NVIDIA has unleashed its brand new gaming beast, the GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER GPU, which comes for $999 US & tackles AMD's 7900 XTX.
As expected, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER is the next gaming king which still sits below the RTX 4090 but replaces the RTX 4080 at $999 US, a $200 reduction in price which now makes it the direct competition to the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX which has the same price. The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER is designed as an ultra-enthusiast 4K product with all the Ada Lovelace goodies packed within its GPU, offering increased shader, ray tracing, and AI TFLOPs.
The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER utilizes the AD103-400 GPU (PG139 SKU 355) with the full 10,240 cores, 320 TMUs, 112 ROPs, and 64 MB of L2 cache. The GPU will also be clocked slightly higher at a 2295 MHz base and 2550 MHz boost versus the 2205 MHz base and 2505 MHz boost of the RTX 4080 Non-SUPER variant.
The graphics card will use a 256-bit bus interface with 16 GB GDDR6X memory, the same as the RTX 4080 Non-SUPER but boosted to 23 Gbps, making it the fastest G6X solution in the world, offering up to 736 GB/s of bandwidth which is around a 3% boost over the Non-SUPER variant. The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER will feature the same TGP as the RTX 4080 Non-SUPER at 320W. The card offers 52 Shader TFLOPs, 121 RT TFLOPs, and 836 AI TOPs while supporting all the latest NV encode technologies such as AV1 and H.264.
In terms of gaming performance, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER is said to be around 3% faster than the RTX 4080 Non-SUPER which isn't a huge gain but custom models will deliver close to 5% performance boosts. NVIDIA also mentioned that in CPU-bound scenarios, the RTX 4080 SUPER and RTX 4080 Non-SUPER are very similar in performance
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