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

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

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Nvidia only recently launched the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti, but now it's rumored to be bringing two more than high-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 will available early next year. Yet, this written report was quote-tweeted by noted leaker kopite7kimi, who claimed the GeForce RTX 3080 Super and the GeForce RTX 3070 Super won't just be coming to laptops.

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Of form, none of this is even shut to being officially confirmed, though kopite7kimi is 1 of the more than reliable loftier-profile leakers out there; back in February they correctly tipped off that the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti was incoming and had dropped from 20GB or 12GB of video memory. As such, this rumor may exist worth paying attending to.

Nvidia introduced "Super" branding on the previous generation's GeForce RTX xx-serial graphics cards, with models like the GeForce RTX 2080 Super and GeForce RTX 2070 Super that offered modest performance improvements over their non-Super equivalents without drastically changing the underlying tech. The GeForce RTX xxx-series has been wrought with stock shortage issues since launch, just instead of focusing on its adjacent-gen cards Nvidia could conceivably repeat the introduction of more powerful Super models.

VideoCardz'south study suggested that both the GeForce RTX 3080 Super and the GeForce RTX 3070 Super, or at least the supposed mobile versions, could potentially utilize a new Nvidia GA103 graphics processor. Both volition 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 at that place really are desktop versions coming likewise, they might pose quite the puzzler for anyone who's still waiting to find GeForce RTX 3080 stock. Especially if, every bit many PC owners are, they're already on a waiting list for one of the current cards: should you stay the course and concord out for the original purchase, or cancel the club and depository financial institution on being able to grab one of the newer, more powerful Super GPUs?

It would be a tough dilemma if stock shortages are nevertheless plaguing the PC hardware market in a few months' time. It's hard to say if it will, as there are signs pointing in opposite ways: in China, some sometime cryptocurrency miners are selling their graphics cards at MSRP or below, while in Vietnam one retailer has been selling extremely rare, limited edition GPUs every bit gear up-made mining setups.

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