NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER Hits Shelves On 17th January, 4070 Ti SUPER On 24th & 4080 SUPER On 31st January

NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 40 SUPER GPUs including the RTX 4080 SUPER, 4070 Ti SUPER & 4070 SUPER are all set for retail availability in January.

NVIDIA is preparing the launch of the GeForce RTX 40 SUPER GPU lineup which will be introduced on the 8th of January at CES 2024. Following the unveiling, NVIDIA will allow AIB partners to begin marketing campaigns for their respective lineups. This recent update to AICs has allowed the tech leakers to gain knowledge of the on-shelf dates of these GPUs which as ITHome reports are (via Chinese Board Channel Forums):

The trio of the RTX 40 SUPER family will be unveiled the same day but their actual availability will vary. The green team does intend to have all three products launched within the same month of January and the RTX 4070 SUPER will be the first to make it to market with a launch date of the 17th of January followed by the RTX 4070 Ti SUPER on the 24th of January and finally, the RTX 4080 SUPER on the 31st of January. All cards will be launched a week apart which should give reviewers enough time for testing and AIBs to work on marketing for their latest products.

What's interesting about the upcoming launch is that we have yet to hear anything about NVIDIA's own Founders Edition design. AIBs will be offering a range of new and refreshed custom designs & so far, we haven't heard anything about an FE model though NVIDIA does have the opportunity to do a slight refresh of its design, maybe with a new "SUPER" logo on them?

Starting at the top, we have the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER which is expected to use the AD103-400 GPU (PG139 SKU 355) with the full 10,240 cores, 320 TMUs, 112 ROPs, and 64 MB of L2 cache. The chip will use a 256-bit bus interface which would suggest a 16 GB GDDR6X memory, same as the RTX 4080 Non-SUPER. The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER will feature the same TGP as the RTX 4080 Non-SUPER at 320W.

In terms of performance, the graphics card is expected to be 3-5% faster than the RTX 4080 Non-SUPER which isn't a huge gain but custom models will deliver close to 10% performance boosts. NVIDIA hasn't decided on the pricing of the SUPER series lineup yet but this small performance boost should help the card be faster than the Radeon RX 7900 XTX and if it comes at anything around $1000-$1100 US, then that ends up being very competitive.

Next up, we have the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER which will feature a choice of AD103-275 / AD102-175 GPU SKUs (PG141 SKU 323) with 8,448 cores across both variants & 48 MB of L2 cache. The graphics card will also feature 16 GB of GDDR6 memory which will be a 4 GB VRAM upgrade vs the RTX 4070 Ti Non-SUPER and support a 256-bit bus interface. The graphics card will retain a 285 Watt TGP which is the same as the Non-SUPER variant.

For performance, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER 16 GB GPU will offer an average 15% boost in performance over the Non-SUPER variant and should compete well against the Radeon RX 7900 XT at a possible lower price point.

Lastly, there's the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER which is said to come in AD104-350 or AD103-175 SKU (PG141 SKU 335) configurations with the same 7,168 cores across both variants. The GPU is expected to get 48 MB of L2 cache. It looks like this card would stick with the 12 GB GDDR6X memory across the same 192-bit bus interface. For the RTX 4070 SUPER, the card will have a 20W higher TBP than the existing 4070 at 220W.

As for the performance, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER should end up being around 14% faster than the RTX 4070 Non-SUPER. The graphics card will also get the new CEM 5.1 Gen5 power connector. The existing RTX 4070 graphics cards either come with an 8-pin connector or a 12-pin power connector (supplied with an adapter).

So in terms of performance, you are expecting something like the following from NVIDIA's RTX 40 SUPER GPUs (Performance based on reference specs):

Once again, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 SUPER GPU family is going to be unveiled at CES 2024 & launch is "expected" in the same month. Prices have not been confirmed to any retailer or partner and don't expect them to be finalized until the very last minute.