IT Home and EXP Review have shared new rumors regarding NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 40 SUPER Series, revealing what could not only be their pricing, but also how their performance might compare with the standard versions that are available on today’s market.
Here’s a breakdown of what IT Home has heard, including prices that range from $599 to $999, as well as up to 22% faster performance for a certain model—namely, the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER:
- RTX 4080 Super 16GB: $999, 6%-9% faster than RTX 4080
- This graphics card is based on the AD103-400 GPU, has 10240 CUDA cores, a 256bit bus width, can provide an effective bandwidth of 768GB/s (24Gbps G6X), and a TDP of 320W.
- RTX 4070 Ti Super 16GB: $799~849, 14-22% faster than RTX 4070 Ti
- This graphics card is based on the AD103-275 / AD102-175 GPU, similar to the 4080 Super, with 8448 CUDA cores, 256bit video memory, and a speed of about 21–22.4Gbps, so the effective bandwidth is only slightly lower than the 4080 Super.
- RTX 4070 Super 12GB: $599~$649, performance close to RTX 4070 Ti
- This graphics card is based on the AD104-350 / AD103-175 GPU. It has 7168 cores, which is nearly 21% more than the RTX 4070. It uses 192bit GDDR6X memory with a speed of 21Gbps and a bandwidth of 504 GB/s.
For comparison, here’s how much the standard versions of those GPUs from NVIDIA cost:
- GeForce RTX 4080 ($1,199)
- GeForce RTX 4070 Ti ($700)
- GeForce RTX 4070 ($599)
…so basically, it looks like the GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER could actually be cheaper than its original counterpart.
EXP Review echoed most of this information in its own coverage, but according to that report, the GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER may end up being priced at $1,099…which, although higher, would still make it cheaper than what the normal GeForce RTX 4080 launched for.
The GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER will supposedly be on shelves on January 17 following a January 8 announcement (something that appears to have been confirmed), while the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER and GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER will supposedly arrive on shelves later, on January 24 and January 31, respectively.
NVIDIA launched the GeForce RTX 40 Series in October 2022, revealing a new, $1,599 flagship in the form of the GeForce RTX 4090.
Discussion (19 replies)
Join Discussion →Its funny how they conveniently do this right after the holiday shopping season, so they can maximize sales of existing models before immediately dropping new models right after the holidays making every lucky kid who got a brand new GPU for the holidays feel like their gift was somehow cheapened.
That said, the $600-$1100 Christmas gift market seems to be for rather spoiled kids...
Yeah, can’t say I ever got a video card as a gift, even back during the voodoo 2 days. Mouse? Sure. CPU / video card? Nope
I can't remember how I got my Matrix Mystique 3D (which luckily failed and I got a full refund under the protection plan and bought a Voodoo1)
The Mystique was like $180 back then. It came out in 1996. When it failed it was towards the end of the coverage period, so I probably got my Voodoo1 (Miro Hiscore 3D, 6MB version, European version of the Canopies Pure 3D) it was probably not long before the Voodoo2 launch, and thus cheaper. I may have had to throw some extra money in on top of the protection plan money from the Mystique to get the voodoo. Can't remember. It's been more than 25 years.
It's possible I saved up my paper route money and bought it myself, but I just can't remember.
Even if it was a gift though, video cards back then were WAY cheaper than they are today.
I don't think it was a gift though. My parents didn't give big gifts like that. Except for that one time I got my first PC a 286, but it was obsolete already when I got it in 1991, and it was one of those combined birthday Xmas + all of my allowance for the next year type arrangements. I feel like I maybe had to sign a contract, but I can't remember.
I guess I was out on my own by the time I was buying more recent GPU's, so nothing since then was ever a gift, and I would have expected them to be, as they were way too expensive.
GeForce2 GTS -> GeForce 3 TI500 -> GeForce 6800 GT... etc. etc. These were funded through college summer job money :p
I got a GeForce 2 Pro 64MB (Guillemot Hercules) for Christmas in the late 90s (I think it was 1998). I think my mom paid around $320 for it. My dad was NOT pleased (nor was he happy about the Intellimouse Explorer 3.0 I got back then, which I think was around $75 - seems so silly to me, cuz ever since then I have never paid more than $40 for a mouse, usually in the 20s or 30s). If my dad heard how much video cards cost these days...
