When was the Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080 Super release date? Nvidia the GeForce RTX 4080 Super in January 2024, along with two other RTX 4000 Super GPUs.
It’s a far better card than the original RTX 4080, as you can see in our RTX 4080 Super review. With Nvidia having seemingly learned its lessons from the overpriced and underwhelming GeForce RTX 4080, the new RTX 4080 Super is considerably cheaper than the original card with slightly higher specs too, earning it a place on our best graphics card guide.
When was the Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080 Super release date?
The GeForce RTX 4080 Super release date was Wednesday, January 31, 2024, with Nvidia announcing the card at CES 2024, alongside the GeForce RTX 4070 Super and RTX 4070 Ti Super.
The RTX 4080 Super was the last of the three new Super GPUs to be released in January 2024, with the RTX 4070 Super coming out on January 17 and the RTX 4070 Ti Super arriving on January 24.
It’s now been over a year since the GeForce RTX 4080 was first released at the end of 2022, and this GPU from the original Ada lineup is now set to be discontinued to make way for the superior (and cheaper) RTX 4080 Super.
What is the Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080 Super price?
The GeForce RTX 4080 Super price is $999 (£959), which is $200 cheaper than the original RTX 4080 at launch.
Nvidia has learned a hard lesson from the GeForce RTX 4080, which offered considerably poorer value than every 0ther GPU in the original Ada lineup. We’re very pleased to see that the new GeForce RTX 4080 Super not only has a superior spec to the original RTX 4080, but also has a considerably lower price.
What are the Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080 Super specs?
The Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080 Super specs include that it has 16GB of GDDR6X memory, a 256-bit memory bus, and more CUDA cores than the original GeForce RTX 4080.
| GPU | AD103 |
| CUDA cores | 10,240 |
| RT cores | 80 |
| Tensor cores | 320 |
| Base clock | 2295MHz |
| Boost clock | 2550MHz |
| VRAM | 16GB GDDR6X |
| Memory clock | 1400MHz (22.4Gbps effective) |
| Memory bus width | 256-bit |
| Memory bandwidth | 716.8GB/s |
| TGP | 320W |
The GeForce RTX 4080 Super has 10,240 CUDA cores, or stream processors, spread across 80 streaming multiprocessor units (SMs). This setup means the RTX 4080 Super has 80 RT cores for ray tracing, and 320 Tensor cores. As a point of comparison, the standard (and more expensive) GeForce RTX 4080 has just 9,728 CUDA cores and 72 RT cores.
The RTX 4080 Super also maintains the 256-bit memory interface and 16GB of GDDR6X memory as the original RTX 4080, which also still runs at the same speed of 1400MHz (22.4Gbps effective).
Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080 Super benchmarks
Nvidia has released its own benchmarks for the GeForce RTX 4080 Super, which show it to have the equivalent power of two GeForce RTX 3080 Ti cards while you can find our own benchmarks in our review of the card.
Nvidia’s tests come with a caveat, which is that it’s numbers are only achieved with the use of Nvidia’s DLSS 3 Frame Generation technology, which isn’t available to previous-generation Nvidia GPUs, and doesn’t work in all games. The results look good, though, with Alan Wake 2, Cyberpunk 2077, Portal RTX, and A Plague Tale: Requiem all looking to get big gains from the new GPU. Our tests back this up, with the RTX 4080 Super proving to be definitely the best card in its ~$1,000 price bracket.
If you’re not using frame generation, there’s not anywhere near as big a gap between the RTX 3080 Ti and the RTX 4080 Super, but there is a big jump from the Turing-generation RTX 2080 Super. If you’re still using an RTX 2080 Super or RTX 2080 Ti, then the RTX 4080 Super looks set to be a fantastic upgrade across the board.
Check out our RTX 4080 Super review for our full thoughts on the new Nvidia GPU.