Rumors about Nvidia’s incoming RTX Super graphics cards keep getting stranger
Nvidia’s RTX Super refreshes are one of the hottest topics in the GPU rumor mill of late, and we’ve just witnessed another claim – this time supposed specs of the theoretically incoming trio of graphics cards.
Kopite7kimi, a regular leaker on the GPU front, has just shared specs indicating that the RTX 4080 Super could have 10,240 CUDA cores and be built on the AD103 GPU. In other words, it will use the same chip as the RTX 4080, but with all cores enabled (5% is disabled with the vanilla RTX 4080).
Well, if everything you said is okay, we’ll see: RTX 4080 Super, AD103-400, 10240FP32; RTX 4070 Ti Super, AD103-275 or AD102-175, 8448FP32, 48M L2; RTX 4070 Super, AD104-350 or AD103-175, 7168FP32, 48M L2. I still have doubts about them, especially the Ti Super. I can’t completely agree.October 28, 2023
The RTX 4070 Super would use AD104, with 7,168 CUDA cores, which is lower than that chip’s full configuration of 7,680 cores, as seen in the 4070 Ti. Or it could use AD103, the leaker claims, reduced to the same number of cores. Either way, it would sit just below the RTX 4070 Ti.
Finally, we have the intermediate model, the RTX 4070 Ti Super, and this could use AD103, reduced to 8,448 CUDA cores, or perhaps even AD102, thinks Kopite7kimi. The last is the GPU that powers the RTX 4090, so these would be chips that fell well below flagship level (due to defective cores, which would be disabled if the chip were reused for a graphics card from a lower level) .
Analysis: Stay skeptical
Why AD102 would be repurposed for the RTX 4070 Ti Super, rather than the 4080 Super, doesn’t quite make sense to us – and we even doubt AD102 will be used in any of these alleged refreshes at all.
Especially since Nvidia’s AD102 chips that aren’t suitable for the RTX 4090 are certainly better reused elsewhere than a 4070 Ti Super. Or even a Super refresh – as we’ve discussed before, less-than-perfect AD102 silicon could be repurposed into RTX 5000 (AI-focused heavyweight) graphics cards to a much greater effect in terms of profit margins.
That said, Kopite7kimi admits that they are ‘still unsure about the specs’ and especially the 4070 Ti Super, and that they don’t fully agree with the sources – so remain even more skeptical about these spec predictions.
The leaker also makes it clear that the information is several weeks old, and since we’ve been hearing so many different spec rumors lately, we get the feeling the specs are quite up in the air (and exact models and names, perhaps). If this was Nvidia’s plan a few weeks ago, it may not be the case now, and everything could change again next month – so weigh in very heavily on the salt with this leak.
What we can be fairly certain of is that Nvidia will have RTX Super refreshes coming in some form, and probably quite early in 2024 – so specs could be confirmed soon enough. The RTX 4080 Super was just listed in HWiNFO, a system monitoring tool, and last week this card was also spotted in a PCI ID repository, suggesting we could see it appear early next year.
That wouldn’t be surprising if Nvidia has to focus on the upper mid-range of the GPU market and the RTX 4080’s serious failure in that area (if the copious talk of terrible sales is to be believed, of course).
The RTX 4080 Super specs shared here seem like the most obvious path for Nvidia to follow – namely unleashing the full power of AD103 (which is missing 5% of the cores in the vanilla 4080), where further performance could be are achieved through performance. clock speeds (and therefore power consumption).
Be that as it may, with the reputation the RTX 4080 has acquired, Nvidia will likely want to make the Super variant a much better-received offering, one that could well earn a place on our list of the best graphics cards out there are.
Through VideoCardz