While the GeForce RTX 4090 (test) was released on October 12th and the GeForce RTX 4080 with 16 gigabytes now has a fixed release date, the graphics card will be released on November 16th , Nvidia canceled the GeForce RTX 4080 with 12 gigabytes before the release because of its confusing name for gamers.
The GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB will not appear
The Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080 with 12 GB GDDR6X based on the AD104 graphics processor with 7,680 shaders will not appear, the manufacturer announced in a short statement under the titled “Unlaunching The 12GB 4080” on its official GeForce graphics card product page.
Nvidia is responding to the ongoing criticism that the GeForce RTX 4080 12 gigabytes is more of a GeForce RTX 4070 or even a GeForce RTX 4060 Ti.
The [GeForce] RTX 4080 12GB is a fantastic graphics card, but it doesn't quite go by the name. Having two GPUs labeled [GeForce] RTX 4080 is confusing.
Nvidia
While the GeForce RTX 4080 16GB can boast an AD103 GPU with a total of 9,728 CUDA cores, the now canceled GeForce RTX 4080 12GB should be based on the AD104 graphics chip with only 7,680 shader units. The GeForce RTX 4090 even offers more than twice as many FP32 ALUs. “That's why we hit the unlaunch button on the GeForce RTX 4080 12GB,” says Nvidia.
The RTX 4080 (16 GB) has a date
The manufacturer focuses on its However, the statement goes straight back to the larger of the originally two planned GeForce RTX 4080 and does not comment further on the background to the deletion of the small SKU.
The Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080 16GB is “an amazing graphics card and is on course to wow gamers everywhere on November 16th”. The date was not known yet.
In addition, Nvidia refers to the “queues [upcoming customers, Red's note] around the block” for the release of the GeForce RTX 4090, a statement that is obviously intended to distract from the extremely unusual step of canceling a graphics card so shortly before release.
The first manufacturer benchmarks for the GeForce RTX 4080 16 GB and GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB have already documented a huge difference in performance compared to the GeForce RTX 4090.
As there would never have been you GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB
On the official product page of the GeForce RTX 4000 series (“Ada Lovelace”), Nvidia already has all the information about the previously planned GeForce RTX 4080 with 12 GB completely removed. Nothing points to the smaller of the two GeForce RTX 4080, as if the model with 12 gigabytes had never existed.
Whether and in what form or under what name The manufacturer who will release the graphics card with its AD104 graphics processor and 12 GB DDR6X is currently unknown.
Nvidia had already emphasized when the GeForce RTX 4090 and the two GeForce RTX 4080 were released at the time that the GeForce RTX 3080, 3070 and 3060 ( Ti) of the Ampere generation should be offered.