- It is rumored that Nvidia again has super variants RTX 5080 and 5070 incoming with 24 GB and 18 GB of Vram
- They could also be very overclocated and could increase performance up to 15% compared to their vanilla versions.
- The price will be crucial, and Nvidia may be so concerned about AMD RX 9000 family that could continue with the same MSRP as RTX 5080 and 5070
We are listening to more gossip from the GPU Grapevine about what Nvidia could have incoming in the form of the super variants of their graphics cards RTX 5080 and 5070.
After rumors about these possible updates to the existing Blackwell GPUs that float last week, insisting that the RTX 5080 Super will increase the amount of video RAM to 24 GB (from 16 GB), we have heard of a regular filter on YouTube on this subject.
In a new video (see below), Moore’s law is dead is rushed to point out that none of the information that has concrete plans of Nvidia, which also corresponds to previous rumors, but however it is interesting to chew the supposed thought within the company at this time.
That it is, according to a source in one of the partners of the NVIDIA graphics card, which has been GPU RTX 5080 with 24 GB and RTX 5070 boards with 18 GB in laboratories since last year.
In other words, the tests on such models have been happening for half a year (or more, and several rumors also date back in some way). However, Nvidia told card manufacturers that these variants are “waiting” until the situation around Ram videos improves, to make price tags in these alleged overlapping models overponely overlap for PC players, or until Nvidia see if these variants are really necessary based on what AMD is doing.
However, there has been a new development last week, since the source states that Nvidia now says that RTX 5080 and 5070 Super Graphics cards are now “probably” at some point in 2025.
Apparently, these will be highly overclocated versions of these two GPUs with the respective 24 GB and 18 GB load that have already been strongly rumored (compared to 16 GB and 12 GB currently).
Of course, be careful with this statement, but even more careful with speculation about the increase in performance that this could provide. The source believes that we will see Super Graphics cards that are between 7% and 15% faster than the Vanilla RTX 5080 and 5070.
What about the price? That is not yet confirmed, as you suppose since we are not close to the launch. However, according to the source, Nvidia could be looking to keep the MRSP of the same current price labels for RTX 5080 and 5070, or alternatively, applying a slight increase (perhaps 10%, or 20% perhaps for RTX 5080 24 GB, YouTuber subjects).
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A yield gain in the order from 10% to 15% would be impressive for the super variants that use the same nuclei counts as the Vanilla RTX 5080 and 5070. That is because those (theoretical) gains occur completely from the increase in VRM and the increase in watches (for a little, I suppose that, which will also take off of energy use, it must be noted).
It is worth remembering that the increase in VRM by 6-8 GB could make a big difference with certain games in some scenarios, where this capacity is more important. And that the aforementioned performance gain would carry the RTX 5080 Super to more or less coincide with the table speeds delivered by the RTX 4090.
If Nvidia is really considering keeping prices at the same level as RTX 5080 and 5070 while giving the players that type of impulse, it does show that it is certainly about saying goodbye in AMD. As the source indicates, the RX 9000 ha series ‘scared’ NVIDIA and we are certainly seeing the red team winning GPU grass in the battle of the graphics cards of the current generation.
Therefore, I am not surprised that Nvidia feels heat, and could be considering launching RTX 5080 and 5070 super versions that reach the shelves much more tempting potential purchases. The latter is particularly necessary, because as we have seen, the Vanilla RTX 5070 GPU received a warm reception, and it seems that sales have been unstable, and that is the battlefield of medium key range with AMD.
Actually, there are now RTX 5070 actions in the main retailers, and prices are not so bad for these models either. Although, of course, if a convincing Super RTX 5070 arrives, launched to the same MSRP (or perhaps only 10% more), that could create a great splash. And then Nvidia would need to guarantee a robust supply or face criticism again on the stock front.
That is why if these super updates are really happening, I am anticipating that they will not arrive until later in 2025. No, unless Nvidia is really sweating on how much discreet participation in the GPU AMD market is swallowing (and Team Green also has the ability to produce production lines properly).
