Firing up the new rally expansion on Forza Horizon 5 shows the impressively rich color on offer here. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not OLED levels of looking at a portrait, but when speeding through the luminous greens and bright shades of the jungle and its plumage in first person, you can be fooled into thinking you’re gazing through the windscreen. All of this comes with the same high-end features ROG Strix cards are known for. An ARGB tail-light works with Aura Sync to offer customized lighting across your build, while two FanConnect II headers allow you to control your case fans with your GPU temperature through our new GPU Tweak III software. For those who don’t want to dig in and tweak too much, the Dual BIOS switch allows you to choose between maximum performance mode and a quieter mode. Though thanks to our 0dB technology, the card will be silent at low loads no matter which mode you choose. Don’t get me wrong. This is a thirsty gaming laptop — like “getting horny on main” levels of thirst, but one thing works to the Strix Scar 16’s favor here. First, it shares the same size 90 WHr cell as the Scar 18, so with a smaller display to power, it should logically last longer. While it could be argued that the RTX 4080 has less power dependency, it sports the same TGP as the 4090, so the differences here would be negligible. ASCEND TO NEW HEIGHTS WITH THE NEW GEFORCE RTX 4090 AND RTX 4080 CARDS FROM ROG STRIX AND TUF GAMING Comments and usernames containing language or concepts that could be deemed offensive will be deleted.

The only thing which I can think of why not to buy this card, is if you have a small or medium sized case, as this card is huge measuring 35cm long. I have a Coolermaster HAF 912, which easily fit this card in and I had no issues with the 16 pin plug cable bending. Asus supply you with a quality made connector which uses three 8 pin plugs from your PSU. I have a Be Quiet PSU installed so bought their own version, which uses only two 8 pin plugs and reduces the amount of cables on show. Now, I could talk about how the Asus ROG Strix Scar 16 is a joy to play games on. Given the amount of pure horsepower under the hood, setup is a cinch across all graphically-intense AAA titles I tested.Right up front, the Nvidia RTX 4070 Ti has a much lower MSRP than the RTX 4080, so the RTX 4080 would seem to have an uphill battle when it comes to price. But that's not the whole story. On a casual day of use, including Chrome, Photoshop and some Spotify listening, the efficiency cores aren’t really doing that much, as I make it through from 9 a.m. to roughly 1 p.m. before I need to plug in or lose my work. That’s considerably longer than my past experiences with gaming laptops, and I’m fairly confident you’ll see that reflected in the impending results.

If your case has three expansion slots (61mm) free and clearance for a card that measures 304mm x 137mm (L x W) you’ll be able to fit a Founders Edition RTX 4080 16GB into your PC. What power supply do I need for an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 16GB?

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The RTX 4080 16GB GPU with its dual AV1 NVIDIA Encoders is an excellent GPU to stream all your favourite titles. How many monitors can I use with a RTX 4080 16GB GPU? The Strix GeForce RTX 4090 was built with the ASUS Auto-Extreme manufacturing process that minimizes human intervention, so users can expect reliable long-term performance right out of the box. The GeForce RTX 4090 heatsink design has been redesigned, with a new vapor chamber and 30% more surface area for heat dissipation than the previous generation ROG Strix GeForce RTX 3090. The patented vapor chamber design adds milled channels underneath the heatpipes, allowing more heat to efficiently transfer to the four 8 mm and three 6 mm heatpipes and travel to the heatsink fins. When subjected to a 500-watt thermal load, this potent pairing allows for 5 °C cooler temperatures than a conventional vapor chamber design. And of course, the switch to Nvidia’s Advanced Optimus makes extracting the best possible performance out of the Scar 16 a cinch. Basically, it’s an automated MUX Switch to connect the display directly to the dGPU through software, and (as the name suggests) HDR.