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Nvidia is taking a step back and “unbooting” the RTX 4080 12GB. The company was due to release two of his RTX 4080 graphics cards next month, an RTX 4080 12GB and an RTX 4080 16GB, but decided against releasing cards with vastly different specs.
“The RTX 4080 12GB is a great graphics card, but it doesn’t have a proper name. Having two GPUs labeled 4080 is confusing,” Nvidia wrote in a surprisingly terse blog post open). “So I hit the ‘unboot’ button on the 4080 12GB. The RTX 4080 16GB is awesome and will surprise gamers everywhere on November 16th. ”
When Nvidia first announced his RTX 4080, I was a little surprised to find that he had two of them on the way. The name alone suggests that these are his two models of the same card with different memory configurations, but they are actually two graphics cards with vastly different specs. After Nvidia announced the card, many people confused it and questioned why the RTX 4080 12GB wasn’t called the RTX 4070 to reflect its lower specs.
Surprisingly, Nvidia took this feedback into account and did something I never expected. Even Nvidia was convinced it was the right decision until recently. “It should be intuitive, right? 16GB is a better GPU and faster. I don’t think anyone thinks 16GB isn’t better than a 4080 [12GB]. Justin, Senior Director of Product Management at Nvidia Walker said in a preview of the RTX 40 series cards.