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NVIDIA’s presentation at CES 2024 starts in a few hours (18:00 Kyiv time), but the main announcement has actually already taken place – all the details about the updated Ada Lovelace video cards, the GeForce RTX 40 Super series, were previously leaked by Videocardz.

Like GeForce RTX 40, only Super

The characteristics and prices of Super-video cards GeForce RTX 40 series have not been a secret for a long time – thanks to insiders and profile sites. Now that the tables and slides from the official presentation have appeared, you can fill in the gaps and summarize everything. In short, all the recent leaks about the RTX 40 Super line have been confirmed: it includes the updated models RTX 4080, RTX 4070 Ti and RTX 4070. The new trio of 3D accelerators is characterized by improved characteristics and higher performance compared to the familiar ones.

The price of the RTX 4080 Super in the United States is $999, which is $200 less than the initial price of the original RTX 4080. However, the prices of the RTX 4070 Ti Super and RTX 4070 Super remained at the same level as the original video card models without the Super attachment – $799 and $599, respectively. Back at the end of last year, there were reports of the discontinuation of GeForce RTX 4080 and RTX 4070 Ti production, and now there is indirect confirmation – one of the slides with the updated line does not mention these models. At the same time, the RTX 4070 will remain and coexist with the RTX 4070 Super.

GeForce RTX 40 series super video cards are distinguished primarily by the higher performance of shader units, tensor cores and RT cores, which are responsible for accelerating ray tracing. This emphasis is hard to miss in the slides above. But NVIDIA didn’t forget about CUDA cores either: the RTX 4080 Super has 10,240 CUDA cores, 16 GB of GDDR6X memory (23 Gbit/s), and the standard Total Graphics Power (TGP) figure is 320 W. At the same time, NVIDIA assures that the RTX 4080 Super will require about 246 W in games and 15 W during idle time. In terms of performance, NVIDIA marketers are promising “4K Full RT Gaming and Super-Fast Gen AI,” as well as twice the performance of the RTX 3080Ti.

A step below is the RTX 4070 Ti Super – with 8448 CUDA cores and a 16-GB GDDR6X video buffer. The memory subsystem upgrade is definitely the most notable feature of this SKU – we’re promised “2.5x the performance of the RTX 3070 Ti.” However, this rating is for DLSS Frame Generation support in individual games.

Finally, the RTX 4070 Super, which can be safely called the most significant update in the series, because it has 20% more cores than the non-SUPER variant. The number of CUDA cores has increased to 7,680 cores and, contrary to some rumors, 36MB of L2 cache has been confirmed, not 48MB as some had predicted. This corresponds to the L2 cache size of the non-SUPER version. On average, the RTX 4070 Super is expected to consume 200W during gaming and 11W when idle. NVIDIA says that the RTX 4070 SUPER will outperform the RTX 3090, but no specifics yet.

You can compare the key characteristics of the Super video card and the original models in the table:

The RTX 4070 Super and 4080 Super models will be offered in the Founders Edition reference design, and the RTX 40 Super reference version is indeed painted in deep black. NVIDIA RTX 40 Super graphics cards will go on sale in the second half of January: the RTX 4070 Super will be the first to appear on January 17, followed by the RTX 4070 Ti Super on January 24, and the RTX 4080 Super will join them on January 31. When the new video cards will be released in Ukraine and how much they will cost is currently unknown.

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