Were you confused erstwhile NVIDIA introduced two GeForce RTX 4080 models with importantly antithetic capabilities? You're not alone. NVIDIA is "unlaunching" the 12GB RTX 4080 implicit concerns they're confusing. While the institution inactive believes the 12GB mentation is simply a coagulated video card, it said the lower-spec exemplary is "not named right." The institution didn't accidental if oregon however it mightiness relaunch the card, and didn't elaborate further erstwhile reached for comment.

The 16GB RTX 4080 is inactive connected way to motorboat November 16th astatine a terms of $1,199 for NVIDIA's Founders Edition. This efficaciously raises the basal terms for RTX 40-level hardware. This mightiness not beryllium arsenic atrocious arsenic it sounds, caput you. The 12GB variation was expected to commencement astatine $899, though its dependence connected third-party manufacturers was apt to rise real-world pricing higher.

The muddled messaging mostly stems from differences beyond RAM quantities. Where the 12GB exemplary includes 7,680 CUDA (general-purpose processing) cores and a 192-bit representation bus, its higher-end counterpart offers 9,728 cores and a 256-bit bus. You're getting a considerably slower GPU with the 12GB portion contempt the RTX 4080 branding, and the gaps are sometime huge. NVIDIA's own benchmarks showed the 12GB committee trailing its 16GB sibling by up to 30 percent successful well-known games. That could beryllium much than a small disappointing if you bought the 12GB paper expecting akin show extracurricular of RAM-dependent situations.

The cancellation won't needfully make overmuch of a headache for NVIDIA. The RTX 4090 motorboat reportedly created lines astatine stores, and the 4080 could easy beryllium the go-to GPU for gamers who can't rather warrant the $1,599 flagship. Still, it's uncommon to spot a misstep similar this — NVIDIA misjudged the marketplace to the constituent wherever it had to axe a graphics paper earlier it reached customers.