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NVIDIA is making RTX 3080 12GB again
A hardware leaker with bully contacts astatine committee partners claims that NVIDIA is present producing RTX 3080 12GB SKU again aft stopping it 2 months ago.
The RTX 3080 12GB was 1 of the latest models released this twelvemonth successful January. This paper was a cosmetic upgrade implicit the archetypal exemplary with 10GB, but was a needed refresh of the GA102 GPU astatine the time. The RTX 3090 bid were simply excessively expensive.
Fast guardant to August this year, NVIDIA is facing a immense inventory occupation with RTX 30 series, determination are simply excessively galore cards to merchantability and excessively fewer customers funny successful buying a high-end paper conscionable 2 months distant from next-gen launch.
But arsenic NVIDIA produces much RTX 3090 cards with astir afloat GA102 GPU, the institution is besides getting partially disabled GPUs, which whitethorn extremity up successful SKUs specified arsenic RTX 3080 Ti oregon RTX 3080 10/12GB models. According to MEGAsizeGPU, NVIDIA has conscionable started making RTX 3080 12GB cards again. The crushed supposedly being the immense banal of GA102 GPUs:
Because determination is excessively overmuch banal of GA102, Nvidia has resumed the proviso of 3080 12G.
The 3080 12G conscionable stopped accumulation for little than 2 months, and precocious resumed accumulation quickly.
— MEGAsizeGPU (@Zed__Wang) August 14, 2022
NVIDIA tin marque RTX 3080 12GB cards careless if the GA102 inventory has capable suitable chips oregon not. We person seen this galore times, erstwhile the institution repurposed its higher-end GPUs for different models, simply to proceed the accumulation of much affordable SKUs. This whitethorn pb to little profits, but NVIDIA volition get escaped of the GA102 banal 1 mode oregon the other.
The RTX 3080 12GB features 8960 CUDA cores (+256 implicit the original), an accrued representation size to 12GB and wider representation autobus of 320-bit. Interestingly, NVIDIA ne'er announced the MSRP for this card.
GA102-350 | GA102-300 | GA102-225 | GA102-220 | GA102-200 |
84 | 82 | 80 | 70 | 68 |
10752 | 10496 | 10240 | 8960 | 8704 |
84 | 82 | 80 | 70 | 68 |
336 | 328 | 320 | 280 | 272 |
1560 MHz | 1395 MHz | 1365 MHz | 1260 MHz | 1440 MHz |
1860 MHz | 1695 MHz | 1665 MHz | 1710 MHz | 1710 MHz |
24 GB G6X | 24 GB G6X | 12 GB G6X | 12 GB G6X | 10 GB G6X |
384-bit | 384-bit | 384-bit | 384-bit | 320-bit |
21 Gbps | 19.5 Gbps | 19 Gbps | 19 Gbps | 19 Gbps |
1008 GB/s | 936 GB/s | 912 GB/s | 912 GB/s | 760 GB/s |
450W | 350W | 350W | 350W | 320W |
$1,999 | $1,499 | $1,199 | Not announced | $699 |
January 2022 | September 24th, 2020 | June 3rd, 2021 | January 2022 | September 17th, 2020 |
Source: MEGAsizeGPU