Nvidia RTX 4080 Graphics Card Review

Power

Now power is an interesting one, as not all of the cards are equal in that sense and when it comes to the reference spec of 320 Watts, three of the cards conform to that which are the FE from NVIDIA, the iCHILL X3 from INNO3D, and the MSI SuprimX, while the Palit and Gigabyte cards all come with a default power of 340 Watts, therefore sacrificing a small amount of efficiency, in exchange for some free performance.

When looking at the max power of each card, that differs too, with the Inno3D card not having any adjustment to its power limit, while the Founders card gives you the ability to crank things up to 110%, resulting in a 355 Watt max power level while the Palit, Gigabyte and MSI cards all have the ability to increase the power limit beyond that, maxing out at 400 Watts. Again, what this means for overclocking, we can find out a little later on.