Our PNY RTX 4090 testing shows how a non-Founders Edition reference design behaves. It wins in thermals and noise levels and looks nice while doing so, though performance is a wash.
The new GeForce RTX 4080 is clearly impressive, delivering on average 111 fps at 4K across the games we tested. That's 20-30% over previous-gen flagships. That's all.
MicroCenter has released 13 listings of RTX 4080 aftermarket cards online including prices. Prices are not cheap for any of these cards, with flagship models getting very close to RTX 4090 prices