E WERE INCREDIBLY impressed with Nvidia’s Ada Lovelace architecture and the first graphics card to use it, the RTX 4090 (see December 2022, page 74). The 4090 offered massive generational performance gains with only a slight price increase relative to its 3090 predecessor. For the second outing, the RTX 4080 delivers a sizeable increase in performance over the old RTX 3080, but it inherits the substantially higher price point of the RTX 3080 Ti.
