reported that Bodnara, Nvidia’s South Korean CEO Kim Seung-gyu has further explained why the company has canceled the GeForce RTX 4080 12GB. In short, Kim Seung-gyu said he found the RTX 4080 12GB name “confusing” compared to the RTX 4080 16GB. Seung-gyu explained that Nvidia usually names its GPUs so that the model name can be used to predict performance, but the huge difference in performance between the two of his 4080 models would confuse customers. .
Nvidia’s official US announcement was less clear, with no explanation of the rationale behind the decision, and was boiled down to one sentence that the designation was confusing.
The cancellation of the 4080 seems to have pushed the entry-level price of the 4000 series up to $1,200, and we don’t know when lower-priced alternatives will hit the market. This will ensure a hefty entry point and encourage more customers to buy Ampere cards, helping free the company from oversupply of these models.NVIDIA We recently wrote off $1.32 billion for Ampere’s excess inventory and related reserves. (opens in new tab).
In summary, Nvidia dropped the RTX 4080 12GB SKU entirely seven days ago, admitting that the card’s name is confusing. Also, there was a big difference in specs and performance between the 12GB model and the 16GB model. Nvidia’s own testing confirms this, with the 4080 12GB and 16GB showing a whopping 30% performance difference between his two SKUs.
Obviously, it’s not just the memory capacity difference. The “unreleased” 4080 12GB used a different chip, AD104, with 7680 CUDA cores and 60 Streaming Multiprocessors (SMs), while it has 9728 CUDA cores and 76 SMs. 4080 16GB with AD103. Memory also shows that he is clocked higher with a 16GB card, almost certainly using his 24Gbps GDDR6X chip from Micron.
Nvidia has not announced any replacement plans for the RTX 4080 12GB, but we do know that AIB partner versions of the RTX 4080 12GB have already been made and Nvidia plans to “refund” those partners. Nvidia will eventually create a new name for these “ex-RTX 4080 12GB” cards. The core design is expected to eventually appear as an RTX 4070 or RTX 4070 Ti, but Nvidia has slightly tweaked the specs to avoid accusations of simply rebranding what was always supposed to be a 4070 GPU. may change to
You can read more about Nvidia Ada Architecture. Here you can see the full specs of the still ‘unreleased’ RTX 4080 12GB. Meanwhile, the GeForce RTX 4090 takes the top spot in our GPU benchmark tier, ranking as the fastest of the best graphics cards. Hopefully, when the 4080 12GB alternatives reappear, the price will come down to justify the loss in performance and features.
