RTX 4080 Super vs PS5: how does Nvidia's superstar compare to PlayStation's flagship?

We've had a look at the key differences between the RTX 4080 Super and the PS5, so have a look at what we think.

[Number1TailzFan]

AFAIK this Super refresh isn't really all that good, in fact most of the regular 4000 series cards were poor price to performance unless you splashed out on the top end 4090, there were also a couple of deals with vouchers going around some months back making some 4090's only a bit more expensive than a 4080. The new generation of cards are also due later this year or early next year and these refreshes are not looking all that good IMO. Unless of course a good deal turns up.

Next generation will likely make just about all of the cards below a 4080 look quite poor, unless Nvidia keeps pricing high again which they may well do.

[VincentVanBro]

5% increase to CUDA cores vs standard 4080, but a reduction in price from $1200 to $1000 is welcome. It was mostly a price correction w/ a small bonus to core count.

[KeeseToast]

It is now much closer in price to AMD's 7900XTX. 4080 and 7900XTX are usually on par when it comes to shader-based performance, while the 4080 offers much higher RT performance and the benefit of Nvidia's proprietary and more advanced upscaling techniques.
This means that AMD might lower the price of their flagship GPU which hopefully brings down pricing of all mid-range GPUs below it.

[Sonic1881]

"The new generation of cards are also due later this year or early next year"

I'm hearing they're going to be push pack to Q2 2025 which can be from April to May release. I hope it's just a rumor

[anast]

"the PS5 as its price-to-performance can’t really be beaten."

[peppeaccardo]

Another of those articles in which after many lines of specs, numbers and mumbo-jumbo, states the obviuous conclusion: if u want an all in one system to play go for the PS5 otherwise if you have time and money get the 4080 super and build ur own PC. ... a joke !

[EvertonFC]

I watched someone play star citizen the other day with a beast of a system and they still had to put it on low/medium settings 😂🤣
Imagine having a £2000 plus rig and the games stuttering everytime you open a door etc.

[EvertonFC]

To those who disagreed, watch a YouTube video of it and there is more than one out there.
You wouldn't think people on here knew videos and the internet exist.

[KeeseToast]

What is your point here? Star Citizen isn't available on any other system. I'm definitely not a fan of SC and especially their monetization, but there is no doubt that they are pushing a ton of technical boundaries and developing systems for stuff like gameplay, physics, planetary rendering completely from scratch.
SC seems far from being finished so ofc it is gonna run bad even on a high end system.

You could have made a much more valid point with talking about some of the atrocious ports that PC has received this year. Some of those have shader-compilation or traversal stutters that even the most high-end systems in the future won't be able to fix. In those cases console gaming is by far the best choice for a lot of gamers today.

[Zenzuu]

What a stupid pointless article.

[SPEAKxTHExTRUTH]

Why even make these kinds of comparisons?

[ChasterMies]

On price, not so good.

On stand-alone performance, terrible. The PS5 is plug and play but the RTX 4080 Super needs an entire computer built around it.

[Schriefer9]

It doesn’t compare at all. One is a pc component one is a console. If want to just play newer games no fuss buy a PS5. If you would like a high end pc for whatever buy a 4080 super. If they comparing graphics not really fair either. Obviously a high end gpu has more power than a console. And more cost.

[z2g]

well... its more powerful... by a lot. that's how. I have two 4090s in my pc (mostly for 3D work but I can still game) and if the 4080 is even in the ballpark of the 4090 it blows my ps5 and series x out of the water in terms of performance. like... 4k 60 fps with all the settings cranked isn't really a problem. don't need to make any sacrifices like the consoles do.

[Extermin8or3_]

Just a shame half of new releases will probably stutter unless you have massive caches because of differences in architecture between console and ocean atm meaning sometimes assets are more directly accessible in memory and mostly because direct x is absolute shit and has serious shader compliation issues associated with it, particularly on oc because the shader complication is different for every different hardware configuration.

[wesnytsfs]

It will always be the same. If you want ease and convivence a console is you answer. On Computer its takes more setup and money but you get better graphics and frame rates. All depends on what you prefer,

[Ironmike]

Iam more than happy with what ps5 dose

[DivineHand125]

Not sure what the point of this article is because the 4080 came out 2 years after the PS5 launched at twice the price and the price-to-performance ratio on the 40 series cards is well known to be bad.

This is enough to tell me that unless the 4080 gets a price cut, the price to performance ratio of the PS5 will be significantly better than a PC built with the 4080. A PC built with a 4080 is also expected to have much better performance for gaming than a PS5 for those who have the budget for it.

[Espangerish]

If all you care about price per frame sure ps5 is best. If you want best quality and performance the 4080 is streets ahead.

[ProjectVulcan]

We know now PS5 is like a 2070 Super. Why compare a discrete card generations newer, multiple times more powerful with the price reflecting that

[Profchaos]

Comparing consoles to GPUs is always a bit like apples to oranges. So comparison between a next gen 4080 super and a now 3 year old console is just weird it's like comparing the PS4 to the ps5.

Developers generally work on console hardware for 7 to 10 years sometimes more so they learn how to optimise for that system specifically and generally a console player can expect support for their console far longer than a PC player with a GPU

as an example PS4 came out in 2013 so did the GTX 780 PS4 is still supported to this day but the GTX 780 hasn't was being phased out between 2015 to 2017.

Now in terms of power for the first 2 or 3 years of a GPU lifecycle it will wipe the floor compared to the console until developers stop optimising for it and push the next gen card.

It used to be affordable to update a GPU every 3 to 4 years but those days are long gone.

And we've only talked about one aspect of the PC there's storage, ram and CPU that also need to be updated for modern gaming.

[repsahj]

comparing 2020 vs 2024?

[XBManiac]

Conclusion: If you want to play on PC without selling a liver, buy AMD.