Nvidia’s RTX 4080 Super arrives on January 31st at a more reasonable $999
By Tom Warren, a senior editor covering Microsoft, PC gaming, console, and tech. He founded WinRumors, a site dedicated to Microsoft news, before joining The Verge in 2012.
Nvidia is introducing three RTX 40-series Super cards this month that offer more performance at price points that are similar or better than existing cards. Pricing of the RTX 40-series has been a sticking point for gamers, particularly for the RTX 4080. Nvidia is replacing this GPU with the RTX 4080 Super and cutting the price to $999 when it launches on January 31st.
The $200 price cut will put a lot of pressure on AMD’s Radeon RX 7900 XT ($899) and XTX ($999) cards. Before the RTX 4080 Super launches, there’s also the RTX 4070 Super on January 17th priced at $599 and the RTX 4070 Ti Super, with some interesting changes, on January 24th at $799. Nvidia is also phasing out the RTX 4070 Ti but keeping the RTX 4070 around at a lower $549 price point.
The RTX 4080 Super ships with Nvidia’s full AD103 chip, so it’s not cut down like the RTX 4080 before it. There are more CUDA cores and faster memory at 736GB/s of bandwidth, and it ships with the same 16GB of G6X and can draw up to 320 watts of power.
Nvidia is aiming the RTX 4080 Super at existing RTX 3080 Ti or RTX 2080 Super owners, rather than RTX 40-series adopters. The performance bump over an RTX 4080 should be between 1 and 5 percent, depending on the games, so essentially, it’s RTX 4080-level performance (or better) for $200 less.
The RTX 4070 Ti Super looks like it could be the most interesting card out of the trio of RTX 40-series Super GPUs. Nvidia is increasing the memory to 16GB of G6X, and it’s being upgraded to the 256-bit memory bus found on the RTX 4080 / 4090 cards instead of the
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