NVIDIA will not launch the RTX 4080 12 GB under that namenvidia graphics card
During the announcement and confirmation of the NVIDA RTX 4090 and 4080, the green brand announced that it was going to launch two models of RTX 4080, both called RTX 4080. There has been no indicator in their nomenclature that differentiates them, except that they indicate their ability to memory, so they have the NVIDIA RTX 4080 12 GB and NVIDIA RTX 4080 16 GB listed.
As much as they imply in the name that they have a memory difference, it can lead to confusion among users. NVIDIA already had this problem with both models of NVIDA GTX 1060, one 3 GB and one 6 GB.
An NVIDIA GTX 4080 12 GB will not come out, or at least not one with that name
In a short post published last week on the NVIDIA website, the company has announced that it is canceling the launch of its planned GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB card. The RTX 4080 12GB is the lowest of the RTX 4000 series announced to date, until the inevitable RTX 4070, RTX 4060, and RTX 4050 models are announced. The RTX 4070 12GB had drawn significant criticism since its announcement. for forking level 4080 between two cards that didn't even share a common GPU.
Apparently bowing to the pressure of those complaints, NVIDIA has pulled the card from its RTX 40-series lineup, as well as canceling its November release. NVIDIA's brief message reads as follows:
The RTX 4080 12GB is a fantastic graphics card, but it’s not quite named right. Having two GPUs with the 4080 designation is confusing, so let’s hit the “uninstall” button on the 4080 12GB. The RTX 4080 16GB is amazing and on track to delight gamers around the world on November 16th. If the lines around the block and the excitement over the 4090 are any indication, the reception to the 4080 is going to be impressive.
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At the moment, NVIDIA has not given more details about its future plans for the graphics card based on the AD104. Most likely, it will end up coming out in the end, since it is technically finished. Its definition in the BIOS and the brand would have to be changed, to possibly RTX 4070, although we do not confirm that this will exactly happen. Now, what differences were the different RTX 4080 models going to have? Below we list the step from the 16 GB to the 12 GB model.
- 9728 to 7680 CUDA cores
- 112 to 80 ROPs
- 2505 MHz to 2610 MHz Boost Clock
- 22.4Gbps GDDR6X 21Gbps GDDR6X clock memory
- 256-bit to 192-bit memory bus bandwidth
- 320W to 285W TDP
- 64MB to 48MB L2 cache
- AD103 GPU to AD104 GPU
