NVIDIA may be planning to launch its RTX 50 Super Series GPUs a lot sooner than expected. Supposedly, the GPUs could make their debut this October, which makes it barely a year since the series’ launch, along with the rumoured bump in VRAM capacity.
The latest rumours come from TechTuber and prominent leakster, Moore’s Law is Dead (MLID). Just as earlier rumours about the specs and SKUs hinted, MLID is more or less certain that there will be three Super variants of the lineup: The RTX 5070 Super, the RTX 5070 Ti Super, and the RTX 5080 Super. All three should receive a 50% increase in graphics memory, meaning that the 5070 Super will receive 18GB GDDR7, while the 5070 Ti Super annd 5080 Super should receive 24GB GDDR7.
Performance-wise, it is expected that there will be an average uplift of 15% for all three RTX 50 Super Series GPUs, albeit with an increase in TDP consumption. Interestingly, MLID says that there is a chance NVIDIA may delay the launch of the RTX 5080 Super till the first quarter of 2026, so the GPU maker could get its hands on the 36Gbps GDDR7 VRAM modules that should be out by then.
Pricing is still up in the air, for that matter. Speculations suggest that the RTX 50 Super Series cards will start from US$549 (~RM2,315) for the RTX 5070 Super, US$749 (~RM3,158) for the 5070 Ti Super, and US$999 (~RM4,213) for the 5080 Super. If those price points sound familiar, that’s because those are the same price starting prices of their non-Super counterparts when they launched.
On that note, there is a somewhat and quite possibly logical explanation to the situation: with the supposed arrival of the new RTX 50 Super series, NVIDIA may just discontinue the production of the non-Super counterparts. It’s a move that the company has made before, the first with the RTX 20 Series and then a generation later with the RTX 40 Series.
Again, nothing has been officially set in stone but considering the hoo-hah surrounding the graphics memory amount and similarities between the RTX 5080 and 5070 Ti, new buyers of the Super variants will undoubtedly be getting a much better deal: more graphics memory, more performance, higher power consumption, but around the same price.
