Nvidia Leaks Suggest RTX 3090 Super, RTX 3070Ti 16GB and RTX 2060 12 GB May be Launched in 2022
In the past few days, many leaks have been surfaced that Nvidia is working on a GPU that's faster than a 3090, yes you guessed it right; a RTX 3090 Super is in works and if the reports are accurate then we might see this monstrous powerhouse within the first quarter of 2022 and lets just hope the supply remains consistent so that gamers can get their hands on this GPU.
The leaks of RTX 3090 Super doesn't mark the end of the report; there's more good news yet as Nvidia is planning to launch new variants of RTX 3070 Ti and RTX 2060 with 16 GB VRAM and 12 GB VRAM respectively, this launch seems to be an attempt to counter the ongoing shortages and cater to the needs of GPU starved rigs of gamers. From these leaks it looks like Nvidia is ramping up its minimum VRAM capacity for a GPU to 8 GB for its desktop tiers.
The rumors also suggest that Nvidia is also working on RTX 3080 Super, 3070 Super and 3060 Super as well, although the leak doesn't specify the amount of VRAM these cards will contain but you can rest assured it won't be less than 8 GB at least, which in my opinion is enormous even if you game on 2k (1440p).
According to the twitter user @hongxing2020, Nvidia is ready to launch the RTX 3090 SUPER, RTX 3070 Ti 16 GB and the RTX 2060 12 GB in January 2022 or in the end of the first quarter of the year at most, although we still aren't sure about the release date of other SKUs such as 3080 Super, 3070 Super and 3060 Super (or their existence considering rumors are, after all, rumors) and the twitter user skips over the reports of these GPUs which might indicate that they are no longer part of the Nvidia lineup.
Moving on to the rumored specifications of 3090 Super revealed in a leak by twitter user @kopite7kimi; the die would be the same G102 but with increased core counts and faster memory speed, with 10,752 CUDA Cores reported, the RTX 3090 Super would only net a small 2.4% increase in core count over the RTX 3090. That is, however, at the limit of the GA102 GPU, the full 84 SM configuration of which is only currently found in the Nvidia A40 and RTX A6000 enterprise and datacenter graphics cards.
Something that we took notice from the leak that, though Kopite7kimi reports that the RTX 3090 Super will not feature Nvidia's multi-GPU interface, NV Link. The multi-GPU connector was previously found only on the RTX 3090 of all the RTX 30-series graphics cards, with the reasoning being that, as a compute-specific interconnect as opposed to the old gaming-focused SLI bridge, the RTX 3090 was being aimed more at the creative professionals than the gamers only.
Though, if Nvidia's now ditching NV Link from the GeForce range entirely, maybe the purported RTX 3090 Super is purely an ultra-enthusiast offering. Or maybe even creative professionals who'd dropped $1,500 on a new GPU couldn't bring themself to buy two.
Talking about the improvements in the memory speed, existing GDDR6X graphics cards (high-end RTX 30-series cards) run at 19.5 Gbps only, while the RTX 3090 Super is rumored to utilize the full 21 Gbps that the memory chip maker, Micron, rates its GDDR6X memory modules up to. That would in turn bump the memory bandwidth from 936 GB/s with the RTX 3090 to 1,008 GB/s, that's just over one terabyte per second, with the RTX 3090 Super.
We would suggest to take these leaks with a pinch of salt (as usual) as these may never turn out to be true or they might perhaps, only time will tell, until then Game on.
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