NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 SUPER: Unreleased graphics card pictured nearly 2 years after rumoured cancellation

The GeForce RTX 40 series is well underway now, with NVIDIA launching initial Ada Lovelace graphics cards almost a year ago. Nonetheless, someone has unearthed a GeForce RTX 3090 SUPER Founders Edition unit, which was rumoured in October 2021 to be in line for a January 2022 release. However, NVIDIA replaced the SUPER re-brand late into its development cycle with the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti, which ended up being the company's premier consumer-level Ampere graphics card.

The GeForce RTX 3090 Ti was also briefly NVIDIA's most powerful graphics card, with the GeForce RTX 4080 and GeForce RTX 4090 arriving less than eight months later. At any rate, NVIDIA never confirmed that a SUPER refresh of the RTX 30 series existed, which remains true today. Instead, cards like the GeForce RTX 3090 SUPER were only mentioned by a few leakers. Evidently, the GeForce RTX 3090 SUPER got a way down the track before its cancellation, given the images embedded below.

Incidentally, the rumoured specifications of the GeForce RTX 3090 SUPER carried over to the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti, such as 10,752 CUDA cores and 24 GB of GDDDR6X VRAM. Conversely, NVIDIA ended up basing the latter on the GA102-350-A1 GPU, consigning the GA102-400 to the discarded GeForce RTX 3090 SUPER. NVIDIA maintained its two-tone colour scheme for the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti too, leaving the all-black finish shown above and below without a retail release. Currently, there are no rumours of any SUPER refreshes for the GeForce RTX 40 series either, making it unlikely that NVIDIA will return to this colour scheme soon for its Founders Edition cards.

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