Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080 Super: everything we know
Now that the Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080 Super is official following Nvidia’s big CES 2024 announcement, all eyes are on late January 2024, when Nvidia may release the final graphics card of the Nvidia Lovelace generation.
With the Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Super and Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super on the horizon, this is Nvidia’s last chance to really cash in on the Nvidia RTX 4080, which by rights should have been a top contender for best graphics card of 2024, true It doesn’t because of the terrible prices at launch.
Still, as one of the best 4K graphics cards on the market, the RTX 4080 has a lot to offer in terms of specs, and considering that the RTX 4080 Super will have even better specs at a much better price, the RTX 4080 Super is well positioned to be something of a comeback story for Team Green as it caps off the Lovelace generation. We’ll have to see once the reviews are in, but there’s no harm in recklessly speculating about what we can expect to see from this powerful GPU in late January.
Nvidia RTX 4080 Super: Get to the point
- What is it? Nvidia’s next (and possibly last) premium graphics card of this generation
- When will it be available? It will be launched on January 31, 2024
- What will it cost? US MSRP from $999 (approximately £800/AU$1,400)
Nvidia RTX 4080 Super: release date
The Nvidia RTX 4080 Super will launch on January 31, 2024, succeeding the Nvidia RTX 4070 Ti Super the week before.
It’s also likely the last Nvidia graphics card release for the rest of 2024, unless Nvidia Blackwell and the Nvidia 5000 series arrive by the end of the year. We will certainly keep an eye on developments in that direction, but as far as Nvidia Lovelace is concerned, this is almost certainly the last hurray.
Nvidia RTX 4080 Super: price
The Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080 Super has a US MSRP of $999.99 (about £800 / AU$1,400), which is $200 less than the Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080 that this card replaces, and finally solves the biggest problem we had with the RTX 4080. Considering its price, it is very difficult to recommend the RTX 4080 as is, not because the RTX 4090 is so close in price and has significantly better performance.
The RTX 4080 Super will also go head to head with Team Red’s flagship GPU, the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX at the same price, so it will be a lot of fun to see how these two cards battle it out.
Considering that the RTX 4080 Super will have a Founders Edition, this should help keep the price of third-party cards much closer to MSRP than they would otherwise be, something that should boost sales of the 4080 Super after the mediocre performance of the RTX4080.
Nvidia RTX 4080 Super: specifications and performance
Luckily, thanks to Nvidia’s CES announcement, we know a lot about the Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080 Super. While we don’t have official CUDA core counts, we do know that the 4080 Super will ship with more unlocked compute units, possibly as many as 80, giving a CUDA core count of 10240, making it second only to the RTX 4090 in terms of raw power. This also gives it 80 ray tracing cores and 320 tensor cores for even better performance.
Nvidia also says that the GDDR6X memory in the RTX 4080 Super will be the fastest consumer graphics memory in the world, running at 23Gbps, so this card will definitely be able to chew through 4K gaming with ease. We also know that the RTX 4080 Super will have 736 GB/s of memory bandwidth, along with 64 GB of L2 cache. We don’t know if it will have an extended memory bus, but 256-bit seems likely based on everything else we know.
The card will also have the same 320W TGP as its predecessor, so it looks like some power savings have been achieved somewhere along the way.
Without benchmarking it ourselves we can’t say much about future performance, but given the specs and the otherwise very strong performance of the RTX 4080, we expect the RTX 4080 Super to bring gamers much closer to the RTX 4090 performance levels, making it a very strong contender for the ultimate GPU for gaming enthusiasts when it launches at the end of this month.