If you were readying to bargain a caller 40-series Nvidia GPU this year, you mightiness request to prevention up adjacent much wealth than planned. That’s due to the fact that the GPU shaper has confirmed its plans to “unlaunch” the antecedently planned, and cheaper, 12GB RTX 4080 model. Instead, now, lone the much costly and faster 16GB RTX 4080 volition motorboat adjacent month.

A fewer weeks ago, pursuing galore rumors and overmuch speculation, Nvidia yet announced its adjacent bid of high-end PC graphics cards. The program past was to motorboat 2 antithetic flavors of RTX 4080 GPUs successful November: the 16GB RTX 4080 ($1199) and a 12GB RTX 4080 ($899). It besides announced a $1600 4090 during that aforesaid event. These prices went implicit astir arsenic good arsenic you mightiness expect, with galore claiming they were excessively expensive. And present the “cheapest” of these new, pricey cards isn’t adjacent launching adjacent month.

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As announced contiguous by Nvidia, the institution is “unlaunching” the 12GB RTX 4080. It claims this is because, portion the paper is “fantastic,” it’s excessively “confusing” to person 2 antithetic GPUs that are some designated “RTX 4080.” This echoes criticism that arose from galore consumers aft the caller 40-series announcements; galore suggested that the intelligibly little specs of the 12GB RTX 4080 were much akin to a theoretical “4070” oregon “4079” card.

Kotaku has contacted Nvidia astir the cancelation and the aboriginal of the 12GB RTX 4080 model.

“So, we’re pressing the ‘unlaunch’ fastener connected the 4080 12GB,” said Nvidia successful a abbreviated connection posted connected the company’s authoritative website. “The RTX 4080 16GB is astonishing and connected way to delight gamers everyplace connected November 16th.”

Of course, it’s hard not to spot this determination arsenic a mode for Nvidia to propulsion much of its customers—many of whom person been holding disconnected connected buying a caller GPU for a fewer years present while cards remained hard to buy—into spending much wealth connected a pricier card. And portion archetypal previews of the cheaper 12GB 4080 had shown it to beryllium considerably slower than the much costly 16GB version, it was inactive bully to person astatine slightest 1 enactment that outgo nether $1,000. But that’s present gone. What volition hap remains to beryllium seen, but possibly Nvidia volition really extremity up rebranding the 12GB RTX 4080s into 4070s.