This Friday (14) afternoon, the PC community was surprised by some unexpected news. NVIDIA: company “releases” 12GB RTX 4080This was due to be released in mid-November.
“The RTX 4080 12GB is a great graphics card, but it doesn’t have the right name. It’s confusing to have two GPUs with the 4080 designation. ‘Start’ the 12GB RTX 4080,” the company said in an official statement on its website.
The statement ends by mentioning the 16GB model, which will be the definitive RTX 4080 on the market and will arrive in stores from November 16. The action taken by NVIDIA, Numerous complaints from the press and the public actually about the 12GB model An RTX 4070 disguised as an RTX 4080.
RTX 4070 in disguise?
Before the official announcement of the new generation Ada Lovelace GPUs, the general expectation was that the RTX 4090 would be announced with the RTX 4080 and 4070, but contrary to the speculations, the 4080 won a variant. Theoretically, the difference of just 4GB might seem forgettable to many. But the truth is that in practice the two cards are quite different.
The 16GB version with more memory has a number of important changes, such as the amount of CUDA cores we’ll see throughout the text. The frequencies have also changed, and especially the resource requirements. The model with the most VRAM has a TDP of 320W, while the 12GB version has a TDP of 285W.
As such, the RTX 4080 12GB is expected to make its way into the truly “official” RTX 4070 in the coming months, possibly with an announcement at CES 2023. However, reviews of the 4090 have already been published and are here to revolutionize the world. game.Gaming computers.
Source: Tec Mundo
