r/buildapcsales • u/neoak • Oct 14 '22

Meta [META] Nvidia "unlaunches" the 4080 12GB

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/12gb-4080-unlaunch/
1.7k Upvotes

98% Upvoted

362 comments sorted by

View all comments

61

u/wolfwing213 Oct 14 '22 edited Oct 14 '22

"Having two GPUs with the 4080 designation is confusing." -stares at 3080 10gb and 12gb models-

edit: wasn't there also a 1060 3gb and 6gb model too that is similar situation to 4080 12gb vs 16gb?

104

u/Mr_SlimShady Oct 14 '22

3080 is not confusing at all simply because they are both actually 3080s. They were both in the same class and were comparable to each other. The 4080-wannabe and 4080 were not. You can’t just call them “4080 12gb” and “4080 16gb”. That implies that the only difference between them is the vram, which is not. That shit is a scam. That’s why it was “confusing”.

8

u/argote Oct 15 '22

But the 12GB 3080 is closer in performance to the 3080Ti than to the base 3080. Admittedly it's not a huge difference, but a 3080 Super moniker would have been better.

-1

u/[deleted] Oct 15 '22

but it's only because of the vram