You mean TNT2 Pro? I don't think the Geforce branding was used until late 1999 with the Geforce 256, and the Geforce 2 was a 2001 thing.
Actually no, TNT2 Pro first came out in October 99, same month as the Geforce 256.
I can't say I ever got a video card that was not a gift until I was in college. How else? Even back then video cards were the most expensive component of a gaming PC. I have not seen that kind of cash on me until I started working full time. When I was still in college I scraped by on second hand mid tier HW. With one exception when I got a great deal on a "used" 9800PRO.
There goes my old-man memory. GeForce 2 GTS and Ultra came out in Fall 2000, and I think the Pro was released shortly after. I must have gotten it for Christmas in 2000. I know I had the GF2 Pro before my Athlon Tbird, which I got in Summer 2001 (though I believe that CPU actually came out before the GeForce 2 line). I was no longer living at my parents' house by the end of 2001, so I couldn't have gotten it for Christmas then. Either way, 1998 was way off. I should've known because I was playing UT1 GotY edition which came out in '99 (and I don't think I got it until 2000).
Here are some pics of the card I took in 2019:
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I worked 3 part time jobs in high school. I got paid minimally to work on the family farm, I worked on the road crew of a band as dumb muscle for 50 a night, and then I worked Saturdays at a furniture moving company.
I added a 4th job when I turned 16 and started working at the local ISP doing dial up internet tech support.
I was able to fully pay for my own tech starting with my pentium 2 400 with a Voodoo2 12mb the day the p2 400 was released.
I ended up with SLI on that voodoo 2 because I won a second at a quake 2 tournament in fall of 99. It was amazing
Just goes to show how different it was it in the Eastern block. My first full time summer job paid $90. Not for a night, for a month. If I could earn 50 in one day, I'd have been the richest man in my neighborhood. :LOL:
The reverse of that is, what constituted a living wage back then? I mean I know we were so old they were laying the foundations for the pyramids. ;)
I've had family help, and give on their own, with various tech stuff throughout the years but for the most part, I've been buying it all on my own exclusively for the last decade or two. Crap is just too expensive to even begin to think about asking someone else to be involved in. At this point if they ask about what to give I ask for a restaurant or Amazon gift card.
I will say that my first dGPU cards came as part of hand-me-downs in P1 and P2 builds. I think I even had one come in a junk box from somebody. I don't even remember what any of them were. I know that my first video card purchases happened with my P4 build which is still in a closet with its last card which is an AGP ATI Radeon. Since then, ~2005-2007, I sometimes get depressed in thinking about what has likely been well over $10K in video card purchases.
Average wage was around $200 for a month back then. True cost of living was also lower here than the US, but not to the same degree as salaries. And unfortunately the lower cost never applied to electronics and computer parts, those were always more expensive due to extra taxes and companies consistently short changing Europe with the $1 = €1 BS.
so thinking about it It tried to get my son into computer IT stuff. He just never got into it at all. I should have made him want it and just disassembled the first PC I got him and had him put it together and make it work. That was my mistake I think. I kept the magic in the box and didn't let him discover it himself.
I sold newspapers from middle school until halfway through highschool when I quit to focus on my studies which took all my time (The International Baccalaureate program with an all Science/Math higher level focus is no joke). Summers in highschool I worked in a fruit and vegetable distribution center in a huge airport sized refrigerated warehouse, and then in college I did minimum wage jobs as a sales person at department stores during the summer, and worked in computer labs eventually making it to management during the semesters.
Almost every one of my big PC hardware investments back then came after returning to school with a fresh $4-5k in my pocket from working crazy overtime all summer since my parents were in a new town where I knew no one and had no social life.
It worries me that kids these days don't work. Especially the ones who wind up going off to college. Working unskilled low wage labor jobs builds character and gives you respect for the people who do them, something which is often sorely lacking in adults who haven't had that experience.
In my opinion everyone should have to work a hard labor, retail or food service job for at least a couple years when they are young to gain perspective, understanding of and compassion for the other 65% of people, even if they are star students headed for elite universities. If that were the case this world would have fewer a-holes.