In the past, sudden cancellations after publication have rarely occurred, but this time the RTX 40 series is very different. end of September The new generation of graphics cards GeForce RTX 4090 and RTX 4080 that NVIDIA just launched, suddenly announced on the official website earlier that the RTX 4080 12GB version was cancelled, that is, only the RTX 4080 16GB was left, and the reason given was quite special.
It was cancelled as soon as it was published, and NVIDIA announced that the RTX 4080 12GB would not be launched!
It is quite common for the same model to have different memory options, so when NVIDIA launched the RTX 4080 this time, it is not surprising that 12GB and 16GB options are available, but it may be that the performance gap is too much, NVIDIA suddenly It was decided that there will be no RTX 4080 12GB version.
NVIDIA announced on the official website: “The RTX 4080 12GB is an excellent graphics card, but its name is wrong, and using two graphics cards with the 4080 name can be confusing, so we decided to cancel the introduction of the 4080 12GB and the RTX 4080 16GB. It’s also amazing, and I hope to meet gamers everywhere on November 16.”
“It’s confusing to use two graphics cards with the 4080 name” This reasoning is a little strange, no one should think so (laughs), after all, it is not the first time that the same graphics card has different memory choices.
The real reason may be the same as when the RTX 4090 was launched a few days ago.Officially provided performance data aboutI did not expect that the performance difference between RTX 4080 12GB and 16GB is up to 30%. It is rare to see the same graphics card with different memory, such a huge gap.
In the Microsoft Flight Simulator game, set the resolution to 3840×2160, the performance setting is the highest and DLSS 3 is turned on, the RTX 4080 16GB can reach an average of 147.3FPS, and the RTX 4080 12GB is 121.5FPS:
In A Plague Tale: Requiem game, set 3840×2160 resolution, the highest performance setting, turn off ray tracing but turn on DLSS 3, RTX 4080 16GB can reach an average of 128.6FPS, RTX 4080 12GB is 106.3FPS:
In the F1 22 game, set the resolution of 3840×2160, the highest performance setting and turn on ray tracing and DLSS 3, the RTX 4080 16GB can reach an average of 143FPS, and the RTX 4080 12GB is 113FPS:
To facilitate comparison,VideoCardz has organized this percentage tableRTX 4080 12GB as the benchmark, the game A Plague Tale: Requiem has a gap of 30%:
It can be guessed that there may be too much difference to make this decision, because there will be RTX 4070 or RTX 4070 Ti in the future. If the performance of these two cards is not too different from the RTX 4080 12GB, it may affect the sales.