Nvidia announced on Friday that it will be « unlaunching » one of its recently announced GPUs, before it even hits shelves. According to their website, the RTX 4080 12 GB GPU will be shelved because it was « not named right. »
Nvidia will be “unlaunching” the 12 GB model of its RTX 4080 graphics card, the company announced Friday. The news comes just weeks after the company revealed the product as part of a new line of GPUs. In a brief blog post, Nvidia did not provide much context for the decision beyond saying that the card was “not named right.”
Nvidia announced two — well, technically three — new GPUs in late September, the RTX 4090 and RTX 4080. The latter would be available in two versions, Nvidia said: a model with 16 GB of video memory and one with 12 GB.
Based on that, one might think that the RAM would be the only difference between the two RTX 4080 variants. However, that was not the case — the GPUs were to feature considerably different specifications. The 16 GB model has 9,728 CUDA cores, an increase of more than 26% over the 12 GB card’s 7,680 cores.
