NVIDIA To Rebadge “Unlaunched” GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB As The RTX 4070 Ti, Early 2023 Launch Rumored

NVIDIA is rumored to reintroduce its "Unlaunched" GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB graphics card as the RTX 4070 Ti in early 2023.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Rumored To Feature The Same Specs As The "Unlaunched" RTX 4080 12 GB When It's Introduced In January 2023

Last month, NVIDIA, in a first, canceled (or more precisely unlaunched) its GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB graphics card. The reason for this cancellation was the fact that the RTX 4080 16 GB and RTX 4080 12 GB, which featured a similar name, offered a very wide performance gap. Hence, it did not make much sense to have two similar named cards with varying performance targets.

In the performance benchmarks that NVIDIA officially shared prior to the cancellation of the RTX 4080 12 GB, we saw performance differences of as much as 25-35% between the two variants. The GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB was mostly on par or slightly slower than the RTX 3090 Ti while the RTX 4080 16 GB was around 35-40% faster. Now as per Kopite7kimi, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB will reappear as the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti. It makes sense to call the GPU the RTX 4070 Ti since it was based on the full AD104 GPU die while the RTX 4070 is most likely going to feature a cut-down die.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB 'Official' Specifications (Now Cancelled)

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 will also feature a 12 GB variant that is expected to utilize the AD104-400 GPU configuration with 7,680 cores or 60  SMs enabled which is the full-fat SKU. The GPU will be packing 48 MB of L2 cache and features a 192-bit bus interface so that's why we are getting up to 12 GB of GDDR6X capacities. The memory is said to be running at 21 Gbps speeds for a memory bandwidth of 504 GB/s. The card is said to be clocked at a 2610 MHz boost clock however the peak frequency will be higher.

• NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB "Official" TBP - 285W
• NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 10 GB "Official" TBP - 320W

For power, the TBP is now set to be rated at 285W which is a 35W decrease versus the RTX 3080 10 GB model. The card is expected to offer better performance than the RTX 3080 but given the specs cut over the 4080 16 GB, there will be a big gap between both models. The maximum BIOS TGP is said to be rated at 366W.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 Series Official Specs:

Graphics Card Name	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 16G	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 12G
GPU Name	Ada Lovelace AD102-300	Ada Lovelace AD103-300	Ada Lovelace AD104-400
Process Node	TSMC 4N	TSMC 4N	TSMC 4N
Die Size	608mm2	378.6mm2	294.5mm2
Transistors	76 Billion	45.9 Billion	35.8 Billion
CUDA Cores	16384	9728	7680
TMUs / ROPs	512 / 176	320 / 112	240 / 80
Tensor / RT Cores	512 / 128	304 / 76	240 / 60
Base Clock	2230 MHz	2210 MHz	2310 MHz
Boost Clock	2520 MHz	2510 MHz	2610 MHz
FP32 Compute	83 TFLOPs	49 TFLOPs	40 TFLOPs
RT TFLOPs	191 TFLOPs	113 TFLOPs	82 TFLOPs
Tensor-TOPs	1321 TOPs	780 TOPs	641 TOPs
Memory Capacity	24 GB GDDR6X	16 GB GDDR6X	12 GB GDDR6X
Memory Bus	384-bit	256-bit	192-bit
Memory Speed	21.0 Gbps	23.0 Gbps	21.0 Gbps
Bandwidth	1008 GB/s	736 GB/s	504 GB/s
TBP	450W	320W	285W
Price (MSRP / FE)	$1599 US	$1199 US	$899 US
Launch (Availability)	12th October 2022	16th November 2022	Cancelled

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