Nvidia is perhaps planning to launch a pair of various RTX 4080 graphics playing cards, supposedly geared up with 12GB and 16GB of video RAM, with each being launched concurrently if the most recent from the rumor mill is to be believed.

This comes from MEGAsizeGPU on Twitter (by way of VideoCardz (opens in new tab)), a supply we’d take with a pinch extra skepticism than regular.

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As talked about, the idea floated is that there will likely be two completely different RTX 4080 fashions with 12GB and 16GB of VRAM, which because the leaker factors out is actually a route Nvidia has taken previously – resembling with the GTX 1060 6GB and 3GB spins.

What’s completely different right here, although, is the assertion that each of those RTX 4080 variants will likely be launched at precisely the identical time.

In a earlier tweet, the leaker instructed that these RTX 4080 variants will even have completely different designs, with the 16GB mannequin sporting a 12-layer PCB (printed circuit board), and the 12GB a 10-layer PCB. The idea is that the latter will likely be Nvidia’s reference design (Founders Version) and in addition for third-party graphics playing cards, whereas the previous 16GB mannequin will likely be third-party solely.

Each RTX 4080 playing cards can have a “utterly completely different” PCB design, in actual fact, MEGAsizeGPU contends.

Evaluation: An entire heap of doubts – however possibly there’s one thing right here

So, what to make of this? Properly, the primary chance that may’t be dominated out is that this rumor is a lot scorching air; as we indicated earlier than, this isn’t one in every of our common extra trusted sources on Twitter.

That mentioned, Kopite7kimi, who’s a extra well-known leaker on that platform, has chimed in on this one, claiming (opens in new tab) that that is not less than “attainable”, and additional that the RTX 4080 16GB variant talked about may need beforehand been forged as an RTX 4090 model with an AD103 chip (slightly than AD102).

The latter chance doesn’t make any sense to us, both, to be sincere – however this does not less than level to this chatter being extra prone to be real. What appears extra possible to us is that these leakers are maybe selecting up on some completely different RTX 4080 fashions Nvidia has examined at numerous factors in improvement, so in that respect, this might be solely a lot noise from the grapevine. One in all these 4080 configurations might nicely be the ultimate product, probably the 16GB card in our e-book (as that’s actually the VRAM loadout which has been beforehand rumored).

If this pair of fashions actually are deliberate by Nvidia, we battle to see that they’d be launched on the similar time. Sure, Workforce Inexperienced has actually pushed out completely different configurations of GPUs – simply take a look at the RTX 3080, which got here in 10GB and 12GB flavors, however the latter didn’t emerge till additional down the road.

One other chance is that the lesser-spec purported RTX 4080 with 12GB might truly grow to be a pepped-up RTX 4070 (the Ti spin, presumably). Once more, that’d depart it a way off nonetheless, we’d assume.

Finally that is one large guessing recreation proper now, however what we are able to hope for when it comes to the RTX 4080 is that nonetheless this GPU seems, it might arrive earlier than too lengthy. That’s as a result of a photograph of a supposed completed mannequin of this graphics playing cards was noticed very not too long ago, and if real, this means {that a} November launch timeframe – as talked about previously – continues to be a definite chance.

That mentioned, there are additionally some rumors asserting that Nvidia may need to delay all its next-gen GPUs, save the RTX 4090, till early 2023, to provide some respiratory room to clear problematic extra inventory of current-gen RTX 3000 fashions.

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