System Overview & Testing Procedures
We will be testing the ASUS ROG Strix RTX 4080 Super OC in our graphics card test bench, which is made up of the following components:
Processor: Intel Core i9-12900K
Video Card: ASUS ROG Strix RTX 4080 Super OC
Motherboard: ASUS ROG Maximus Z690 Hero
Memory: Patriot Viper Venom DDR5-6200 32GB
Storage: Lexar NM800 Pro NVMe Solid State Drive
Power: Corsair HX1200i
Cooling: be quiet! Pure Loop 360mm
Case: BC1 Open Benchtable
Opening up GPU-Z we can verify the speeds of the card.
We will be comparing against the following cards…
– MSI GeForce RTX 4090 Suprim
– MSI GeForce RTX 4080 Gaming X Trio
– MSI GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Suprim X
– GALAX GeForce RTX 4070 EX Gamer
– MSI RTX 4070 Ventus 3X
– Zotac RTX 4070 Trinity
– PNY GeForce RTX 4060 Ti Verto 8GB
– Sapphire Radeon RX 7600 XT Pulse
– ZOTAC GAMING GeForce RTX 4060 Twin Edge OC
– ZOTAC GeForce RTX 3090 Trinity
– MSI GeForce RTX 3080 Gaming X Trio
– MSI GeForce RTX 3060 Gaming X Trio
Benchmarking Information
We have an entire benchmarking suite to test these cards to their full potential. Games will be run at 1080p, 1440p and 4K resolutions. Our benchmarking suite also includes synthetic tests as well.
Synthetic Tests
3DMark
– Time Spy
– Time Spy Extreme
– Fire Strike Ultra
UNIGINE SuperPosition Benchmark
– 1080p Extreme Benchmark
– 4K Optimized Becnhmark
Game Tests
Borderlands 3
Cyberpunk 2077
F1 2066
Far Cry 6
Metro Exodus
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
Watch Dogs: Legion
Ray Tracing Testing & DLSS
Cyberpunk 2077
Far Cry 6
3DMark DLSS Feature Test
Other Tests
Power Consumption
– GPU-Z Board Power Reading
Temperatures
– GPU-Z GPU Temperature Reading
Noise Level
– RisePro Sound Level Meter
Now let’s get to testing!
