When we reviewed the RTX 4080 Super at the end of January, we noted that it only offered minor performance improvements over the RTX 4080, but the $200 cut in MSRP was a welcome change. I didn't think demand for the RTX 4080 Super would drive prices up much, but at least for six weeks, that proved to be wrong. In February, the least expensive RTX 4080 Super we could find was often in the $1,300 or higher range — and the same was true of the 'discontinued' vanilla RTX 4080 cards. The 4080 Super should be one of the best graphics cards, but a 30% price premium compared to MSRP makes it much harder to recommend.
Thankfully, the situation has improved in the past few weeks. With many AI companies apparently willing to buy RTX 4090 cards, that pushed prices on the fastest consumer GPU up to $2,000 and more, and we worried the RTX 4080 Super as the second fastest graphics card would suffer a similar fate. Now, the RTX 4090 can be found for $1,669 — granted, most still start at $1,799 and up — and the RTX 4080 Super starts at $999. (You may also want to try putting a notification on the Asus store where the 4090 TUF Gaming still sits at $1,599, though it's frequently out of stock.)
These aren't price cuts but rather price corrections where the base prices are now getting at or at least closer to the official MSRP. Hopefully, that's because supply has caught up to demand and we won't see higher prices going forward, but only time will tell. And since we're already talking about GPU pricing, let's also look at the other Nvidia Ada Lovelace RTX 40-series GPUs as well as AMD and Intel cards.
