As a product, the RTX 4080 is a solid gen-on-gen upgrade - around 50% faster than a 3080 and 35% up on a 3080 Ti. However, with this in mind, the pricing is way too high for the performance you get - and some benchmarks actually show the RTX 4090 offering better value overall.
Get interactive performance graphing in our Digital Foundry at Eurogamer review: https://www.eurogamer.net/digitalfoundry-2022-nvidia-geforce-rtx-4080-review-a-powerful-gpu-with-a-big-pricing-problem
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00:01:00 Physical Form-Factor: Just Like RTX 4090
00:01:38 RTX 4080 vs RTX 4090 vs RTX 4070 Ti
00:02:29 Why Pricing is Such An Issue
00:04:06 Power Efficiency vs RTX 2080/RTX 3080
00:04:56 Game Performance Intro
00:05:38 That Weird Nvidia Plague Tale Benchmark
00:06:51 Reductive GPU Perf Differentials
00:07:17 Ray Tracing Performance
00:13:35 Ray Tracing + DLSS Performance
00:16:35 Rasterisation Performance
00:22:19 And Now, The Conclusion
00:26:30 Outroduction - Bell-Ringing, DF Supporter Program
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