The head-to-head race between Nvidia and AMD in the GPU market means that new models will also appear in the near future. “Super” is the program again at Nvidia, although the gaps for some of the models should be quite small, if they exist at all. Here, the equipment should ultimately decide.
More memory only with the RTX 3080 Super?
The memory could make a difference here, because not much can be gained from just a few additional shaders with the same clock rate. And because Nvidia stacked the Ampere graphics cards rather deeply in the original setup, super models have some leeway, as the Ti has already done in part. But according to the latest rumors, Nvidia will only use the RTX 3080 Super and turn the GPU on the other models.
Let's make a summary.
3090S 10752 24GB G6X
3080S 8960 12GB G6X
3070S 5888 8G G6X
3060S 5632 12G G6
Although I doubt the specs of some of them and the name of 90S.
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With RTX 3060, super is better than Ti
With speculated 5,632 shaders, the RTX 3060 Super would rank well above the RTX 3060 Ti (ComputerBase test) and come almost within striking distance of the RTX 3070, which produces 5,888 shaders with the same GPU. With 12 GB of GDDR6, the new RTX 3060 Super would not only be superior to the Ti, but also to the 3070.
From RTX 3070, Super is worse than Ti
According to rumors/wishes/ideas, the RTX 3070 Super should only change in terms of memory compared to the RTX 3070 and would thus remain below the RTX 3070 Ti (ComputerBase test), which offers 6,184 shaders instead of 5,888 shaders. With 8 GB, the solution would continue to be the one that has the least amount of memory and in the end it would be the most uninteresting product with these specifications.
The RTX 3080 does great at least with the shader count a small jump from 8,704 to 8,960 units compared to the classic RTX 3080, here the adapted memory controller and thus 12 GByte GDDR6X plays the significantly more important role. But even with this, the product would be significantly below the already known and “available” GeForce RTX 3080 Ti (ComputerBase test).
The extent to which something is happening at the top is shown still in the stars. An RTX 3090 Super with 10,752 shaders – this was already suspected – could offer a little more performance than a normal RTX 3090 (ComputerBase test) and could stand up to the Radeon RX 6900 XTX, which was recently suspected several times. When all of these solutions will hit the market is still unknown, but it is unlikely to be until early 2022. “Super” notebook GPUs from Nvidia have already been predicted for this period.