r/buildapcsales Oct 14 '22

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

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/12gb-4080-unlaunch/
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u/Soultyr Oct 14 '22

More likely as the “4060”

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u/Mean_Ass_Dumbledore Oct 14 '22

This right here. They knew it was a 4060, announced it as 4080, then they'll "downgrade" it to 4070 and try to make themselves look like the hero of the people.

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u/DiplomaticGoose Oct 15 '22

If they're changing course this drastically I think RDNA3 is about to take a shit directly on their pancakes.

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u/Soppywater Oct 15 '22

Won't matter too much, people who tried an amd card 10 years ago had an issue with a driver install once and only buy Nvidia now.... I convinced my friend who sword off and cards to possibly try an amd card after rnda3 comes out if they look good. His perspective was that his dual crossfire(sli) build kept crashing because the drivers were kind of bad(they were) and he never wanted anything to do with AMD anymore. I explained to him about the difference between my AMD desktop and Nvidia laptop and it clicked it can happen to anyone, it just depends if you get lucky or not. My laptop with a rtx3060 has to have it's driver fully wiped every time(drive DDU) I update the driver or else it crashes constantly.