Tested: Nvidia's GeForce RTX 4080 offers dazzling creator performance, with a catch

The Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080's slow-paced announcement and eventual launch has been… a fascinating road. From its mis-named little brother getting "unlaunched" to the RTX 4080 Founders Edition being the same size as the massive RTX 4090 for some reason, to the melting 12VHPWR power connectors--which are still on this card, yes. Nvidia has quite the PR battle with the $1,200 GeForce RTX 4080, but if you ignore all the noise, does this new card deliver the goods for content creators? Thankfully, performance-wise it does mostly live up to the hype; I just find myself wishing we had higher VRAM capacities on such expensive graphics cards. This review is focused on work, instead of play, similar to my recent RTX 4090 content creation analysis.