While Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 has its merits, there’s no denying that the graphics card is lacking in key areas, memory capacity chief among them. In a surprise turn of events, Team Green recognises these shortcomings and plans to launch a refreshed design, if rumours hold true. In the not-too-distant future, we could very well welcome RTX 5070 Super into the space, complete with a suite of big and small upgrades.
Below, you’ll find all the latest whispers on RTX 5070 Super, sourced from credible rumours and leaks, alongside sprinklings of my analysis. I’ll update this guide as new information comes to light, official or otherwise, so be sure to check back for further developments. Without further ado, let’s mull over what we know about Nvidia’s second attempt to win over the midrange market.
Release date
Nvidia hasn’t confirmed when it plans to release RTX 5070 Super, but rumours suggest the graphics card will launch around the end of 2025 alongside RTX 5070 Ti Super and RTX 5080 Super.
Launching RTX 5070 Super less than a year after RTX 5070 seems hasty at first glance but wouldn’t be unusual behaviour for Nvidia. After all, the brand pushed RTX 4070 Super out the door just nine months after RTX 4070.
Failing a 2025 release date, I’d expect Nvidia to share more details about RTX 5070 Super come CES 2026. This was the trade show of choice for the company for RTX 40 Series Super refreshes too.
Specifications
Separating itself from the vanilla variant, RTX 5070 Super should arrive with a larger VRAM capacity, more CUDA cores, in addition to a bigger power budget.
Reliable leaker kopite7kimi shared alleged RTX 5070 Super specs earlier this year. They claim Nvidia will outfit the graphics card with a beefier GB205 GPU variant (400-A1). Thankfully, there’s still some overhead remaining with room to push all 6,400 CUDA cores, marking a 4% (+256) increase over GB205-300-A1’s count of 6,144.
GeForce RTX 5070 Super
PG147-SKU65
GB205-400-A1
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192-bit GDDR7 18G 28Gbps
275W— kopite7kimi (@kopite7kimi) June 29, 2025
The most compelling upgrade RTX 5070 Super can offer comes in the form of its buffer size. It seems Nvidia has heard criticisms of RTX 5070’s 12GB buffer loud and clear, and will outfit the new graphics card with 18GB of VRAM. This is possible through 3GB GDDR7 modules, rather than a change in bus-width. There are seemingly no changes to memory clock either, running at 28Gb/s.
The last morsel of leaked information kopite7kimi provides concerns power draw. Higher capacity memory modules will naturally draw additional voltage, requiring an additional 25W. This would bring the graphics card’s total power consumption up to 275W, more than satisfying the needs of its VRAM chips and potentially pushing performance up too.
| RTX 5070 Super | RTX 5070 | |
|---|---|---|
| CUDA cores | 6,400 | 6,144 |
| Mem. capacity | 18GB | 12GB |
| Mem. clock | 28Gb/s | 28Gb/s |
| Board power | 275W | 250W |
Placing prospective RTX 5070 Super specs alongside RTX 5070 suggests this refresh likely won’t make for a massive shift. Instead, we’re likely looking at an uplift similar to that of RTX 4070 Ti Super from RTX 4070 Ti, where the attraction here is the larger buffer size more than anything else. With this in mind, I half expect Nvidia to retire its current model and replace it with this newer design.
I’m curious to see how far Nvidia plans to push clock speeds, given the increased power budget. Team Green would undoubtedly love to plug the current gap between RTX 5070 and RX 9070. Given time, that particular specification should become known to us through further leaks.
Price
There’s understandably little information surrounding RTX 5070 Super pricing, considering how far the graphics card’s estimated launch window is. However, it seems likely that Nvidia will stick close to the $549 MSRP of RTX 5070.
During its last Super refresh, Nvidia launched RTX 4070 Ti Super and RTX 4070 Super at the same price as their non-Super counterparts. Meanwhile, RTX 4080 Super actually brought the price of RTX 4080 down.
There’s no guarantee that the company will adopt the same pricing strategy. However, this approach seems likely given past precedent and how close alleged RTX 5070 Super specs are to the vanilla variant.
Performance
There are currently no credible leaks illustrating RTX 5070 Super performance. Based on current rumours, the graphics card should be marginally faster than RTX 5070 in most cases, but its larger VRAM capacity could provide large frame rate boosts in some scenarios.
The increase in CUDA core count doesn’t provide a 1:1 performance uplift. As such, RTX 5070 Super’s 4% uplift in this respect likely won’t translate into frame rates rising by the same degree. That’s not forgetting the effect that its higher TDP and clock speeds may have.
Where RTX 5070 Super should wipe the floor with RTX 5070 is in meeting the demands of higher resolutions and some memory-intensive settings. A bigger buffer means less reliance on system memory, leading to better performance.
Like other Blackwell GPUs, RTX 5070 Super will undoubtedly support DLSS 4, as well as other Nvidia features like RTX HDR and 9th Gen NVENC.
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