Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080 Super
LONG AGO, before the reign of the Supers, there was a graphics card. It was bold, gauche, and built with the blood of a Titan, with gaming in mind. Its heart was near identical to the goliath it was born from, yet it lacked the memory, spirit, absolute architectural majesty, and subsequent price tag of its Titanic kin.
Instead, this humble card was known simply as a Ti—Titanium, often with the number 80 before it. It was the ultimate gaming workhorse. It lacked the Tensor majesty and professional level technicality of its fullfledged, four-digit priced sibling, and instead gave us, the PC gamers, access to performance hitherto unseen before for a fraction of the price.
These two cards here, ladies and gentlemen, with their RTX 4080 Super beating hearts, are the spiritual successors to the Tis of old. They don’t have the absolute monstrous transistor count, or the memory capacity of the 4090, but what they lack in developer drama, they make up for in gaming dominance at, finally, a sub-$1,000 price tag.