RTX 4080 and 4070 Ti are reportedly getting a production freeze to make room for the forthcoming Super variants, while the RTX 4070 will soldier on

pcgamer.com:

With less than two months before the expected announcement of the RTX 40-series Super models, it's being reported that Nvidia is putting a halt to the RTX 4080 and RTX 4070 Ti lines. The idea is, of course, that these will be superseded by the 4080 Super and the delightfully named 4070 Ti Super.

As spotted over at Videocardz, aggregation service Board Channels is claiming that Nvidia has stopped the mass production of the GeForce RTX 4080 and the RTX 4070 Ti, the two most powerful cards in the RTX 40-series portfolio that you can actually buy without having to rob a bank or three.

Apparently, the distribution of GPUs for those models is now complete and third-party vendors, such as Asus, Gigabyte, Zotac, et al won't be making any additional inventory. It's all down to the much-rumored RTX 4080 Super and RTX 4070 Ti Super, which are expected to be announced by Nvidia at the CES 2024 event, in January.

The standard RTX 4070, though, is expected to stay in production, and if all of this turns out to be the case, next year's Nvidia desktop graphics card line-up will go as follows: RTX 4090, 4080 Super, 4070 Ti Super, 4070 Super, 4070, 4060 Ti, and the RTX 4060.

So it looks like we're going to get two direct replacements and just one completely new model. As of yet, there's been no talk of an RTX 4060 Super, which is a little surprising as the RTX 4060 Ti card uses a version of the AD106 GPU with two SM blocks disabled. 

This means there's certainly scope for a beefier 4060, so we may see one much later in the year, as a direct replacement for the Ti.

To me, the line-up just doesn't look complete and I can't help but wonder if we'll ever see a desktop RTX 4050. With the standard RTX 4060 using a full AD107 chip, its MSRP of