Nvidia sure has been fixing the biggest problems in its high-end GeForce RTX 40-series graphics card lineup with the recently announced “Super” series of refreshes. First, the RTX 4070 Super added 15 to 20 percent more performance to better fight AMD’s Radeon RX 7800 XT rival. Then, the RTX 4070 Ti Super upgraded the original’s memory system to better run games at 4K. Better yet, those cards still cost the same as their non-Super predecessors.
The biggest problem with the original RTX 4080? Its price. There was no denying its potency, but the 4080 debuted at $1,200, a staggering $500 more than last generation’s RTX 3080—a 71 percent price increase for a mere 30 percent performance increase. Ick.
While the new GeForce RTX 4080 Super indeed offers some small speed increases, Nvidia once again aimed to plug the original’s weak spot. The RTX 4080 Super costs $999, a $200 improvement over the vanilla version (which is being discontinued).
Is it enough to make GeForce RTX 4080 Super competitive with AMD’s Radeon RX 7900 XTX, our current pick for? Let’s take Nvidia’s own Founders Edition model for a spin and find out.
