"The RTX 4080 12GB is a fantastic graphics card, but it’s not named right. Having two GPUs with the 4080 designation is confusing," Nvidia says in a surprisingly concise blog post.

The RTX 4080 was originally announced in 12GB and 16GB variants, which caused a lot of community backlash. With fewer cores and less power, the 12GB model felt more like a rebranded RTX 4070 .

The RTX 4080 12GB was supposed to start at $899 and include 7,680 CUDA Cores, a 2.31GHz base clock that boosts up to 2.61GHz, 639 Tensor-TFLOPs, 92 RT-TFLOPs, and 40 Shader-TFLOPs.

In this video, we delve into the surprising news of NVIDIA canceling the RTX 4080 12GB graphics card. Join us as we explore the possible reasons and implications of this decision on the tech community ...

That means the RTX 4080 16GB and RTX 4080 12GB have a rather significant difference in power numbers, with the RTX 4080 16GB's default TGP being 340W, it's 55W higher than the 285W from the RTX ...

When the GPU was still known as the 12GB RTX 4080, it would have been released at $899 ( around £790 or AU$1,390) which would not translate well if it is going to be effectively rebranded as the ...

Back at its RTX 40-series launch, Nvidia unveiled a duo of RTX 4080s, the 16GB and the 12GB models. Due to backlash, the company unlaunched the latter and it's allegedly re-launching as the 4070 Ti.

On the other hand, Nvidia was already pretty deep into the release of the RTX 4080 12GB when it decided to pull the plug. Calling off the launch will likely cost Nvidia a pretty penny, and that ...

Pricing for the RTX 4070 Ti hasn’t yet been confirmed, but some rumors indicate that it will be cheaper than the $899 12GB RTX 4080. According to Wccftech, Nvidia may go with a lower $799 price ...

NVIDIA's now unlaunched GeForce RTX 4080 12GB graphics card was 'just starting production at most' when the company cancelled, or unlaunched it.

The decision to hit pause on the 12GB RTX 4080 is a good sign that Nvidia is paying attention. Get daily insight, inspiration and deals in your inbox Sign up for breaking news, reviews, opinion ...

The 16GB card launching on November 16 will run on the AD103 chip, while the RTX 4080 12GB was supposed to sport a third-tier AD104 GPU. From the beginning that looked a lot like it should have ...