Nvidia launches the $1,000 RTX 4080 Super, $800 RTX 4070 Ti Super, and $six hundred RTX 4070 Super

Highly anticipated: As reviews had been suggesting for a while now, Nvidia has released 3 Super photographs playing cards at CES, all of which can be popping out in January. These encompass the GeForce RTX 4080 Super, RTX 4070 Ti Super – sure that is the official call – and the RTX 4070 Super. These new merchandise deliver Nvidia's GeForce line a much-wished improve in the mid to top section of their stack.

The first product to hit the market is the RTX 4070 Super, to be had on January 17th at $six hundred. This GPU is launching at the same fee factor as the authentic RTX 4070. However, the 4070 isn't always being discontinued; rather, it has acquired an official price reduce to $550 – a charge we first noticed within the previous couple of months of 2023.

The 4070 Super remains using AD104 silicon, much like the 4070 and 4070 Ti, however gets a configuration closer to the 4070 Ti. Compared to the 4070, the SM be counted has accelerated from 46 to fifty six, bringing with it 7,168 CUDA cores – just shy of the 60 SMs and seven,680 CUDA cores of the 4070 Ti. However, the reminiscence subsystem is the same as the RTX 4070, so we're getting 12GB of GDDR6X memory on a 192-bit bus, providing 504 GB/s of bandwidth.

Nvidia has shown a performance slide demonstrating the distinction relative to the RTX 3070 and RTX 2070, with and without body generation. They also provided a overall performance declare relative to the RTX 4070. While this ought to be occupied with a grain of salt, because it's Nvidia's own benchmarking, they declare the 4070 Super is 15% faster than the 4070 and five% slower than the 4070 Ti. Although the middle configuration has multiplied by using 20%, the expected performance isn't always proportionally higher due to the unchanged memory bandwidth.

Effectively, Nvidia is presenting a brand new product on the $six hundred charge factor that offers approximately 15% more overall performance. This must allow it to better compete with the Radeon RX 7800 XT – a price segment in which we noticed excessive competition in 2023. With the RTX 4070 now decreased to $550, the 4070 Super seems reasonable if the 15% performance increase holds authentic, given the Super version will be just 9% greater expensive. The addition of unlocked cores has led to a ten% rise in TGP, which now sits at 220W.

The RTX 4070 Ti Super will be to be had next, on January twenty fourth at $800, changing the RTX 4070 Ti. The antique version can be discontinued. The 4070 Ti Super represents the minimal improvement that must have been presented with the 4070 Ti at this fee point.

The 4070 Ti Super upgrades from AD104 to AD103, bringing tremendous reminiscence upgrades. We're now getting a 256-bit memory interface with 16GB of GDDR6X memory, up from the previous 12GB. This increases reminiscence bandwidth by 33 percentage, now simply beneath what the RTX 4080 offers, as the 4070 Ti Super's reminiscence isn't clocked as excessive.

The core configuration is a cut-down AD103, although still better than the unique 4070 Ti on AD104, providing sixty six SMs and 8,448 CUDA cores – a ten% increase, achieved on the identical 285W TGP. Nvidia suggests this model need to be 10% quicker than the RTX 4070 Ti, blended with a great boom in VRAM potential, looks like an inexpensive development. The SM configuration is a thirteen percent discount in comparison to the RTX 4080, with just 6 percent much less reminiscence bandwidth, suggesting this card would possibly technique the 4080's performance carefully.

The key query might be how nicely this version competes towards the RTX 4070 Super and AMD's Radeon RX 7900 XT. This model appears extra competitive in this price tier with AMD, even though it would possibly most effective be around 20 to 25% quicker than the 4070 Super, priced 33 percentage higher. This pricing method is traditional within the graphics card market, in which a modest to large top class is often required for better tiers of performance.

Finally, there is the RTX 4080 Super, launching on January 31st at $1,000. This model has the least hardware changes as compared to its non-Super predecessor, that's being discontinued. It's nevertheless an AD103 GPU die, absolutely unlocked with eighty SMs and 10,240 CUDA cores. We're nonetheless getting 16GB of GDDR6X memory with a moderate frequency growth, taking it to 23 Gbps. Nvidia expects this card to be simply 3% faster than the RTX 4080, which is comprehensible given the hardware similarities.

The big development to the RTX 4080 Super is the rate. The authentic 4080 launched at $1,two hundred, so Nvidia is now presenting a slightly faster product for $2 hundred less, a 17% bargain. While this is not an terrific rate, it's a far-wanted reduction thinking about the 4080's lackluster sales at $1,200 or maybe $1,100.

At $1,000, this product fits nicely in Nvidia's updated stack, imparting around 20 percentage more SMs than the 4070 Ti Super for a 25% higher rate. Previously, a 50% better price was required for a 25% overall performance raise whilst shifting from the 4070 Ti to the non-Super 4080 models.

On paper, this also offers the RTX 4080 Super fee parity with the AMD Radeon 7900 XTX, despite the fact that normally the XTX may be found barely below $1,000. Our head to head checking out of these two GPUs had the 7900 XTX and RTX 4080 intently matched for rasterization performance, with the 4080 quicker in ray tracing. When the Radeon model turned into 15% inexpensive, we did not view it as an automatic buy however considered it worth taking into account for some users. With the RTX 4080 Super now priced in the direction of the XTX, it puts giant strain on AMD to reduce the pricing in their flagship RDNA3 version.

Reviews for all 3 GPUs might be to be had close to their respective launch dates. Nvidia will produce Founders Edition models for each the 4080 Super and 4070 Super, while the 4070 Ti Super might be available only thru partner cards.

When we inquired about the opportunity of different Super series graphics playing cards for the relaxation of the product stack, Nvidia answered with a concise "no comment." This reaction does not rule out the possibility of more GPUs within the forty series, and admittedly, we assume a few Super fashions are vital to decorate the RTX 4060 tier.

We see Nvidia's new GeForce RTX 40 Super cards as effective "fixes" for the lineup. All 3 fashions appear nearer in specifications and pricing to wherein they have to had been at their release in overdue 2022 and early 2023. Whether these cards do enough to earn a strong advice in the modern market is yet to be decided – they aren't significantly quicker based totally on Nvidia's claims. However, it's obvious that one should refrain from buying a images card over $500 till those GPUs are launched and fully benchmarked.