Nividia 40 Series Super graphic cards

Preparing to give a "special address" at this year's CES in Las Vegas, Nvidia is rumored to be revealing multiple RTX Super GPUs. With two weeks to go until the event, regulatory filings from Nvidia's partners are starting to surface, confirming some of the specifications of the upcoming GPUs. According to these filings, the RTX 4070 GPUs will receive a significant makeover, while the RTX 4080 Super will only receive minor enhancements. Of course, pricing is still unknown, but we'll find out soon enough.

On January 8th at 8 a.m. PST, Nvidia will make a presentation wherein it is anticipated to showcase "AI innovations." The RTX 4080 Super, RTX 4070 Ti Super, and RTX 4070 Super are the three new Super GPUs that the company will be revealing, but this seems to be the recurring theme throughout the entire show this year. Nvidia's future plans appear to be revealed by regulatory filings from MSI that Videocardz discovered, and it appears that the RTX 4070 series cards will receive significant updates. Twelve new GPUs are being prepared by the company for launch; four of each SKU will be available. Additionally, Gigabyte is teasing its next GPUs, which are anticipated to include more than 30 Super cards.

The RTX 4070 Ti Super is the GPU that will experience the largest upgrade, going from a 12GB card with a 192-bit memory bus to a 16GB GPU with a 256-bit memory bus. Additionally, it will get a slight increase in CUDA cores, from 7680 to 8448. Its anticipated 285W power consumption means that its GDDR6X memory speed of 21 Gb/s is also expected to stay constant. It will be interesting to see if the $799 MSRP of the launch version of this card is maintained in order to better position the Super version against the roughly $779 20GB Radeon 7900 XT.

Although the RTX 4070 Super retains its original 192-bit memory bus and 12GB of GDDR6X memory, it looks to be getting a significant boost in CUDA core count. It will have 7168 CUDA cores instead of 5888, a significant 21% increase. It was $599 at launch, but AMD's RX 7800 XT, which costs $549, has put it in danger, so it will be interesting to see what Nvidia does in this area as well.

Lastly, the RTX 4080 Super, which seems to be receiving the least significant upgrade possible, is mentioned. It will continue to use the AD103 die and have the same 16GB RAM configuration as its predecessor, rather than moving to the larger AD102 die and receiving a memory bump as has been speculated. It is now reportedly only getting a small increase in CUDA cores, from 9728 to 10240, or merely 5% more. Considering the minor modifications, we anticipate that it will be available for the same $1,199 price as the original card; however, Nvidia might make it much more appealing by lowering the cost to $999.