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Last week it was rumored that NVIDIA was working on ‘Super’ versions of three of its existing 40-series GPU including the RTX 4080, and now it looks like there may be an idea of how much VRAM will be available in that card.
If rumored details are accurate, then it looks like NVIDIA will be bumping the VRAM up to 20GB from 16GB on the currently available standard RTX 4080 card. A significant increase but one that also might not be entirely necessary. Given that even the most demanding games these days wouldn’t use nearly all 20GB of that memory.
The update in VRAM also potentially signifies that NVIDIA is going to swap to a different memory bus for the Super variant of the RTX 4080. Changes that could be part of this VRAM upgrade include the swap to an AD102 GPU from an AD103 GPU. As well as the increase from the 256-bit memory bus to a 320-bit memory bus. Details on these changes come from Benchlife (via VideoCardz).
NVIDIA may update the VRAM for more than just the RTX 4080 Super
The RTX 4080 Super may not be the only card getting an increase in memory. In fact the same leak details the likelihood of the RTX 4070 Super getting a bump in VRAM as well. All while going through similar swaps of components.
We could see NVIDIA move to using the AD103 GPU instead of the AD104 that’s being used on the regular RTX 4070 card. While also increasing the VRAM capacity from 12GB to 16GB. And going from 192-bit memory bus to the 256-bit memory bus. These are of course rumors and nothing has been confirmed by NVIDIA at this point yet. It’s also noted that the RTX 4070 Super might be slightly less powerful than the RTX 4070 Ti. Although it’s still unclear if that will actually be the case.