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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:

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.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 High-End SKU SpecificationsVideoCardzRTX 3090 TiRTX 3090RTX 3080 TiRTX 3080 12GBRTX 3080 (10GB)PictureGPUGPU ClustersCUDAsRT CoresTensors/TMUsBase ClockBoost ClockMemoryBusMemory ClockBandwidthTDPMSRPRelease Date

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