Saturday, January 2nd 2021
NVIDIA Could Give a SUPER Overhaul to its GeForce RTX 3070 and RTX 3080 Graphics Cards
According to kopite7kimi, a famous leaker of information about NVIDIA graphics cards, we have some pieces of data about NVIDIA's plans to bring back its SUPER series of graphics cards. The SUPER graphics cards have first appeared in the GeForce RTX 2000 series "Turing" GPUs with GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER and RTX 2070 SUPER designs, after which RTX 2060 followed. Thanks to the source, we have information that NVIDIA plans to give its newest "Ampere" 3000 series of GeForce RTX GPUs a SUPER overhaul. Specifically, the company allegedly plans to introduce GeForce RTX 3070 SUPER and RTX 3080 SUPER SKUs to its offerings.
While there is no concrete information about the possible specifications of these cards, we can speculate that just like the previous SUPER upgrade, new cards would receive an upgrade in CUDA core count, and possibly a memory improvement. The last time a SUPER upgrade happened, NVIDIA just added more cores to the GPU and overclocked the GDDR6 memory and thus increased the memory bandwidth. We have to wait and see how the company plans to position these alleged cards and if we get them at all, so take this information with a grain of salt.
This is only a mock-up image and is not representing a real product.
Sources:
@kopite7kimi (Twitter), via VideoCardz
While there is no concrete information about the possible specifications of these cards, we can speculate that just like the previous SUPER upgrade, new cards would receive an upgrade in CUDA core count, and possibly a memory improvement. The last time a SUPER upgrade happened, NVIDIA just added more cores to the GPU and overclocked the GDDR6 memory and thus increased the memory bandwidth. We have to wait and see how the company plans to position these alleged cards and if we get them at all, so take this information with a grain of salt.
105 Comments on NVIDIA Could Give a SUPER Overhaul to its GeForce RTX 3070 and RTX 3080 Graphics Cards
*Gives encouragement tap to the ol' 1070*
It's not like AMD was already planning a refresh or refined node update of their Radeon 6000 series either (say, to TSMC 6nm or updated bandwidth or improved Infinity Cache); and aside from RT performance , all the cards trade blows pretty evenly (save for the 3090 that mostly beats the 6900XT). They still win on the RT front, so they could have afforded to wait a bit; ideally, until stock finally leveled out or they built up enough actual material reserve to produce SUPERs without limited stock.
Then again, maybe they're trying to be Apple and insist on constant must-have upgrades, and have the hardcore fans buy into the new SUPERs at marked up prices while selling off their early gen 3070s/3080s at whatever the current scalping average is; which conveniently floods the market with both new and used 3070s/3080s to replenish stock.
Also the 3060 is coming this month at CES, possibly a SUPER for that as well?
One thing I'm almost certain of: the Ti's will be faster than the SUPERs, as they always have been.
Sick and tired of this unobtanium-vaporware stuff. And now even Super version of it! At least when 1080Ti was on the market with decent stock, first nVidia mining craze hit. You could actually buy these cards for a good while (even if retailers started scalping also very early - Caseking was probably worst and earliest in EU). Now we have no cards, no stock, no choice what to buy and pricing is already so far from what it should be... I really wish no cards were released at all.
Until selling VGAs is not tied in some way to specific personal data like for example ID+Social Sec # or insurance #, passport. So you can actually buy 1 darn card per person with certified confirmation of ID we, normal users, will have to deal with this shit every single time.
Otherwise my old 1070ti's in SLi still running strong was playing old DOOM last night 100 FPS average 4k just running sweet.
1. AMD have something up their sleeve.
2. Nvidia has lots of die's that are not making the cut.
At this rate I'd wager the best they can manage is a 3080/3070 super/ti that is 10% faster than its original counterpart, that doesn't immediately make your 3070/3080 slow. One way or another they were always destined to be superceded, best be at peace with that from the get go or you'll always be dissapointed.
Preorder any product or more specifically a gpu and get told on day one that its not available and you have to wait 6 months. Bet ild sue for fraud aka bait and switch, and deliberately overselling a product they cant provide and not offering some form of compensation or substitute for the lack of availability on DAY 1 when youve already paid for the product in full is flat out fraud.
Im going to preorder the 4080 ti 20gb variant in a hybrid. if its 1200 or whatever it doesnt matter. and if it isnt here DAY 1 when those models are supposed to launch? well we will cross that bridge when we come to it ;)
And dont just take the legal stuff from me, even though i do youtube videos helping parents keep their kids from being kidnapped by state contracted employees aka cps/dhs. And have defended myself in court over 9 times and have never lost. Take it from the FTC. And this is if you order ANYTHING and it doesnt show up. the reason it would be different with nvidia is because this has happened multiple times. anyone remember the 980ti launch? or the 1080ti launch? the 2080ti launch wasnt as bad because the price was so much higher than before and the performance increase wasnt as substantial as the other 2 had. www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0221-billed-merchandise-you-never-received
NVIDIA 5 nm Lovelace AD102 is the 40 series.
Yep knew superduper was coming now get the 3080TI done :-)