This may indeed be beyond the expectations of most users: after experiencing strong opposition, NVIDIA decided to cancel the GeForce RTX 4080 12GB version.

Nvidia said:
"RTX 4080 12GB is a great graphics card, but its name is not correct. It is easy to cause confusion by both graphics cards called 4080.
So, we pressed the "Cancel Release" button of 4080 12GB. RTX 4080 16GB is just as amazing and is expected to excite players everywhere on November 16.
Nvidia's approach is reasonable, and it is expected to be similar to the process on 4070 to avoid confusion.
In addition, according to official benchmarks, RTX 4080 12GB is significantly better than RTX 4080 4080 16GB slow. Not only that, the 12GB version also has fewer CUDA cores and lower memory bandwidth .