They've been announced, we've got a couple of them in-hand and humming away in the test rig as I type, and the new RTX 40-series Super cards will all be available for us to buy by the end of the month. But as much as the Ada refresh is welcome, it's hard not to see at least the RTX 4080 Super as a tacit admission that Nvidia got its pricing very wrong on the original second-tier GeForce GPU.
There's no denying shaving $200 off the original $1,200 price tag of the RTX 4080 is a good look. We're over a year on from its original launch and the mildly updated RTX 4080 Super—with its slightly more powerful AD103 chip and slightly quicker GDDR6X memory—isn't going to deliver much in the way of a performance improvement. So a big price drop is the only way to make the new card feel like a tangible advance.
