Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Super GPUs could power PCs and laptops next year

Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Super GPUs could ability PCs and laptops side by side yr

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Nvidia merely recently launched the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti, but now information technology'southward rumored to be bringing two more loftier-end graphics cards to the scene in 2022: the GeForce RTX 3080 Super and the GeForce RTX 3070 Super.

VideoCardz originally reported that the two GPUs are mobile processors, rather than desktop PC cards, and volition available early next year. However, this study was quote-tweeted by noted leaker kopite7kimi, who claimed the GeForce RTX 3080 Super and the GeForce RTX 3070 Super won't just exist coming to laptops.

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Of form, none of this is fifty-fifty close to beingness officially confirmed, though kopite7kimi is one of the more reliable loftier-profile leakers out there; back in Feb they correctly tipped off that the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti was incoming and had dropped from 20GB or 12GB of video memory. Equally such, this rumor may exist worth paying attention to.

Nvidia introduced "Super" branding on the previous generation's GeForce RTX twenty-series graphics cards, with models like the GeForce RTX 2080 Super and GeForce RTX 2070 Super that offered modest operation improvements over their non-Super equivalents without drastically changing the underlying tech. The GeForce RTX 30-series has been wrought with stock shortage bug since launch, but instead of focusing on its side by side-gen cards Nvidia could conceivably repeat the introduction of more than powerful Super models.

VideoCardz'south study suggested that both the GeForce RTX 3080 Super and the GeForce RTX 3070 Super, or at to the lowest degree the supposed mobile versions, could potentially use a new Nvidia GA103 graphics processor. Both will allegedly stick with the GDDR6 VRAM amounts of the existing, non-Super cards: 8GB for the GeForce RTX 3070 Super and 16GB for the GeForce RTX 3080 Super.

If there really are desktop versions coming as well, they might pose quite the conundrum for anyone who'due south still waiting to observe GeForce RTX 3080 stock. Especially if, as many PC owners are, they're already on a waiting list for one of the electric current cards: should you lot stay the course and agree out for the original buy, or cancel the guild and depository financial institution on existence able to grab one of the newer, more powerful Super GPUs?

It would exist a tough dilemma if stock shortages are nevertheless plaguing the PC hardware market place in a few months' time. It's difficult to say if it will, as there are signs pointing in opposite means: in China, some former cryptocurrency miners are selling their graphics cards at MSRP or below, while in Vietnam i retailer has been selling extremely rare, limited edition GPUs as ready-made mining setups.

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James is currently Hardware Editor at Rock Paper Shotgun, but before that was Sound Editor at Tom's Guide, where he covered headphones, speakers, soundbars and anything else that intentionally makes noise. A PC enthusiast, he also wrote calculating and gaming news for TG, unremarkably relating to how hard information technology is to notice graphics card stock.