In just a few short days, the RTX 5050 will hit store shelves, but it seems that behind the scenes Nvidia are working on a Super refresh for the RTX 50 series of cards. If you’ve closely followed Nvidia’s previous generation of GeForce products, the launch of Super (or some kind of refresh) probably won’t be much of a surprise and so, here we are again.
The RTX 5070 Super and RTX 5070 Ti Super have both seen updated specs; with the primary improvement to the specifications being the GPU’s memory configuration.
Starting out with the RTX 5070 Super, it will leverage the PG147-SKU65 board, with the GB205-400-A1 die, slong with 6400 CUDA Cores (50SM) and 192-bit GDDR7 memory, but sporting 18GB memory it seems. Comparing this against the RTX 5070 vanilla, we see an increase of 2SM, and while the memory bus remains the same; the use of 3GB modules means the RTX 5070 vanilla’s 12GB RAM becomes a much healthier 18GB.

As for the RTX 5070 TI Super, the PG147-SKU55 board is paired with a GB203-350-A1 die, and 8960 CUDA Cores (70SM) (the same as the original 5070 Ti), the bus width 256-bit, but using again, 3GB modules for 24GB RAM and finally, the 350W TDP is higher too. This potentially could be for the higher capacity RAM or, perhaps just as likely to give a bit of extra room for the CPU clock frequencies to boost higher.

The specs for the RTX 5080 Super also leaked awhile back, employing the same number of CUDA cores as seen in the 5080 vanilla and also the 256-bit bus makes a return, albeit this time 3GB modules allows a healthier 24GB VRAM and apparently, 415W TDP (up from 360 of the GeForce RTX 5080 vanilla).

The release date isn’t unfortunately clear right now though. I’ve poked around my own sources, and the last I’d heard late this year or early next year seems possible; but certainly nothing certain. Logically, this would make sense given production times – but of course Nvidia is pretty good at keeping secrets. As for prices, it’s very very early; historically Super cards have released at the prospect of making the cards more appealing from a value perspective.
A fairly reliable source of mine gave me the following for projected prices – but I’ll caution you, that it’s so far out you should take it with an absolute massive truckload of salt. Curiously, there’s at least a couple of SKUs we’ve not heard of here in the last, with the RTX 5030 listed too. I’ll reach out and try and find more info, it’s possibly a typo / mistake, but I’ll list it here for the sake of completeness.
RTX 5080 Super 84 sm 24 gb $1149
RTX 5070 Ti Super 70 sm 24 gb $849
RTX 5070 Super 50 sm 18 gb $599
RTX 5060 Super 32 sm 12 gb $349
RTX 5030 16 sm 6 gb $179
Obviously, the big update to the Super series is on the VRAM, with certain Blackwell skus facing criticism for lack of VRAM (such as the RTX 5070); so it will be interesting to see how the market reacts. At this point, Intel’s higher end Battlemage GPUs are still MIA, and so it will be curious to see how AMD responds if and when Nvidia does finally launch their Super Geforces.
SKU Name | SM Count | Memory Bus | RAM Config |
---|---|---|---|
RTX 5070 | 48 | 192 Bit | 12GB GDDR7 |
RTX 5070 Super | 50 | 192 Bit | 18GB GDDR7 |
RTX 5070 Ti | 70 | 256 Bit | 16GB GDDR7 |
RTX 5070 Ti Super | 70 | 256 Bit | 24GB GDDR7 |
RTX 5080 | 84 | 256 Bit | 16GB GDDR7 |
RTX 5080 Super | 84 | 256 Bit | 24GB GDDR7 |