Best CPUs for NVIDIA RTX 4080 Super

The correction to the 4080, with slightly more silicon and a considerably more reasonable price. Of every Ada card, this is the one we would happily sit behind a 4K panel. Its shortfall is featural rather than physical: Blackwell's newer frame generation does not run here, and on a card this expensive that omission stings more than the raw numbers suggest.

Ranked below: 15 CPUs against the NVIDIA RTX 4080 Super at 1440p, balanced pairings first, then by bottleneck %.

1

AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D

Score: 99/100Socket: AM5$415

Balanced ~8%Buy on AmazonNewegg

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GPU

~FPS 1440p:75Ultra|108Bal|149Perf

2

Ryzen 7 9850X3D

Score: 99/100Socket: AM5$484

Balanced ~8%Buy on AmazonNewegg

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GPU

~FPS 1440p:75Ultra|108Bal|149Perf

3

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2

Score: 99/100Socket: AM5$899

Balanced ~8%Buy on AmazonNewegg

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GPU

~FPS 1440p:75Ultra|108Bal|149Perf

4

AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D

Score: 98/100Socket: AM5$340

Balanced ~7%Buy on AmazonNewegg

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GPU

~FPS 1440p:75Ultra|108Bal|149Perf

5

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D

Score: 98/100Socket: AM5$569

Balanced ~7%Buy on AmazonNewegg

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GPU

~FPS 1440p:75Ultra|108Bal|149Perf

6

AMD Ryzen 9 9900X3D

Score: 97/100Socket: AM5$510

Balanced ~6%Buy on AmazonNewegg

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GPU

~FPS 1440p:75Ultra|108Bal|149Perf

7

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X

Score: 97/100Socket: AM5$500

Balanced ~6%Buy on AmazonNewegg

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~FPS 1440p:75Ultra|108Bal|149Perf

8

Intel Core i9-14900K

Score: 96/100Socket: LGA1700$500

Balanced ~5%Buy on AmazonNewegg

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GPU

~FPS 1440p:75Ultra|108Bal|149Perf

9

Intel Core i9-14900KF

Score: 96/100Socket: LGA1700$470

Balanced ~5%Buy on AmazonNewegg

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GPU

~FPS 1440p:75Ultra|108Bal|149Perf

10

Intel Core i9-14900KS

Score: 96/100Socket: LGA1700$680

Balanced ~5%Buy on AmazonNewegg

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GPU

~FPS 1440p:75Ultra|108Bal|149Perf

11

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D

Score: 96/100Socket: AM5$459 - price unverified

Balanced ~5%Check availabilityNewegg

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GPU

~FPS 1440p:75Ultra|108Bal|149Perf

12

Intel Core i9-13900KS

Score: 95/100Socket: LGA1700$707

Balanced ~5%Buy on AmazonNewegg

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GPU

~FPS 1440p:75Ultra|108Bal|149Perf

13

AMD Ryzen 9 9900X

Score: 95/100Socket: AM5$403

Balanced ~5%Buy on AmazonNewegg

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GPU

~FPS 1440p:75Ultra|108Bal|149Perf

14

Intel Core i7-14700K

Score: 94/100Socket: LGA1700$312

Balanced ~4%Buy on AmazonNewegg

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GPU

~FPS 1440p:75Ultra|108Bal|149Perf

15

Intel Core i7-14700KF

Score: 94/100Socket: LGA1700$275

Balanced ~4%Buy on AmazonNewegg

CPU

GPU

~FPS 1440p:75Ultra|108Bal|149Perf