Is Nvidia Announcing RTX 40 Series SUPER Cards at CES 2024?

10.11.2023 - 15:29 / pczone.co.uk

Nvidia has just sent out invitations for a “special address” during the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show in January. This announcement follows tons of speculation that Nvidia’s RTX 40-series Super cards, such as the RTX 4070 Super and RTX 4080 Super, will make their debut at CES 2024.

The invitation from Nvidia does not explicitly mention GeForce, and details about the presenter for the keynote on January 8th at 11 AM ET / 8 AM PT remain undisclosed.

In recent weeks, hardware leakers have “disclosed information” about the RTX 4080 and RTX 4070 Super cards. The more potent RTX 4080 Super is rumoured to feature 20GB of VRAM, an increase from the current 16GB in RTX 4080 models. A very welcome improvement.

The speculated RTX 4070 and RTX 4080 Super cards are also expected to boast a higher memory bus than their existing counterparts. Should Nvidia unveil new Super cards for the RTX 40-series, it would be the first release of Super versions for Nvidia GPUs since the 20-series in 2019.

Famed leaker kopite7kimi (great name, champ) has gushed some specs onto Twitter that claim various hardware identifiers, although he even doubts how accurate the info may be. Check it out:

Well, if everything you said OK, we will see:
RTX 4080 Super, AD103-400, 10240FP32;
RTX 4070 Ti Super, AD103-275 or AD102-175, 8448FP32, 48M L2;
RTX 4070 Super, AD104-350 or AD103-175, 7168FP32, 48M L2.
I still doubt with them, especially the Ti Super. I cannot fully agree.

The RTX 4080 Super seems to be the real game-changer, bridging the gap between the regular RTX 4080 and the reigning 4K champ RTX 4090.

As for the RTX 4070 Ti Super and 4070 Super? Rumour has it we may see a mix of two different chips for each card. This allows the company some flexibility in manufacturing as long they meet the set specifications for each card. Make sense?

Chip binning has also been mentioned, which has ultra-nerds worried about subtly different performance profiles between cards depending on whether binning has been used. Calm down, egghead. Geez.

Anyway, I’m sure we’ll learn all we need to know at CES 2024. The question is, do we even need SUPER 40 series cards? If it leads to decent price cuts on the current crop I’d be happy with that.