CES 2024 | Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080 Super offers complete AD103 die and 1.4x higher performance than RTX 3080 Ti for $999, availability from January 31 ^↺

After introducing the RTX 4070 Super and the RTX 4070 Ti Super, Nvidia is also supplanting the RTX 4080 with the new GeForce RTX 4080 Super. With increased CUDA cores and reduced prices, Nvidia is hoping to reverse some of the bad press that the original RTX 4080 garnered back in the day.

Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080 Super

Unlike the other RTX 40 Super launches, the RTX 4080 Super (AD103-400) only offers a nominal increase in CUDA core counts to 10,240, thereby making use of the complete AD103 die. The card offers the same 256-bit 16 GB GDDR6X as the original RTX 4080 but at a slightly faster 23 Gbps clock, which gives it a 736 GB/s bandwidth.

Nvidia says that the RTX 4080 Super can now do 52 shader TFLOPs, which is a ~53% increase in performance over the RTX 3080 Ti and a massive 373% increase over the RTX 2080 Super. The RTX 4080 Super has the same 320 W TGP as the original RTX 4080 and consumes about 246 W while gaming. The card idles at 15 W while sipping about 22 W during video playback.

Nvidia showed some numbers comparing the RTX 4080 Super to the RTX 3080 Ti and the RTX 2080 Super. Of course, the other two cards do not support DLSS 3 frame gen, so these numbers don't really matter much. But we do see appreciable gains in titles without frame gen enabled. Relatively, expect to see about 1.4x higher performance compared to the RTX 3080 Ti without frame gen.

At an MSRP of US$1,199, pricing was the Achilles heel of the original RTX 4080. The new RTX 4080 Super will retail as Founders Edition and add-in board (AiB) partner cards starting from US$999 on January 31.

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