PNY GeForce RTX 4080 XLR8 OC: the RTX 4080 to buy — if you must
PNY GeForce RTX 4080 XLR8 OC: Two-minute review The PNY GeForce RTX 4080 XLR8 has a lot of things going for it, but one of those is not that it's something other than an RTX 4080. In my Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080 review , I found that the Founders Edition card had excellent performance, and the same is true with PNY's XLR8 OC version. In fact, its performance is slightly better, on average, than the base reference model thanks to this card being overclocked and having some third-party extras that the Nvidia reference card lacks. While the underlying GPU architecture and memory between the two are the same — so you get the same number of SMs, RT cores, Tensor cores, and the like, as well as 16GB GDDR6X VRAM — you do get faster clock speeds with the XLR8 OC card. The base clock speed is the same, but the boost clock is about 2% faster, while the memory clock speed is about 3% faster. (Image credit: Future / John Loeffler) Toss in some RGB lighting (if that's your ...