Will the disappearing RTX 4080 12GB card arrive with a new coat of paint in less than two months? This is the latest rumor circulating around the web
NVIDIA canceled the launch of the GeForce RTX 4080 with 12GB of graphics memory in an unusual (or even unprecedented) but quite justified step – and now the leakers on the network estimate that the hardware that has already been developed and transferred to the card manufacturers themselves ahead of time will find themselves inside the model GeForce RTX 4070 Ti will be next in line to be officially launched in the Ada Lovelace family, at a celebratory media event at the upcoming CES exhibition in Las Vegas.
According to A popular Twitter tweeter In the field of hardware leaks, the missing RTX 4080 12GB will become the RTX 4070 Ti – a much more appropriate model name, apparently, since all estimates were that the future GeForce RTX 4070 will also use an AD104 core with several inactive processing clusters, literally Like the RTX 4080 12GB in question which is based on a fully active AD104 core.
For the most part, Ti model launches from NVIDIA have come as a later refresh to the vanilla models without the plug-in, but it’s a compromise that users can probably live with, even if the fresh RTX 4070 Ti is introduced to the world before the standard RTX 4070 – as in recent years, no It seems that there is some significant logic in the marketing people’s use of the addition of the Ti in the product names, when certain advanced and updated models receive it while others manage without it (the RTX 3080 12GB versus the RTX 3080 10GB, as one example).
According to a report on the WCCFTech website, the launch of the RTX 4070 Ti will be unusually fast – with the official announcement of the model on January 3, 2023, the lifting of the embargo over the official reviews on the network the next day and the start of practical sales of the cards in stores around the world on the 5 in January Another evidence that almost everything was ready for an earlier launch in terms of NVIDIA and its partners, before the sudden decision came to cancel the launch under the name RTX 4080 and required a slight additional time for reorganization.
In the meantime, until we find out whether the leaks are accurate or not, we can spend the next two months focusing on the GeForce RTX 4080 16GB which is approaching its practical launch – meanwhile the recommended prices appear to be far from providing a good surprise, with quite a few models that should reach price levels of $1,400, $1,500 and even $1,550, compared to a declared recommended base price of $1,200. These prices for advanced models are closer to the declared recommended base price of the RTX 4090, in fact, than to the price of the RTX 4080 – and that’s before we even mentioned the problem of stocks being snatched from the shelves at lightning speed that bring with them additional inflation for quite a few consumers who didn’t have time to get themselves a unit immediately.
