power consumption is kept at 320W, and the fan speed is only 38%, so the machine is very quiet when running.

In the 3D Mark stress test, the final score of Yingchi RTX4080 16GB accolade OC graphics card is 99.6%, the performance release is stable, and it easily passes the qualified rate of 97%.

In the 3D Mark individual test, first of all, in the Time Spy test that reflects the performance of DX12 games, the score of Yingchi RTX4080 16GB Star Yao OC graphics card reached 26622. As a comparison, the public version of RTX4080 on the same test platform scored 26552 points, GeForce RTX 3080 10G version 17306 points, RTX 3090 18981 points, and RTX 3090Ti 21862 points. Yingchi RTX4080 16GB star accolade OC graphics card leads the RTX30 system in an all-round way, and also slightly surpasses the public version of RTX4080.

In the FireStrike test that reflects the performance of DX11 games, the graphics card score of Yingchi RTX4080 16GB Star Yao OC reached 55001. As a comparison, the public version of the same test platform scored 53379 points, GeForce RTX 3080 10G version 40932 points, GeForce RTX 3090 scores 46045 points, GeForce RTX 3090Ti 52630 points, 4K resolution playing 3A games is no longer a problem.

In the 3DMark Portal Royal light pursuit test, the shadow RTX4080 16GB star accolade OC scored 17264 points, an increase of about 50% over the GeForce RTX 3080, and the improvement was greater than the grating performance.

The performance of Yingchi RTX4080 16GB star accolade OC graphics card in the theoretical running score is absolutely shocking. We have made a comparison table of GPU physical scores, which has a significant improvement compared with the previous generations of flagship graphics cards in all projects.

Although the theoretical performance of NVIDIA DLSS 3 parsing has surpassed that of all RTX 30 series graphics cards, the really big boost is DLSS 3 technology. DLSS 3 is a new optical flow accelerator driven by the new fourth generation Tensor Core and GeForce RTX 40 series GPU, performance multiplier technology based on AI technology, the latest version of NVIDIA deep learning supersampling technology, and groundbreaking optical frame generation technology, will usher in a new era of NVIDIA RTX neural network rendering games and applications.

The optical flow accelerator based on NVIDIA Ada Lovelace architecture can analyze two consecutive game images and calculate the motion vector data of objects and elements from frame to frame without the need for traditional game engine modeling. The frame generation model acquires both motion vector and optical flow data in the game engine, which greatly reduces the visual anomalies of AI when rendering elements such as particles, reflections, shadows and lights.

To put it simply, in the past, DLSS 2 improved the image quality and the number of frames by rendering a low-resolution image, and then AI zoomed in to high resolution. While the new DLSS 3 is compatible with DLSS 2, it also adds a frame generation function, which can insert a new frame calculated by AI between two real frames to double the number of frames. Combined with the super-resolution function of DLSS 2, AI can reconstruct up to 7/8 display pixels, and the game performance can be up to four times better than without DLSS!

So let's also take a look at the performance of the new card through actual measurement. The latest version of 3DMark has been adapted to DLSS 3's BenchMark. We can directly see the difference between the test results of RTX4080 16GB accolade OC and the control variables of DLSS 2.

After the measurement of CTOnews.com, in DLSS 2 mode, the average frame number of Yingchi RTX4080 16GB accolade OC is 98.51 frames, which is roughly 2.5 times higher than that without DLSS 2.

With the launch of the latest DLSS 3, the average number of frames of the RTX4080 16GB accolade OC has further increased to 126.92 frames, which is roughly 3.3 times higher than that without DLSS 2.

Of course, the biggest problem with the new technology is whether it can adapt to new games quickly. Obviously, NVIDIA has done a very good job in this respect. Not only is the first DLSS 3 game lineup very luxurious, but as long as it is adapted to DLSS 3, it will be downwards compatible with DLSS 2, which will greatly reduce the difficulty of adaptation for developers and maximize the benefits of players. This time, we selected "Cyberpunk 2077", "Super Human", "memory of Light: infinite" and "reincarnation of Life and death" and other games that have adapted to DLSS 3 to test the RTX4080 16GB accolade OC.

First of all, in the new book "Super Human" by PUBG developer Blue Hole, there is a clear distinction between the number of frames in each gear of DLSS. After opening the DLSS 3 performance file, the number of frames has increased by 60% compared with that without DLSS, directly from 4K smooth running to 4K high frame play.

In "Cyberpunk: 2077", which is a great test of GPU performance, we carry out our own BenchMark test under the highest picture quality of 4K Super Light pursuit. From the results, it does put a lot of pressure on GPU performance. When DLSS is fully off, the number of frames is only 75, while after opening DLSS 3 and selecting a performance file, the number of frames increases to 93 frames, an increase of 24%.

In the domestic game "reincarnation of Life and death", the performance gear of DLSS 3 can also bring a 55% increase in the number of frames compared with that of DLSS. So if you have an 8K display device, you can also try it with a challenge.

The game "reincarnation of life and death" pays great attention to the performance of the light pursuit effect. When the DLSS 3 is turned on and off, the projection of the ground puddle is obviously different. The DLSS 3 is basically a perfect reflection of the buildings on the street, while when there is no DLSS, there is only the projection of the characters.

In addition to "reincarnation of Life and death", "memory of Light: infinity" is also a highly expressive game. In the actual test of DLSS 3, after opening the DLSS 3 performance file, the number of frames increased significantly, up to 108%.

