Reports suggest that Nvidia’s RTX 30-series graphics cards will receive a VRAM boost, among other upgrades.
Despite ongoing chip shortages, recent leaks on Twitter indicate that Nvidia is planning to enhance some of its graphics cards.
The tweet suggests that a new 12GB model of the Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 is set to be announced and launched officially on 7 December. This would double the current offering and is expected to strengthen Nvidia’s Turing architecture against the competition.
Other rumored upgrades include an increase from 8GB to 16GB for the RTX 3070 Ti and a VRAM boost from 10GB to 12GB for the RTX 3080, with an expected announcement date of 17 December and availability on 11 January next year. There have been no mentions regarding the availability of the existing RTX 3080 10GB models post-upgrade.
Despite the speculation, it’s not yet clear if there will be other modifications. The RTX 3070 Ti is likely to retain the familiar GA104-401 GPU, while the new RTX 3080 models may utilize the GA102-220 GPU. There is also no indication if the new cards will support the rumored PCle Gen5 compatible cable, expected to debut with the new RTX 3090 Ti.
Existing card owners need not worry, as the upgrades are not expected to make a substantial difference in performance at present; any noticeable impact is likely to be observed in a couple of years. Although no comment has been received from Nvidia, we will update this article if the company provides any information regarding these graphics card rumors.
