Nvidia Announces RTX 40 Super Series At CES 2024 With The 80-Class Seeing A Price Drop

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In today's announcements at CES 2024 here in Las Vegas,Nvidia officially unveiled its RTX 40 Super Series line up of GPUs, with the 4070, 4070 Ti, and the 4080 getting the treatment. All three GPUs are set to launch this month.

These new GPUs aim to provide a performance bump over the non-super variants Nvidia released previously, with the line up seeing higher CUDA core counts and, in some cases, more and faster memory.

This one is the most interesting to me, as it sees the RTX 4080-class of GPU able to compete price-wise with rival AMD's flagship, theRX 7900 XTX. While both cards traded blows in our review, with the Nvidia card proving better with ray tracing applications specifically, the price gulf between the two made the Nvidia card a little tougher pill to swallow. 

Now, with the RTX 4080 Super hitting the line up Nvidia GPUs at the same $999 price tag (replacing the old 4080 as well in the stack), the pressure is on AMD, especially when you factor in more robust support for DLSS 3 frame generation on Nvidia's hardware versus AMD's Fidelity FX Super Resolution 3's frame generation — which only has a few games that have adopted it thus far.

The RTX 4080 Super is the full AD103 chip, with more CUDA cores than its predecessor, as well as faster memory bandwidth. This feels like it's targeted at those who've yet to upgrade from an RTX  2080 or 3080 Ti while pricing more competitively with AMD's similarly performing GPUs. The RTX 4080 Super launches on January 31st.

The RTX 4070 Ti Super, meanwhile, stays at its $799 price range as the original variant launched, taking over its spot in Nvidia's GPU stack. The big news for the RTX 4070 Ti is the increase in memory to 16GB GDDR6X as well as a bump to the 256-bit memory bus,