★★★★★Hefty and attractive piece that games with the best of 'em
I'll be honest; I picked this variant of the 4080 Super as at the time I purchased it, it was the only model available close to MSRP. But I'm glad enough I did. This thing's been rock solid with respectable temperatures. It's a bit weighty as the cooling shroud is metal along with the backplate. I appreciate that this thing allows air to pass through the card at the far end, like the nVidia Founders models do. I appreciate the extra airflow and my RAM does as well. It comes with a 2x8-Pin PCIE connector converter to the newer PCIE 12VHPWR needed to power the card. I'm sure it's fine, but I haven't used it. I'm using a BeQuiet! 12V-2x6 cable directly from my power supply to power it. 12V-2x6 is a slightly newer and safer backward-compatible version of the 12VHPWR connector that helps with melting connector problems. The 4080s don't have the same melting reports that the 4090 does, but the PSU cable was worth the $20 piece of mind. I didn't notice much card "sag" when installed in my Lian Li 215. Regardless, I am using the (also included) kick stand to reduce the sag and equalize some pressure that's exerted on the PCIE slot. It's pretty simple to use, but it's length might not be long enough to reach the card in larger cases, or older mid-towers that don't have a shroud or compartment for the PSU. It's decently quiet as well. I'm running it in a system quite close to my bed's headboard. During the Winter with no fans running in the room, at idle, I can only tell a computer is on if I concentrate, Under gaming loads, there's a faint sound I can notice, but I'm not sure if it's the GPU or CPU cooler making the noise. It disappears with even the faintest of game volume though, so good enough for me. The temps are fine. It might not be quite as good at overclocking as some triple-axial 3.5-slot monstrosities, but manually overclocking GPUs isn't super useful for the average joe these days. Cards overclock themselves by design, and you only really have limited access to power targets and memory speeds anyway. Gains can be had, but only a few percent in trades of much more heat and noise, which just isn't going to make or break a gaming experience. A boost clock of 2600MHz is pretty much sustained for me as long as enough of the GPU is being utilized. If you want an attractive designed card that offers passthrough airflow and the nVidia Founders card isn't available (let's face it, it NEVER is) this is a good choice. Like I said early on, when I went looking, this was the closest card to MSRP that was available. That might not be the case for you so shop around.
Gerald Loffelbein · 2024-05-27 · via amazon
★★★★★It is a great card, and its fast.
I bought this because i wanted a quality graphics card. The look and the new style (comparable to the Founders Edition) are just a really nice touch to me. Im impressed with this graphics card, It can get a little hot when going over 100% power limit. But thats to be expected with a 2 fan card with aluminum enclosure. idle Temps were in the 40s. I have no concern because this is normal for this card. Currently using studio drivers but more gaming than anything. Very fast, although my CPU cant keep up in most games that are cpu bound because its so fast meaning im not even using the most of the GPU in 4k with a 12700k OC’d to 5ghz 3600mhz 16cl RAM. Also, boost clock stock is pretty decent for not being an OC model. Can get a decent OC with this card and if you set a fan curve, the thermals will be much better. Very nice design it feels like a collectors card even the box looks premium. I will be purchasing from MSI from now on since EVGA isnt making graphics cards anymore. (sadly) Edited: Please make sure you have enough space in your case for this GPU as it needs a full size case to close.. unless you get a Cablemod Stealth sense cable adapter. Also, beware of bending the Nvidia adapter that comes with the card as i was getting blank screens trying to cable manage the default adapter.. best if you have a PCIE 5.0 PSU. I switched to a cablemod stealth sense 12vhp 3x8pin adapter all was good and the card was running like it should. I have a Lian Li 011D full size case and it fits but your case might be too small if its a MID size tower.
Kelsey S · 2024-05-09 · via amazon
★★★★★Never failed and still trucking
I had this for just a year now and never had any serious issues with this piece. During my PC cleaning it still barely collected any dust or filth. Pros: Can basically run anything from gaming to graphic design. Has a little stand to keep the weight from breaking the card (My PC has the Motherboard flipped where the back end of the out ports are facing the sky). Has two fans on either side plus a large heat sink to keep it overall cooled. Cons: I would say if you play a game with ray tracing it can do it but the fans on max will be pretty loud. If you're keeping the fans on max it can get your room and tower pretty heated. Luckily people who would get this either know what they're doing and maintain the heat levels pretty easily. Even after playing Cyberpunk on max settings this GPU still looks new and performs as if I just bought it.
Nash · 2025-06-18 · via amazon
★★★★★Satisfied
I bought this card several months ago. It's lived up to expectations and endures a pretty heavy workload of video editing 4k footage in Davinci, Premiere, After Effects, 3D work in Maya, sculpting in Z Brush, gaming in 4K even for new AAA titles. If I need extra FPS I just throw on DLSS or run the game in 1440p to fill out my 240hz OLED. Really quiet card, which stays cool and silent most of the time. I've been happy with this card since day one, although it was scary buying it before there were any reviews... I'm glad to see many other satisfied owners.
Iria · 2025-01-09 · via amazon
★★★★★Easy to clean, great performance, needs rear support.
So far it's kicking some serious fps butt. I went from a 3070ti to the 3090ti (which im still favoring except for power consumption and heat production) to the 4070ti and now settling on this. Rolling off of 24 gigs to 16 is tough. I'm a huge fan of head room. I never use more than half of any of my resources so to watch some instances where i see vram creep up to 10 gigs whilst multi-tasking is a little cringy for me but with the right dosage of phuckitol, i manage. My only gripe so far is that even though it's vertically mounted in my case and secured to the rear panel via 2 screws, it's heavy enough to sag itself out of the pci-e slot so it needs rear support. I had 3 instances where my computer told me to eff off before I figured out what was happening.
