TECH NEWS – It seems that Nvidia is planning to build on the Blackwell architecture with its Super cards, as two more powerful models have been revealed…
The “greens” have had a rather troubled start with the GeForce RTX 5000 cards, especially in the higher-end products. Crashing drivers, missing ROPs, stock shortages… and we could go on. Nevertheless, Nvidia might try to fix everything with Super cards, as it was revealed on ChipHell that the company is definitely planning two of these cards, as there might be Super versions of the RTX 5080 and RTX 5070. Not much is known about them yet, only that the former could have 24 GB and the latter 18 GB of VRAM, GDDR7 of course.
They will probably use 3GB GDDR7 memory modules, similar to the GeForce RTX 5090 laptop GPU. MSI has revealed details of a GeForce RTX 5080 with 24GB of on-board memory, so it’s likely that the manufacturer is going for a super model. According to Chiphell, the performance of the new super cards won’t be much different from the existing models, so for now we’re not sure what to expect from the newer versions other than the fact that there will be 50% more VRAM on the cards (16 GB on the RTX 5080 and 12 GB on the RTX 5070).
Super cards should have better availability as this is the only way for the company to position itself in a more dominant position. Since Nvidia has no competition in this segment of video cards (which is bad enough because it makes companies complacent…), they don’t have much to worry about. But they have to worry about Trump’s accusations, because it will lead to price increases.
While the 24 GB GeForce RTX 5080 Super won’t necessarily have much of an advantage in gaming, it could definitely benefit from the extra VRAM in other memory-intensive tasks, such as AI workloads. The RTX 5070 Super could at least be a decent 2K, 4K card. We’ll probably hear about it officially for the first time at Computex, as Super cards usually arrive a year after the base models… until then, it’s just a rumor!
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