Prices for Nvidia’s three upcoming GeForce RTX 40 Super GPUs have been leaked byX user @Zed__Wang, who has a decent track record with predicting specifications of Nvidia GPUs, like theRTX 4060 Tifor example. This price leak, if true, reveals that not all three RTX 40 Super graphics cards will sport especially attractive price tags. This is particularly true for the RTX 4080 Super, which is apparently going to launch at $999.
The GeForce RTX 40 Super series revives the Super brand that was only used previously to refresh theTuring GPU series in 2019. Back then, Super basically meant offering new price points and performance levels with a much better bang for buck than the original RTX 20 / GTX 16 lineup. We’d expect to see the same with the RTX 40 series, and leaked hardware specs indicate that at least the performance side of the equation makes sense. The RTX 4070 Super, RTX 4070 Ti Super, and RTX 4080 Super all are rumored to come with more cores.
As with all rumors, there’s just one caveat: take it with a grain of salt. You won’t even have to wait that long to get all this from the horse’s mouth, asNvidia’s CES 2024 presentationand the presumed reveal of the RTX 40 Super series is tomorrow, January 8, at 8 AM Pacific time.
*Specifications are unconfirmed.
Prices actually haven’t changed all that much from the original Nvidia GeForce RTX 40 series cards, with the RTX 4070 Super and 4070 Ti Super staying at $599 and $799 respectively. The GeForce RTX 4080 Super sees a price drop of $200, bringing it down to $999. By contrast, the GeForce RTX 20 Super series actually brought with it a slight increase in MSRPs with the RTX 2060 Super and 2070 Super.
The prices put into perspective how substantial these upgrades are. The RTX 4070 Super has the biggest CUDA core boost with a 21% increase, and since the price hasn’t changed, in theory that means its value (performance per dollar) should also go up by around 21%. The RTX 4070 Ti Super only has a 10% increase in CUDA core amount, but it also comes with 4GB more VRAM, which is harder to quantify in terms of value.
The GeForce RTX 4080 Super also seems like a slam dunk despite its paltry 5% increase in CUDA cores, all thanks to that $200 discount. Though, it’s worth considering that the original RTX 4080’s $1,199 MSRP was already pretty high, and even higher than AMD’s flagshipRadeonRX 7900 XTX with 24GB of memory at $999. Retail pricing of the RTX 4080 has dropped to roughly $1,100 while the 7900 XTX has dropped to a little over $900. Slotting in the RTX 4080 Super at $999 isn’t earth-shattering, at least on paper.
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Like with the original GeForce RTX 20 Super series, it seems the stars of the show in the RTX 40 Super lineup are the cheaper two models. The RTX 4070 Super is nearly on par with the RTX 4070 Ti, while the RTX 4070 Ti Super is like a mini-RTX 4080. AMD will definitely have to revisit its$599 RX 7800 XTand maybe even theRX 7900 XT, which retails for around $800 these days.
Matthew Connatser is a freelancing writer for Tom’s Hardware US. He writes articles about CPUs, GPUs, SSDs, and computers in general.
