Performance uplift compared to the 4080S is unfortunately pretty sad. Still performs great and is even better with some oc and power limiting. 24gb vram would have been the right thing, but that'll probably be the super then.

Thermals and noise are fine. A 2.5 or 3 slot cooler with this design would have been absolutely amazing.

Still looks great, 4000 super design was a bit better though.

Grabbed this by pure luck from Best Buy on launch day! Noticeable coil whine when under load. As far as I can tell this is just how it goes with the 4000 series and newer higher-tier cards in the Nvidia stack. I used three different models of 7900 XTX prior to this with a much higher power draw and did not experience coil whine. Not a huge drawback but definitely worth noting.

Small amount of coil-whine under full load, not crazy but could it was present if you were paying attention. Was lucky enough to get one launch day at best buy. Its ridiculous to spend more than MSRP on this card though.

Just got finished overclocking the card to see what it is capable of and its at 100% stability with the core clock at +375 MHZ, yielding about and extra 5-8% FPS. Even finished a speedway run at +450 MHZ but was far from stable at that range. Temps at +375 MHZ were peaking at 70C so (and I'm new to overclocking so not sure about this) but it seems the limiting factor is probably voltage or power delivery. Didn't want to raise those though; I'm not confident enough for that yet.

Planning on undervolting and overclocking for everyday use now.