'Maybe' Nvidia will release a GeForce GPU that's faster than the RTX 3090 this year, leaks suggest

'Maybe' Nvidia wish release a GeForce GPU that's faster than the RTX 3090 this year, leaks suggest

Nvidia RTX 3090 FE graphics card in use with white lights illuminated

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Nvidia could be eyeing up an even more behemoth art add-in than its top GeForce card to date, the GeForce RTX 3090. According to recent tweets from leakers, the green team up may be considering an RTX 3090 Super with a maximum number of cores and moving at the maximum memory speeding.

The first rumblings of much a card come from Kopite7kimi and Greymon55, within a day of each other. They some report similar findings, too, although Kopite7kimi offers a elflike more detail happening what "maybe" en route.

Perchance, RTX 3090 Super"GA102-350-A110752FP32, no NVLINKOriginal 21Gbps MEMTGP>=450W"Launch in 2021. 🤫🤫🤫August 26, 2021

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With 10,752 CUDA Cores reported, the RTX 3090 Tiptop would only net a small 2.4% increase in core number over the RTX 3090. That is, however, at the limit of the GA102 GPU, the full 84 MS configuration of which is only currently found in the Nvidia A40 and RTX A6000 enterprise and datacentre graphics card game.

In possibility, Nvidia will already have this GPU in fairly high production over at Samsung, its metalworks cooperator for the Ampere generation, and that means it May have some information technology's willing to share with the GeForce rail line for a higher mark-up. And at more or less a twelvemonth after launch you'd hope GA102 chip yields would be brawny enough that full GPUs are more rough-cut nowadays, too.

Interestingly, though, Kopite7kimi reports that the RTX 3090 Topnotch will not feature Nvidia's multi-GPU user interface, NVLink. The multi-GPU connector was previously found only connected the RTX 3090 of all the RTX 30-series graphics card game, with the reasoning existence that, as a compute-peculiar interconnect as opposed to the nonmodern gaming-focused SLI span, the RTX 3090 was being aimed more at the creative professionals than the play brigade.

Though, if Nvidia's now ditching NVLink from the GeForce range entirely, maybe the puported RTX 3090 Super is purely an radical-enthusiast offering. Operating room maybe even creative professionals World Health Organization'd born $1,500 connected a new GPU couldn't bring themself to buy two.

At this point, you power live wondering whether the RTX 3090 Super is delivery to the table away way of improvements. That's reportedly all happening over in the VRAM section.

An image of the RTX 3080 Super graphics card on a black background — Nvidia released 'Ace' variants of its RTX 20-serial nontextual matter card game as a mid-computer architecture review in July of 2019, 10 months along from the RTX 2080. (Simulacrum credit: Nvidia)

Specifically, improvements in memory speed. Existing GDDR6X nontextual matter cards (high-end RTX 30-serial cards) run at 19.5 Gbps, while the RTX 3090 Super is rumoured to utilise the full 21 Gbps that the memory chip maker, Micron, rates its GDDR6X memory modules adequate.

That would successively bump the memory bandwidth from 936 Gilbert/s with the RTX 3090 to 1,008 GB/s, or just over a one terabyte per second, with the RTX 3090 Tiptop.

In gambling damage, 1TB/s memory bandwidth is a helluva lot.

Simply information technology looks comparable cranking up the memory to its maximum rated speed and the slight core count step-up will drastically gain the Total Graphics Power (TGP) of the rumoured scorecard to 450W Oregon more. That's potentially 100W greater than the RTX 3090.

The RTX 3090 Super is a wild proposition, then. Non at all because the RTX 3090 already has a fairly crunchy hold the line the performance crown in gaming as is.

That's ne'er stopped-up a graphics card company before, though. And in that respect could be multitude of reasons for such a card's existence, including wringing much cash out of the GA102 silicon, keeping AMD at bay, or even a wider Super freshen up that covers more of the RTX 30-serial stack up.

Though, for at present, the RTX 3090 Super could be nothing to a higher degree a dubiousness mark in a spreadsheet at Nvidia HQ. IT could even glucinium scratched forbidden of the books by now, and we're entirely now catching word of IT posthumously. Perhaps there's both weight behind two leakers reporting the card inside a day of each other, but information technology's not unlike a producer to conform plans on a dime.

Just take the rumoured RTX 3080 Ti, which was a undersize different to the shipping RTX 3080 Te that came later in the twelvemonth. That card was seemingly and then close to production that GPUs were designated and even etched ready for it.

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