Rumor mill: There’s little doubt that Nvidia will at some point release Super variants of its RTX 5000 series, the question is whether they will address some of the issues that have made consumer Blackwell one of the worst-received graphics architectures ever. The stingy amount of VRAM has been one of the many complaints directed against the cards, but rumors say that this will improve in the Super versions.
According to claims on China’s Chiphell forums, Nvidia is preparing an RTX 5080 Super with 24GB of VRAM, up from the vanilla version’s 16GB. That would match the memory size of the RTX 4090, 3090, and 3090 Ti.
Nvidia is also said to be readying an RTX 5070 with 18GB, a 6GB increase compared to the standard card’s 12GB. This would be a new memory configuration for Nvidia as none of its previous cards have 18GB of VRAM.
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While the cards will stick with the same type of GDDR7 VRAM as the standard versions, it’s believed that they will use 3GB memory modules to enable the non-standard configurations.
While all rumors of this kind, especially those from the Chiphell forums, should be taken with a healthy dose of salt, there are some elements that lend credence to the claims, including the fact that the RTX 5090 laptop GPU uses 3GB modules and has a 24GB capacity.
Moreover, Nvidia reportedly planned on releasing a 24GB RTX 5080 but the cost and limited availability of 3GB modules resulted in it using a 16GB configuration – we even saw promo material from MSI that showed a 24GB RTX 5080, though it could have been an error on the company’s part or even a fake. There were also rumors earlier this year of a 24GB RTX 5080 variant being in the works.
A 50% increase in the cards’ memory capacity would be welcome, especially in the case of the RTX 5070, which, as we mentioned in our review, is using a 12GB memory capacity that should really be reserved for entry-level products.
However, according to one Chiphell user, the performance of the new Super models doesn’t feel that much faster than the current RTX 5000 equivalents. That would line up with the previous generation Super models: the RTX 4080 Super is just 2% faster than the RTX 4080 at 1080p, 3% faster at 1440p, and 4% faster at 4K.
Only two desktop Super graphics cards have had more memory than their standard counterparts: the RTX 2060 (6GB) / 2060 Super (8GB), and the RTX 4070 Ti (12GB) / RTX 4070 Ti Super (16GB). Again, we found the RTX 4070 Ti Super to be only around 3% to 5% faster than the RTX 4070 Ti.
It was about 15 months after the RTX 4000 series launched when the Super variants were announced. If Nvidia sticks with the same release schedule, the RTX 5000 Super cards won’t arrive until the middle of next year.