Tuesday, November 8th 2022
Cancelled NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 12GB Rebadged as RTX 4070 Ti, Bound for January?
NVIDIA had originally planned to launch the GeForce RTX 4080 16 GB, and the now-cancelled RTX 4080 12 GB in mid-November, but facing strong backlash from the press and social-media over the confusion the "RTX 4080 12 GB" branding would cause due to a vastly different hardware specification to that of the RTX 4080 16 GB (limited not only to the memory size); the company cancelled the launch of the RTX 4080 12 GB. We're hearing that with NVIDIA's board partners already having manufactured a large inventory of RTX 4080 12 GB cards, something had to be done. The partners could be undertaking a rebranding exercise, and the new brand is "GeForce RTX 4070 Ti."
According to kopite7kimi, a reliable source with NVIDIA leaks, the RTX 4080 12 GB will be rebranded as the RTX 4070 Ti. VideoCardz reports that the card is probably bound for a January 2023 launch. Based on the 4 nm "AD104" silicon, the RTX 4080 12 GB was supposed to max out the silicon, featuring 7,680 CUDA cores, 60 RT cores, 240 Tensor cores, 240 TMUs, 80 ROPs, and a 192-bit wide memory interface, running 12 GB of 23 Gbps GDDR6X memory (504 GB/s bandwidth). The RTX 4080 12 GB was originally slated to launch at a USD $900 price-point. It remains to be seen if NVIDIA is bold enough to sell a xx70-class product at $900. AMD is launching the Radeon RX 7900 XT at this price.
Sources:
kopite7kimi (Twitter), VideoCardz
According to kopite7kimi, a reliable source with NVIDIA leaks, the RTX 4080 12 GB will be rebranded as the RTX 4070 Ti. VideoCardz reports that the card is probably bound for a January 2023 launch. Based on the 4 nm "AD104" silicon, the RTX 4080 12 GB was supposed to max out the silicon, featuring 7,680 CUDA cores, 60 RT cores, 240 Tensor cores, 240 TMUs, 80 ROPs, and a 192-bit wide memory interface, running 12 GB of 23 Gbps GDDR6X memory (504 GB/s bandwidth). The RTX 4080 12 GB was originally slated to launch at a USD $900 price-point. It remains to be seen if NVIDIA is bold enough to sell a xx70-class product at $900. AMD is launching the Radeon RX 7900 XT at this price.
81 Comments on Cancelled NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 12GB Rebadged as RTX 4070 Ti, Bound for January?
Unfortunately the human stupidity is too vast out there...
I am glad that they are at least, finally, making some sense out of this product by rebranding it as the 4070ti. I have said this since they announced the 4080 duo.
At these prices I'm likely to just keep my 1080 Ti another generation. I don't enjoy being given the middle finger now as much as I did during the pandemic.That's if you ignore multiple other factors. The GTX 980 was 398mm2 while the 4080 12GB is a mere 295mm2, over 100mm2 smaller. In addition, the 980 was $550 USD (or $689 today) where as the 4080 12GB was listed for $1,200.
The 980 isn't really a great example to compare to either. That's when people first started complaining about Nvidia staggering it's product releases to get people on the hook for more money. The fact that the 4080 12GB looks absolutely horrible in comparison just says how bad things have gotten.
Why should thee be price / performance increase, right?
would it be a 3080ti/90 similar equivalent? or maybe the 3080 10/12gb in between.
wonder where this gpu will slot into
I bet the price will stay as it is. NV is pretty confident in ADA for some reason.
They haven't adjusted to the end of Covid and mining at all. Or the much tougher economic environment.
And if there are less buyers due to high inflation and recession, the remaining buyers will have to cover for the rest of us. Makes sense, no?
- They don't have DLSS 3.0 and when they get FSR 3.0, it will be obviously inferior
- DLSS 2.x is superior to FSR 2.x
- GSync is superior to FreeSync
- They don't have CUDA
- They don't have Optix
- They don't have Tensor cores
- Their drivers are bad
- AMD's logo is not as shiny as Nvidia's logo
- More reasons or excuses....
In fact when I started to write this post, I was only thinking of DLSS 3.0 as the perfect marketing material for Nvidia to sell this card to consumers. But someone can build a fairly long list of reasons or excuses, depending of how someone sees it, to go with an RTX 4070 Ti at $900, instead of the RX 7900 XT at the same price, or the XTX at $1000.