In the recent popular and excellent picture quality 3A game "Plague Legend: Requiem", the performance of DLSS 3 has been improved by as much as 3 times, and DLSS 3 can give play to huge advantages for games with more complex materials and textures.

Game delay testing, of course, the essence of DLSS 3 technology is that AI generates new frames, so it is bound to bring the side effect of increased delay. For games that require high precision, ms-level delay differences will also affect the player's experience and feel. So 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 frame.

Let's take the above Plague Legend: Requiem as an example, after opening DLSS 3 and opening Reflex, the delay reduces the 6ms.

In addition to the games that support DLSS 3, CTOnews.com also tested the performance of some FPS competitive PC games and DLSS 2-only games. For example, in the game "Watchman: return", the NVIDIA Reflex low latency option is provided, which enables CPU to start submitting rendering work to GPU before the previous frame is completed, thus greatly reducing or even eliminating the rendering queue and faster response time. After testing, the delay is reduced by half when the enhanced Reflex option is turned on.

In the very good graphics optimization "Tomb Raider: shadow", it is measured that the BenchMark that comes with running the game at the highest resolution of 4K can run to 137frames, which is basically enough for the display of 4K / 144Hz to play.

Tomb Raider: shadow supports DLSS 2, and when enabled, the number of frames can be increased by up to 79%.

Finally, in the old game "Control: ultimate", which compares the performance of graphics cards, the number of game frames brought by DLSS 2 has doubled, and the 4K light chase can not run to 60 frames without DLSS, but after opening it, it can basically reach the level of e-sports. After some testing, Yingchi RTX4080 16GB Star Yao OC has no problem with 4K games, and it is definitely a handy game tool for gamers.

Creative production test I extracted the key words of the RTX40 graphics card in professional creative production, they are large video memory, high throughput, new decoding, strong AI. With these technical upgrades, RTX4080 graphics cards are sure to bring greater efficiency and potential in creative production and deep learning. By installing the NVIDIA Studio driver, you can support more than 75 creative software to call the AI computing power of the NVIDIA CUDA core.

In modeling and rendering software, GeForce RTX 4080 16G can use CUDA to provide hardware acceleration for work. At present, almost all modeling software will optimize the GPU of NVIDIA, so it can achieve the coexistence of efficiency, stability and compatibility. For example, in the commonly used rendering tool V-Ray, you can use RTX accelerated ray tracing to achieve high-performance final frame rendering. With the noise reduction feature of AI, GPU can further speed up interactive rendering.

In V-Ray Benchmark, Yingchi RTX4080 16GB accolade OC scored 3081 points, which can handle most of the modeling and rendering needs.

Thanks to Ada's new flagship architecture, the performance of light chase has been greatly improved, and the score of RTX4080 16GB star accolade OC in V-Ray GPU RTX has increased to 4208 points, even the high rendering pressure of real-time light chase can be handled calmly.

Another rendering software Octane, we can test RTX accelerated ray tracing and OptiX noise reduction with AI to achieve fast interactive rendering comprehensive performance, the software provides us with a good benchmark, a performance benchmark is a piece of GTX980. Yingchi RTX4080 16GB star accolade OC in this test, the performance of different sub-items is roughly equivalent to 4.5-20 GTX980, the improvement is very obvious.

In addition, dual NVIDIA encoders support AV1 coding. AV1 is the next generation video coding technology, which can provide faster video coding and higher quality streaming media transmission performance while occupying the same space. This encoding format is already very common in mainstream multimedia applications. For example, domestic editing software clipping professional version already supports AV1 video encoder acceleration, as well as OBS live streaming software, which also supports NVENC AV1 coding recording.

The trend of AV1 is not only the result of technological advances, but also the pain point of the industry's demand for productivity, which is to significantly compress the size of video files while ensuring that the image quality is almost unaffected.

We also carried out a simple test, through the editing professional version of the software to use H264 and AV1 these two different coding to export the same video material. In the end, the file size encoded by H264 is 19.3MB, while the file size encoded by AV1 is only 13.3MB, and the size has been reduced by 32%, but there is no difference in image quality.

Finally, there is the rendering test of PugetBench For Davinci. GPU acceleration effects based on NVIDIA CUDA technology can achieve faster real-time video editing and frame rendering, and the output speed using NVIDIA coding can be increased by up to 5 times. Yingchi RTX4080 16GB Star Yao OC scored 2620 on the test, and 8K video clips no longer need to be an agent.

High-end products such as graphics cards and CPU have always been trapped by the laws of physics, and people tend to worry about the performance stagnation that will occur after the physical limits of the process and process are reached. However, through the attack of AI technology and machine learning, NVIDIA has ripped open another exit in front of the laws of physics, which is my biggest feeling after testing the RTX4080 16GB accolade OC.

Whether real-time ray tracing, DLSS or frame insertion, the performance of each generation can be greatly improved in terms of software and technology alone, the multiplication of game frames, and the subversion of rendering efficiency is shocking for ordinary players and exciting for the industry and developers. Make full use of the extraordinary AI computing power of RTX 40 series GPU, it is believed that it will provide unlimited possibilities and opportunities for the next generation.

For players and creative design-related personnel, Yingchi RTX4080 16GB Star Yao OC is not just a simple graphics performance output tool, it has a unique personality in the graphics card category of avant-garde design, rare pure white style painting, in the DIY installation machine and desktop can bring you high appearance and advanced beauty, and performance I believe that after watching the evaluation of you can realize its power, especially 4K high-frame games and 8K video rendering. In short, starting with RTX4080 16GB accolade OC can make your gaming and office experience one step at a time.

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