Rumors are appearing about a new lineup of Nvidia Super graphics cards that have 50% more memory than the current models. Making use of new 3GB GDDR7 chips, the new Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 Super and 5070 Super could respectively have 8GB and 4GB more VRAM than the existing cards.
While the RTX 5090 has a massive 32GB of VRAM at its disposal, not everyone can afford to spend over $1,999 on the RTX 5070 review, this $549 GPU can't max out some of the latest games at 1080p, let alone higher resolutions, and that's down to its memory rather than its GPU power.
Likewise, in my RTX 5080 review, I found that Indiana Jones and the Great Circle fell over if you enabled the Full RT path tracing mode at 4K, which is a disappointment for a GPU that costs a massive $999 at MSRP, if you can even find it at that price. If this latest rumor is correct, though, Nvidia may be quietly listening to this and finally addressing the shortfall of memory in a future range of Super-branded GPUs.
Over on the Chiphell forums, regular Nvidia tech leaker panzerlied has named the RTX 5080 Super and 5070 Super as cards that will use 3GB GDDR7 chips, and followed up with their capacities in a later post as 24GB and 18GB respectively. This would suggest that there's no change in the bus width of both GPUs compared to the current cards, with the new VRAM basically being a drop-in replacement for the 16GB and 12GB cards.
While panzerlied has been hit and miss when it comes to some Nvidia leaks, the Chiphell poster has been known to hit the nail on the head, including predicting that the RTX 5090 Founders Edition would have a dual-slot cooler back in May 2024, seven months before the card was eventually unveiled at CES in January 2025.
This isn't the first time we've seen rumors of an RTX 5080 24GB card with 3GB GDDR7 memory chips, but we'd previously expected it to be a new variation of the RTX 5080, rather than a Super-branded card.
Both rumors could be true, though. It's quite possible that RTX 5080 24GB cards could arrive later this year, with an RTX 5080 Super card following in 2026, also with 24GB of VRAM, but perhaps with other specs improvements, such as higher clock speeds. The RTX 5080's GB203 GPU is already fully enabled, so it's not going to get more CUDA cores unless Nvidia moves the rumored RTX 5080 Super to a new GPU.
The one that could really help Nvidia, though, is the rumored RTX 5070 18GB Super, meaning the mid-range card would have more memory than the Radeon RX 9070. As I found in my recent RTX 5060 Ti review, even this $429 card can run games at settings that are impossible to achieve on the RTX 5070, simply because it has 4GB more memory available.
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