There’s no such thing as too much memory when it comes to modern, high-end graphics cards. Even Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 4070 and RTX 4080, beastly GPUs in their base forms, might benefit from a bit of a boost. Such a boost might just be in the works, as a series of leaks and rumors indicate the return of the “Super” label for the RTX 40-series. A hypothetical RTX 4070 Super and 4080 Super would bump the current cards from 12GB to 16GB and 16GB to 24GB, respectively.
The reliable VideoCardz.com reports on multiple points of data indicating a refresh for both cards, the latter placing it just below the GeForce RTX 4090 with its 24GB of GDDR6 video RAM. Other reported enhancements include slight tweaks to the GPU chip with boosted memory busses, going from 192 to 256 bits on the RTX 4070 Super and 256 to 320 on the RTX 4080 Super. Note that these are both placeholder names — there’s already an RTX 4070 Ti, but “RTX 4080 Ti” could also be a possible moniker.
Boosting the memory on the RTX 4080 might be a particularly compelling move, as VideoCardz notes that 20GB of memory with a 320-bit bus would match that of the Radeon RX 7900 XT. AMD would still hold a significant price advantage at that level, assuming that a refreshed RTX 4080 card came in at the same $1200 retail price as the current one (or slightly higher).
Both cards might be worth a mid-cycle refresh, since we’re not expecting the RTX 50-series until 2025. Unfortunately, concrete prices or release dates for either card aren’t on the table as of yet. With information apparently leaking out to OEMs, a release before the Christmas season would be unlikely, with early next year being a safer bet. Assuming it happens at all, of course — with nothing confirmed, and Nvidia still smarting from the canceled 12GB RTX 4080 release last year, don’t consider anything set in stone just yet.
