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NVIDIA cancels GeForce RTX 4080 12GB
Facing never-ending criticism, NVIDIA has just announced it will not launch GeForce RTX 4080 12GB model, the card that we knew and will always know as RTX 4070. In a last-minute change in September, the company had decided to launch two RTX 4080 models with vastly different specifications. Turns out this has backfired hard.
NVIDIA has just announced it is 'unlaunching' its RTX 4080 12GB GPU. Only the 16GB model will be released. NVIDIA has confirmed that, 4080 16GB launches on November 16th.
Also at AnandTech, Guru3D, and Wccftech.
Previously: Nvidia Announces the RTX 4090, 4080 (16 GB and 12 GB), and More
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Nvidia "Unlaunches" Maligned "RTX 4080 12 GB" GPU Before Release
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Finagle's First Law:
If an experiment works, something has gone wrong.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by Booga1 on Saturday October 15 2022, @10:41AM (1 child)
It's not a new thing, but taking a look at the specs shows the reason for the "unlaunch." Your example is excellent, btw. The difference between the 370 2GB and 4GB is only 20mhz and the RAM. It's the same chip with less RAM and a tweak to the frequency.
The two 4080's aren't even the same chip(AD103 vs. AD104). Besides the RAM, some of the additional differences between the 4080 16GB and 12GB are:
76 vs. 60 streaming multiprocessors (21% fewer)
9728 vs. 7680 CUDA cores (21% fewer)
256 bit vs. 192 bit memory bus width (25% smaller)
736GB/s vs. 504GB/s memory bandwidth (32% slower)
64MB vs 48MB L2 cache (25% smaller)
2505Mhz vs. 2610MHz boost clock (4% higher)
In short, this is WAY too big a difference compared to older RAM differentiated products. They're not even the same product, and they're catching a lot of flak for it for good reason.
(Score: 2) by RamiK on Saturday October 15 2022, @04:58PM
Ha. That's weird. Maybe the real world benchmarks or the price points were too close for them to justify different products but they already had them so... ? Well, we'll know soon enough I suppose.
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