Nvidia 'unlaunches' RTX 4080 12GB, delaying the card and presumably renaming it for a future release. Here's the story and commentary from digitalfoundry:
Specifications are one thing, but real world performance is another. Nobody has been hands-on with the product, but Nvidia's own benchmarks suggested that the gap between RTX 3080 and RTX 4080 would be nowhere near as large as the increase in performance offered by RTX 4090 over RTX 3090., the 12GB RTX 4080 provided uplifts of varying levels up against the RTX 3080, sometimes beating 3090 Ti, sometimes not.
There was pressure on the RTX 4080 12GB on multiple fronts - pricing, naming, specifications - leading to Nvidia's decision to delay and presumably rebrand the product. With that in mind, delaying and renaming the RTX 4080 12GB is the best route forward for Nvidia as it puts the focus back on the RTX 4080 16GB release to come, while difficult questions on the price/performance of the 12GB model can be addressed further on down the line.
Meanwhile, we do have a firm release date for the 'one true' RTX 4080 - November 16th - but competition in the graphics space may well be heating up in the meantime. AMD's new RDNA 3 line of graphics products is set to be revealed on November 3rd, with the Radeon team also benefiting from a new process technology as well as a transition towards the chiplet technology that has served AMD so well in the CPU space .
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