There’s no such factor as an excessive amount of reminiscence on the subject of trendy, high-end graphics cards. Even Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 4070 and RTX 4080, beastly GPUs of their base varieties, would possibly profit from a little bit of a lift. Such a lift would possibly simply be within the works, as a sequence of leaks and rumors point out the return of the “Super” label for the RTX 40-series. A hypothetical RTX 4070 Super and 4080 Super would bump the present playing cards from 12GB to 16GB and 16GB to 24GB, respectively.

The reliable VideoCardz.com reports on a number of factors of knowledge indicating a refresh for each playing cards, the latter inserting it slightly below the GeForce RTX 4090 with its 24GB of GDDR6 video RAM. Other reported enhancements embody slight tweaks to the GPU chip with boosted reminiscence busses, going from 192 to 256 bits on the RTX 4070 Super and 256 to 320 on the RTX 4080 Super. Note that these are each placeholder names — there’s already an RTX 4070 Ti, however “RTX 4080 Ti” is also a potential moniker.

Boosting the reminiscence on the RTX 4080 is perhaps a very compelling transfer, as VideoCardz notes that 20GB of reminiscence with a 320-bit bus would match that of the Radeon RX 7900 XT. AMD would nonetheless maintain a major value benefit at that degree, assuming {that a} refreshed RTX 4080 card got here in on the similar $1200 retail value as the present one (or barely larger).

Both playing cards is perhaps value a mid-cycle refresh, since we’re not expecting the RTX 50-series until 2025. Unfortunately, concrete costs or launch dates for both card aren’t on the desk as of but. With data apparently leaking out to OEMs, a launch earlier than the Christmas season could be unlikely, with early subsequent yr being a safer wager. Assuming it occurs in any respect, after all — with nothing confirmed, and Nvidia still smarting from the canceled 12GB RTX 4080 release last year, don’t think about something set in stone simply but.