A performance gap between team green’s two top-tier cards could be getting filled soon as NVIDIA is rumored to release a new GPU in 2024. Now that we are nearly one year into the release of NVIDIA’s RTX 40 series ADA-based GPUs the rumors about what is to come next continue to grow. The latest one suggests that either a GeForce RTX 4080 Ti or Super is on the horizon to fill a gap between the current RTX 4080 and RTX 4090 models. This latest rumor comes via well-known GPU information leaker, MEGAsizeGPU, who has said the rumored card could arrive in early 2024 with a similar MSRP as the current RTX 4080, be based on the AD102 wafer, and use less than 450W of power.
There will be a 4080S(maybe Ti) in early 2024.
— MEGAsizeGPU (@Zed__Wang) October 7, 2023
Based on AD102, TGP below 450W, same price range as 4080
The current RTX 4080 launched with 16 GB of VRAM on a 192-bit bus while the RTX 4090 sports 24 GB of memory on a 320-bit bus. Other differences include 9,728 CUDA cores vs. 16,384 found in the flagship card. These specs show enough of a gap for NVIDIA to eye the possibility of releasing another card to fit in between the two, especially since the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX has done such a great job at competing with it and discounts would make AMD’s flagship card even more attractive to consumers. Speculation is already happening on what improvements NVIDIA would make for such a card but it could be interesting to see a more powerful card offered at around the $1000-$1200 range.
Per OC3D:
“Our guess is that Nvidia’s rumoured GPU will feature 20GB of GDDR6X memory over a 320-bit memory bus. We also speculate that the GPU will feature around 12,228 CUDA cores. Those specification should give Nvidia’s new Ti or Super GPU a significant performance bump.”
Meanwhile, NVIDIA’s RTX 50 series is not expected to launch until 2025 so there’s plenty of time for refreshes or additions to the current lineup. Rumors about changes at the top of the stack have been circulating for a while now with mentions, and images, of either an RTX 4090 Ti or TITAN ADA, although unless competition for the current flagship emerges it is unlikely either will be released hence why NVIDIA is rumored to be filling gaps in the rest of its current product stack.