Galax suddenly introduced the GeForce RTX 4080 Super 3X – a month before the announcement of the RTX 5080

Nvidia’s Ada Lovelace graphics architecture is gradually approaching its decline – the announcement of GeForce RTX 5000 video cards on the new Blackwell architecture is expected next month. However, Nvidia’s partners are in no hurry to abandon the release of new GeForce RTX 40 series accelerators. Galax has decided to introduce the GeForce RTX 4080 Super 3X.

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The 3X series belongs to the manufacturer’s basic solutions, in contrast to the SG, ST or HOF families. The new product offers a minimum of RGB backlighting – only the GeForce RTX logo on the top edge has it. The cooling system itself appears to be borrowed from the SG/ST models. The exception is the new casing.

The RTX 4080 Super is powered by an AD103-400 GPU with 10,240 CUDA cores. The card offers 16 GB of GDDR6X memory with speeds of up to 23 Gbps per pin – the fastest in the entire GeForce RTX 4000 series. However, memory bandwidth, due to the memory bus trimmed to 256 bits, is limited to 736 GB/s, which is a quarter less. than the flagship RTX 4090.

Officially, additional factory overclocking of the GPU is not announced for the Galax GeForce RTX 4080 Super 3X. However, the new product, like most other video cards from Galax, offers one-click overclocking support through the proprietary Xtreme Tuner Plus application. The application contains overclocking profiles for most models of video cards from the manufacturer. Using these profiles will not void the user’s warranty on the accelerator.

The Galax GeForce RTX 4080 Super 3X is expected to go on sale early next month. Nothing is known about the cost of the card.