Nvidia's Super refresh line of updated RTX 40-series graphics cards continues with the launch of the RTX 4070 Ti Super - an ungainly-named arrival that seeks to replace the non-Super counterpart, offering a range of upgrades: more memory bandwidth, more CUDA cores and 16GB of framebuffer memory - for the same money. On paper, the specs look good, but in reality, Nvidia needs to strike a balance here: we can't expect the card to be within striking distance of the existing RTX 4080, because the specs suggest that 4080 Super won't be much better. Push too hard on 4070 Ti Super and there'll be no market for the next Super.
The specs do look good, however. The RTX 4070 Ti Super is based on the same AD103 silicon as the RTX 4080, automatically giving it an advantage over the RTX 4070 Ti non-Super, which used the lower-performing AD104. The Ti Super has 8488 CUDA cores - 10 percent more than its predecessor and 87 percent of the 4080's complement. Meanwhile, the new card has a 100MHz boost clock advantage over the RTX 4080.
AD103 silicon also means that the 70-series class gets a 256-bit memory bus, up from the 192-bit interface in the non-Super predecessor and an impressive 33 percent increase to bandwidth. And there's more - not only does AD103's 256-bit interface enable 16GB of memory, it means users get the improved media block with dual video encoders. AD104 on the non-Super just got a single encoder. I actually use an RTX 4080 in my workstation for Adobe Premiere work and just a little gaming: the RTX 4070 Ti Super works just as well.