According to a Tweet posted by leaker @kopite7kimi earlier this morning, the estimated performance of Nvidia’s upcoming RTX 4080 and RTX 4070 GPUs in 3DMark’s TimeSpy Extreme benchmark looks incredibly promising. Projections say the RTX 4080 will be faster than the RTX 3090 Ti, and the RTX 4070 will be just as fast as the RTX 3080 10GB — one of the Best GPUs on the market.

As usual, take these results with a grain of salt. In fact, Kopite says they aren’t fully confident in the data points shared, but the leaker has a stellar record for accuracy. However, these performance figures could change at a later date.

For reference, Kopite had already shared RTX 4090 TimeSpy Extreme data a week ago, which indicates GPU performance to be around 30% quicker than the fastest performing RTX 3090 Ti’s overclocked on liquid cooling.

As a result, Kopite’s RTX 4080 data isn’t all that shocking. Kopite believes the RTX 4080 will hit a very impressive TimeSpy Extreme graphics score of 15,000 points, a touch faster than the RTX 3090 Ti at normal frequencies. In TimeSpy Extreme specifically, this data makes the RTX 4080 40% to 50% faster than its predecessor, the RTX 3080 10GB, which is a massive generational improvement. If GPU prices for the 4080 are remotely similar to the 3080, customers will be getting a very powerful graphics card for the money.

The 4070 estimations aren’t as impressive, but it is still a healthy gen-on-gen improvement nonetheless (if true). Kopite believes the RTX 4070 will hit 10,000 points in TimeSpy Extreme, which coincides perfectly with most of the RTX 3080 10GB results on 3DMark’s browser. Compared to the 3070, this translates into a 25% performance improvement and performance equal to that of the RTX 3080.

Kopites data shows us that Nvidia's RTX 40 series architecture will be a monster -- and for the RTX 4090 and 4080 in particular, it will almost certainly bring record-shattering generational performance improvements. Still, it will come at the cost of power consumption. The biggest unknown now is GPU pricing, which could swing in any direction depending on shortage issues and the 40-series release date. Performance is only so good if you can get it at a good value.