NVIDIA’s rumored trio of RTX 4000 series “SUPER” graphics cards could very well be announced during CES next year to start the new year off with a unceremonious whimper.
We’ve previously gone over the ever changing rumors surrounding these illusive SUPER series graphics cards, notably with the RTX 4080 Super now utilizing the AD103 core, similarly to the standard RTX 4080, providing just 5% more CUDA cores and a slightly higher percentage in actual performance yield.
Which ultimately makes the RTX 4070 SUPER and RTX 4070 Ti SUPER the much more interesting of the three refresh options, as they actually provide substantial uplifts in terms of core configuration and actual gaming performance.
The RTX 4070 Ti SUPER still remains to be an absolutely retarded naming scheme.
But obviously, NVIDIA is a company that couldn’t care less about the consumer, in a perfect world they’d announce these three to slot into the aforementioned price brackets of the graphics cards they are set to be replacing, namely the $500 RTX 4070, the $800 RTX 4070 Ti and the $1200 RTX 4080, which would ultimately shuffle down in terms of pricing as they’re effectively being replaced by superior hardware.
Obviously I high doubt this to be the case, NVIDIA loves your money and they certainly love fucking their customers over as well, hence why they’re selling you a cutdown AD103 core for $1200, effectively limiting AD102 from 99% of customers in the form of the RTX 4090.
The RTX 4090 of which can cost anywhere from $1600-1800 as majority of the AD102 yield is being allocated towards enterprise / AI hardware instead, such as the Quadro RTX 5000 / 6000 of which are selling like hotcakes and provides substantially greater profit margins over traditional GeForce hardware.
And now the latest leaks surrounding the RTX 40 series SUPER refreshment is an inevitable announcement at CES, the Consumer Electronics Show expo held in Las Vegas.
Kopite7kimi proclaims that NVIDIA plans to unveil the RTX 4000 series SUPER graphics cards at CES next year, which will be held from January 9th to the 12th.
Normally these large tech corporations such as AMD and NVIDIA will host a keynote presentation during the expo to announce new products, however for CES 2024 NVIDIA won’t be a ‘featured’ exhibitor at the event.
But the company is confirmed to have booked three conference rooms, which would otherwise indicate that they’re putting as much effort into the announcement of these new SUPER GPUs as they’ve gone about creating them.
Despite this, there’s no actual indication of a significant media event planned. It’s possible that the RTX 40 SUPER unveiling might not warrant such a grand public event, instead, the focus could be on partner designs, new technologies, or the main theme for next year’s CES, which of course happens to be “artificial intelligence” the current tech fad and corporate bubble.
Which could also mean NVIDIA could very well announce them tomorrow or sometime next week, we don’t actually know. Nor do I really give a shit for that matter.
Rumors suggest that NVIDIA is gearing up to introduce at least two new cards, possibly three. And in all honesty I wish they’d outright shelve the idea of announcing a rubbish AD103 based RTX 4080 “SUPER” as it’s undoubtably the worst of the three speculated.
This launch is expected to bolster NVIDIA’s lineup in the upper mid-range segment of which they’re desperately fighting off AMD’s Radeon RX 7000 series which provides immensely greater perceptions of value but performance too in many cases.
With the RTX 4070 simply being pounded by AMD’s superior Radeon RX 7800 XT, at least in terms of actual rasterization performance, equipped with a greater quantity of VRAM for $100 less it’s a far superior purchase.
The RTX 4070 Ti also makes little sense to purchase over AMD’s Radeon RX 7900 XT which can also be found for $800 or sometimes slightly lower on special, such as the $780 XFX Speedster MERC310 currently on Newegg.
And hilariously NVIDIA’s worst blunder, that being the $1200 RTX 4080 which certainly hasn’t sold as many units as previous generation 80-class cards, that is convincingly beaten out by AMD’s RX 7900 XTX which costs two hundred dollars less, once again managing to pack in more VRAM and performance for a much lower cost.
NVIDIA desperately needed some backup to warrant the purchase of its GeForce hardware over competitive Radeons, but with a woeful AD103 based RTX 4080 SUPER with an equal 16GB of GDDR6X I genuinely can’t comprehend why anyone would give it the light of day, less of course NVIDIA provides that 5% performance increase at the same $1200 price tag whilst aggressively undercutting the original RTX 4080 for $999.
But will they do such a thing? Only time will tell but I’m certainly not getting my hopes up.
