NVIDIA RTX 4080 SUPER launching next week
The company has provided reviewers with necessary drivers.
With the reviews for the RTX 4070 Ti SUPER already available (with more to come later today), NVIDIA is now turning its attention to the launch of the RTX 4080 SUPER scheduled for next week. This particular model marks the final addition to the SUPER series and is (at least for now) the last desktop launch from NVIDIA.
Initial tests have been conducted on the card, but none of them hold significant relevance for gamers. A reviewer, utilizing a high-end Z790 platform equipped with an Intel Core i9-14900K, has put the RTX 4080 SUPER through three Geekbench compute tests, covering three out of four available graphics APIs: Vulkan, OpenCL, and CUDA.
RTX 4080 SUPER in Geekbench 5:
- Vulkan: 100378
- OpenCL: 264806
- CUDA: 309554
RTX 4080 SUPER, Source: Geekbench
We should also be aware that at least one of the benchmarks (Vulkan) shows incorrect information. One can easily find benchmarks with twice the score on RTX 4080 non-SUPER, and even benchmarks that show nearly the same performance for other APIs. For this reason, we are not attempting to make any comparison because it wouldn’t tell us anything important. What is needed are newer Geekbench 6.0 tests, and the more of them the better.
The important information is that reviewers received the drivers and will start testing their RTX 4080 SUPER cards right away, some have clearly already started. We will work on obtaining more meaningful data based on 3DMark tests with gaming benchmarks coming from reviewers next week.
The RTX 4080 SUPER is not expected to be a major upgrade over RTX 4080, though. Unlike RTX 4070 SUPER which has over 20% more cores or 4070 TI SUPER with 4GB more memory than their respective non-SUPER versions, the RTX 4080 SUPER is only a 5% core increase while maintaining the same TDP. Ultimately, the RTX 4080 SUPER’s best feature is the new $999 price, which $200 lower than the original SKU’s.
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 SUPER Specifications | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VideoCardz | RTX 4080 SUPER | RTX 4080 | RTX 4070 Ti SUPER | RTX 4070 Ti | RTX 4070 SUPER | RTX 4070 |
| Board & SKU | PG139 SKU 355 | PG139 SKU 360 | PG141 SKU 323 | PG141 SKU 331 | PG141 SKU 335 | PG141 SKU 344 |
| GPU | AD103-400 | AD103-300 | AD103-275 | AD104-400 | AD104-350 | AD104-250 |
| CUDA Cores | ||||||
| Memory | ||||||
| Memory Bus | ||||||
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| TGP | ||||||
| Power Connector | 1x 12VHPWR | 1x 12VHPWR | 1x 12VHPWR | 1x 12VHPWR | 1x 12VHPWR | 1x 12VHPWR/8-pin |
| On-Shelf | January 31, 2024 | September 20, 2022 | January 24, 2024 | January 5, 2023 | January 17, 2024 | April 13, 2023 |
| MSRP | $999 | $1199 | $799 | $799 | $599 | $599 |
Source: Geekbench (Vulkan), (CUDA), (OpenCL) via @BenchLeaks
