News Asus unveils RTX 4080 Super Noctua Edition ahead of launch, just before the RTX 4080 version gets discontinued

[Admin]

Asus quietly unveiled its latest Noctua edition graphics card, the RTX 4080 Super Noctua Edition. The new model appears to be a minor refresh over the existing 4080 variant designed to succeed it when Nvidia discontinues the RTX 4080 altogether tomorrow.

Asus unveils RTX 4080 Super Noctua Edition ahead of launch, just before the RTX 4080 version gets discontinued : Read more

 

[peachpuff]

Ah yes beige and 70's brown, those are the colors that I want on my GPU... said no one ever.

 

[The Historical Fidelity]

So I just did the calculations for the founders edition 4080 super and, based on specs alone, we should see a maximum uplift of 9.7% vs a founders edition vanilla 4080 (insert specs-to-theoretical performance calculations caveats here). If you are sitting on a rtx 2000 series or an rx 5000 series I’d say it might be worth it depending on rationale. 9.7% more performance for a 20% discount vs vanilla 4080. It’s still not great value, but it’s better than it was. If it had 20 GB of VRAM for $999 this thing would sell like hot cakes.

 

[edzieba]

Ah yes beige and 70's brown, those are the colors that I want on my GPU... said no one ever.

Said enough people to sustain 4 different SKUs over 3 (well, 2 and a half) generations.

Just as there are people who choose rainbow unicorn vomit over performance, there are those who choose performance over rainbow unicorn vomit.

 

[bit_user]

Ah yes beige and 70's brown, those are the colors that I want on my GPU... said no one ever.

It's funny that you should say this! I just helped someone spec a new PC where he decided he was willing to spend a couple hundred $ replacing all 5 case fans with Noctua, purely because he likes how their color scheme matches the wood-paneled case he's using.

He'd never even heard of Noctua, before, but saw pictures of someone else using that case with their NH-D15 cooler and decided he liked the look. So, he picked that CPU cooler, just based on the color of the fan and opted to replace the rest of the fans. I guess it's good luck that happens to be one of the best air coolers, then!

It's the first time I've ever heard of someone buying Noctua specifically because of the beige & brown color scheme!
: D

I wonder what he'd think of these GPUs...

(For the record, I'll state that card does indeed look strange to my eyes. Perhaps, seeing it inside the right case could change things?)

 

[bit_user]

9.7% more performance for a 20% discount vs vanilla 4080. It’s still not great value, but it’s better than it was. If it had 20 GB of VRAM for $999 this thing would sell like hot cakes.

When the original RTX 4000 series launched, I calculated the RTX 4080 was an outlier, relative to the 4070 Ti and 4090. Instead of $1200, it should've been priced more like $1050, in order to provide similar TFLOPS/$, GB/s/$ and GB/$ as the other two. I'll have to rerun those numbers against the lower-tier Super refreshes, but I think the RTX 4080 Super is going to be a bit more in line at $1k, and definitely provide a better value than the RTX 4090.

 

[ezst036]

Looks like it takes up 4 slots.