This. They going to just discontinue the 4070 ti and 4080rumors are Nvidia is going to replace the vanilla 4080 with the 4080 Super...so I could see them being aggressive and lowering the price to $1000 to go against the 7900XTX...plus the 4080 is not selling at all...lowering it to $1000 would be a good move especially since 4090 supply will be really tight for the next few months
plus if the 4080 Super is going to have the same 16GB VRAM, same 256-bit memory bus and only 6%- 9% faster than the vanilla 4080 then there's no point having both the 4080 and 4080 Super on the market at the same time