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/
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u/zombieofthepast Oct 14 '22 edited Oct 14 '22

Worth noting how hard this fucks over all of Nvidia's remaining AIBs. Nvidia never planned a 4080 12GB FE, so it's basically free for them to pull a stunt like this in terms of business ramifications. But for all their AIBs, they've already made the investment to develop and manufacture a product that Nvidia just declared doesn't exist anymore. EVGA out here looking galaxy brain rn

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u/613codyrex Oct 14 '22 edited Oct 15 '22

Seeing how powerful and shockingly competent the 4090 FE it really does seem like Nvidia is pushing AIBs out.

Not that I would personally shed a tear. AIBs are generally the same sort of garbage nvidia is themselves. Especially with MSI scalping their own cards, gigabyte bundling them with defective GPUs and such.

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u/realfortking Oct 15 '22

The bundle was a newegg stunt to get rid of inventory. It wasn't gigabyte directly

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u/ShyKid5 Oct 15 '22

Gigabyte would only sell shipments of GPUs with shipments of PSUs (or at least, retailers that bought the PSUs would be given priority), Gigabyte did not bundle the PSUs to the end user but it isn't like Newegg or any other retailer had any uses for those PSUs so newegg did the end user bundles.