wccftech – RUMOR/LEAK:  NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 SUPER Lineup Gets Rumored Specs: 3090 SUPER 10752 Cores & 24 GB, 3080 SUPER 8960 Cores & 12 GB, 3070 SUPER 5888 Cores & 8 GB, 3060 SUPER 5632 Cores & 12 GB
 
“Alleged specifications of NVIDIA's Ampere Refresh for desktops, also known as GeForce RTX 30 SUPER, have been revealed by Kopite7kimi. The leaker is well known and has been accurate on several leaks in the past, in fact even SKUs that didn't make it in the retail segment did end up showing in one form or another.
 
The thing about these specifications is that NVIDIA is always testing various configurations for new SKUs. Sometimes, these SKUs see the light of day while sometimes, certain SKUs are replaced by different ones. It all depends on GPU production, supply, and yields. With the GeForce RTX 30 GPU lineup, we saw several Ampere SKUs that were planned out but never made it in retail.
 
This doesn't mean that the previously reported SKUs were fake, they were very real but they were never utilized for a proper release and were forgotten. NVIDIA shares plans with their AIB partners of such SKUs and even shares board & certain qualification chip supplies with them. That's how the 20 GB 3080 Ti, which was never meant to be, ended up in some Russian retail outlet.
 
The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 SUPER and this is expected to be a Titan-class card once again. Kopite says that he doesn't think NVIDIA will use the 3090 SUPER naming convention & go with something else considering that this is one of their top-tier product. As for the specs, 3090 SUPER is expected to rock the full GA102 GPU core with 10752 cores and 24 GB GDDR6X memory. The memory will be faster-clocked thanks to improved dies from Micron, pushing speeds past 20 Gbps. The pricing may be kept the same at $1499 US (MSRP) but overall, we are looking at a minor 5% improvement.
 
The GeForce RTX 3080 SUPER, NVIDIA is expected to use 70 SMs for a total of 8960 CUDA cores. Now there are rumors of a GA103 GPU been going around for a while now & the RTX 3080 SUPER may end up using that but we can't say for sure. The card will rock a 12 GB GDDR6X memory along with a 384-bit bus interface and will also feature faster-clocked DRAM modules.
 
The card seems to be positioned between the RTX 3080 and the RTX 3080 Ti with a 3% core count increase over the non-Ti variant. It will be nice to have 2 extra gigs of memory over the 10 GB of the Non-Ti variant, especially if it's priced at $699 US (MSRP). In terms of performance, the card will be slightly below the 3080 Ti (say around 95% of the performance). If true, the RTX 3080 Ti would make very little sense to purchase since the 3080 SUPER will offer similar performance for $500 US less.
 
The GeForce RTX 3070 SUPER, this is going to be a slightly less interesting part as NVIDIA only plans to update the card to the faster GDDR6X memory while retaining the core specs such as 5888 CUDA cores. Again, this would push the card little in terms of performance but it may end up getting close to its Ti counterpart, the 3070 Ti, for a lower price point.
 
The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 SUPER is expected to offer specifications better than the RTX 3060 Ti with 5632 CUDA Cores in 44 SM units and 12 GB of GDDR6 memory. So you are getting 4 GB more memory over the RTX 3060 Ti along with 16% more CUDA cores which could lead to performance right on par with a GeForce RTX 3070 graphics card.  NVIDIA may retain the same price too at $399 US as that would be highly competitive against AMD's Radeon RX 6700 XT and RX 6600 XT graphics cards which cost $479 & $379 US, respectively.
 
The RTX 30 SUPER lineup is expected to be introduced by the end of this year or early Q1 (most probably during CES 2022).”
 
My thoughts:  Remember this is a leak/rumor.  I believe these releases will be much the same as other 30 series, i.e., no stock and for general sales, above MSRP.
 

Sajin
Lol. If the 3090 super is real it won’t stay the same price as the 3090. We are talking about nvidia here. Higher prices are the norm on newer products.

Taking a swag, at least plus 5-7%.  Another hunch I have is that the lower SKUs will slowly disappear.

The Super is a modest upgrade at best, but more importantly the Super is Nvidia increasing their profit margins per die/wafer, since they can't change the contracts on the original cards.  I'd be shocked if we didn't see a fair price jump here (all considering that every company around the globe is facing cost increases at the moment).
Also worth pointing out: do some of the lower end Ti's become obsolete?  

Based on the MSRP of newer NVIDIA products, NVIDIA must have decided that its MSRP for the 3080 and 3090 was too low. If a 3080 SUPER and/or 3090 SUPER is released, I would expect its MSRP to be higher and I would expect the o4iginal 3080 and/or 3090 would be no longer manufactured and phased out of the supply chain in order to not cannibalize SUPER sales.

Like a whirlpool around and around,"3080 SUPER will offer similar performance for $500 US less"
Rumor has it when a card lands on a riser cable waiting. $500 less plus ya know time will tell.

With the recent ban on crypto in China, maybe a new set of cards will actually be available for consumers early next year. I think the biggest problem will be the fact that a crazy amount of different SKUs for current cards will make buying a "super" card somewhat rough for most new consumers.