Nvidia’s Super refreshes could arrive soon to fix the biggest problem with RTX 5000 GPUs – their lack of memory

Rumor claims Nvidia’s RTX 5000 Super refreshes are due in Q4 of this year
There will be an RTX 5080 Super, RTX 5070 Ti Super and RTX 5070 Super
They’ll pack a lot more VRAM – with 50% boosts across the board – and the RTX 5070 Super in particular could worry AMD

Nvidia‘s Super refreshes for its RTX 5000 GPUs are still inbound for later this year, we’re told, and now their specs have been spilled – plus there’s a claim that Team Green is going to discontinue a pair of existing higher-end Blackwell models in October to make way for the new graphics cards.

This all comes from the latest video uploaded by a well-known leaker on YouTube, Moore’s Law is Dead (MLID – you can see the video below), who claims there’s an RTX 5070 Super packing 18GB of VRAM incoming in Q4 of this year (so October-December). That’ll arrive alongside an RTX 5070 Ti Super (yes, Nvidia’s pulling that naming stunt again) with 24GB on-board, and an RTX 5080 Super that also has 24GB.

As for the graphics cards, which are being pushed out of the Blackwell line-up next month to make way for the fresh blood, the claim is that these will be the RTX 5080 and RTX 5070 Ti. So, these will be directly replaced by their Super counterparts, while the RTX 5070 will remain alongside the RTX 5070 Super. (This is exactly what happened with Lovelace GPUs, incidentally, so it makes sense in that respect).

Nvidia RTX 5080 & 5070 Ti SUPER Full Leak: Price, Specs, Performance, Release Date – YouTube

Watch On

We also have claimed specs – season all this liberally, of course – so aside from those VRAM levels being beefed up, what else is happening?

The RTX 5080 Super will stick with the same core count as the RTX 5080 it’s set to replace – as the existing GPU already maxed out the cores available on the GB203 chip – but will have faster video RAM (32Gbps, and it may even be quicker 36Gbps memory). Nvidia will supposedly push power consumption to 415W, too, meaning faster clock speeds.

The end result should be something like a performance increase of between 10% and 15% compared to the RTX 5080, according to MLID’s best guesswork (based on chatter from sources, but nothing definitive).

With the RTX 5070 Ti Super we can again expect the same core count as the RTX 5070 Ti, with no VRAM speed increase in this case. However, power will be boosted to 350W to bring those clock speeds up, which should usher in something like a 10% performance increase (perhaps a touch less) versus the discontinued RTX 5070 Ti.

As for the rumored RTX 5070 Super, that will be the only refresh to actually get more graphics cores than its vanilla version (purportedly to the tune of 4% more), with a 275W power consumption (up 10%).

Unlike the other Super refreshes here, MLID says he has actual evidence of the performance boost we can expect, with internal benchmarking pointing to around a 10% increase over the base RTX 5070 (or thereabouts).

We get some estimated pricing too – which is basically guesswork informed by chatter from sources – and the theory is that Nvidia may stick with $999 (US) as the price for the RTX 5080 Super (the same as the RTX 5080 it replaces), or it could get a bit of a bump (potentially to $1,199).

The RTX 5070 Ti Super could well stick at $749, or get a $50 hike over the RTX 5070 Ti’s price tag to make it $799. The same should be true for the RTX 5070 Super, meaning the GPU will stick at $549 or get bumped to $599. Remember, the RTX 5070 (12GB) is supposedly remaining in production, so it’d have to be adjusted to take the 5070 Super pricing into account (as happened with the RTX 4070).

Price tags should mirror this regionally, of course, at least roughly.

A masculine hand holding up an Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 against a green background

(Image credit: Future)

Analysis: a thorny problem for AMD

If this is true, Nvidia is fixing one of the biggest criticisms of its Blackwell lineup: the lack of VRAM. Okay, so it’s only remedying this at the higher tiers, but still, gamers are going to be seriously pleased with RTX 5070 models that sport 24GB (Ti Super) and 18GB (Super) of video RAM.

Those are huge 50% boosts in VRAM pools, and that’s particularly important with the RTX 5070, as its 12GB loadout is seen as a glaring weak point in the Blackwell range – it should always have been 16GB (and now apparently we’re actually getting 18GB, a little bit extra).

This RTX 5070 18GB could prove to be a thorny problem for AMD, because it may not be far off the RX 9070 XT in terms of gaming performance. Based on MLID’s theorizing, frame rate-wise it should be between the RX 9070 and 9070 XT, and if it’s priced at $599 – or even $549 – plus it packs more VRAM (2GB extra) and of course the usual Team Green selling points (DLSS 4), then that’s going to be a problem for Team Red, particularly given the inflated pricing on the RX 9070 XT of late.

In short, people aren’t realistically going to pay more for the RX 9070 XT compared to an RTX 5070 Super with 18GB, and so that should force pricing down for the AMD GPU (and it’d be about time). At any rate, it looks like this upper-mid-range GPU territory is about to get a lot more interesting and competitive, which is good news for consumers.

As noted, these Blackwell RTX Super refreshes should be out in Q4, with production on existing models being halted next month.

One potential wrinkle timing-wise is that MLID notes that the RTX 5080 Super could be delayed until Q1 2026 if Nvidia wants to use the fastest VRAM possible (36Gbps). MLID reasons that Team Green might feel the need to do this if AMD does actually have a previously rumored RX 9080 XT waiting in the wings, but that remains a much shakier rumor for now.

There’s been plenty of speculation about an RTX 5000 Super refresh, of course, pinning the date down to late 2025 – so MLID is very much backing up this idea. If production of existing models is stopped in October, a November launch for the Super refreshes seems the most likely scenario.