In the past, sudden cancellations rarely occurred after launch, but this time the RTX 40 series is very different. end of September The new generation graphics cards GeForce RTX 4090 and RTX 4080 just launched by NVIDIA suddenly announced on the official website earlier that the RTX 4080 12GB version was canceled, which means that only the RTX 4080 16GB is left. The reason given is quite special.
It was canceled just after it was announced. NVIDIA announced that RTX 4080 12GB will no longer be launched!
It is quite common for the same model to have different memory options. Therefore, when NVIDIA launched the RTX 4080 this time, it provided two options of 12GB and 16GB. It is not surprising. It is just that the performance gap may be too big. NVIDIA suddenly decided that there will be no RTX 4080 12GB version.
NVIDIA announced on its official website: “RTX 4080 12GB is an excellent graphics card, but its name is wrong. Using two graphics cards with the 4080 name will be confusing. Therefore, we have decided to cancel the launch of 4080 12GB. RTX 4080 16GB is also amazing and is expected to meet with gamers everywhere on November 16.”
“Using two graphics cards with 4080 names will be confusing” This reason is a bit strange, no one should think so (laughs), after all, it is not the first time that the same graphics card has different memory options.
The real reason may be related to the launch of RTX 4090 a few days ago.Official performance data related to, I didn’t expect that the performance difference between RTX 4080 12GB and 16GB is up to 30%. It is rare to see such a huge gap between the same graphics card and different memories.
In the Microsoft Flight Simulator game, setting the resolution to 3840×2160, setting the highest performance settings and turning on DLSS 3, the RTX 4080 16GB can reach an average of 147.3FPS, and the RTX 4080 12GB is 121.5FPS:
In the game A Plague Tale: Requiem, setting the resolution to 3840×2160 and the highest performance setting, turning off ray tracing but turning on DLSS 3, the RTX 4080 16GB can reach an average of 128.6FPS, and the RTX 4080 12GB is 106.3FPS:
In the F1 22 game, setting the 3840×2160 resolution, the highest performance setting and turning on ray tracing and DLSS 3, the RTX 4080 16GB can reach an average of 143FPS, and the RTX 4080 12GB is 113FPS:
For ease of comparison,VideoCardz has organized this percentage table, RTX 4080 12GB as the benchmark, the gap in the game A Plague Tale: Requiem reaches 30%:
It can be guessed that this decision may be due to too much difference, because there will definitely be RTX 4070 or RTX 4070 Ti in the future. If the performance of these two cards is not much different from that of RTX 4080 12GB, it may affect sales.
Source: KOCPC Chinese