At the launch event of the RTX 40 series NVIDIA Announces GeForce RTX 4090, GeForce RTX 4080 16GB and GeForce RTX 4080 12GB. As for the first, any doubts you may have about it will undoubtedly be clarified by the analysis we published a few days ago, which, in addition to answering all these questions, explains why we are talking without hot cloths about absolute beasts, both for the most demanding players , so for, and that’s actually its biggest target market, professionals who need a GPU offering both raw power and a huge set of proprietary technologies to get the most out of it.

The RTX 4090 was the first GPU of this new generation to hit the market, but The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 16GB and GeForce RTX 4080 12GB were also announced along with it., with the initial forecast that they should debut on the market sometime in November, or in any case before the end of the year. But unlike what we’ve seen so far, in this case there was a marked difference between the two models. Let’s take a look at its specifications to see it clearly:

As you can see, the difference between the two is not just the amount of memory they contain, which can be deduced simply by looking at their names. In fact, and although both share the name GeForce RTX 4080, they have different GPUs and therefore we can expect performance differences between the two that exceed those caused by the difference of four gigabytes of RAM.

This caused some confusion at firstbecause some people identified GeForce RTX 4080 12GB as GeForce RTX 4070 de factosomething that would be reinforced by the price difference between the two models, since we remember that they will start at 1,469 euros for the 16 gigabyte model and 1,099 euros for the 12 gigabyte model.

So it seems that NVIDIA has taken note of these circumstances and as announced in a short official statement, GeForce RTX 4080 12GB Launch Canceled After Supposedly «having two GPUs labeled 4080 is confusing«. The statement does not clarify the future plans of this model, which we understand that it should already be on the production lines of manufacturers.

It doesn’t seem very likely that it will end up occupying the position originally planned for the RTX 4070but it wouldn’t make much sense to throw away all the design and development work on this GPU, as well as on potentially already produced units, so it’s possible that NVIDIA will decide to do some kind of rebranding for this model, as well as temporarily separate its launch from the launch of the RTX 4080 16GB .

While this is a surprising move and an acknowledgment that the choice of name may not have been the most successful, cI think NVIDIA is doing the right thing by canceling the release of this GeForce RTX 4080 12GB, although this removes the possibility of jumping to the new generation for those who saw this model as the only one that would fit their budget. Now, of course, we will have to wait for the launch of the RTX 4070 and RTX 4060, as well as whether NVIDIA finally revives the model, now retired, and how they position it between the 4080 and 4070. Maybe it will end up being the RTX 4075?