was criticized by major communities for the shrinking specifications of the newly released RTX 4080 12GB graphics card of NVIDIA. NVIDIA decided to stop the release of the previously released 12GB version of RTX4080 and make the 16GB version the only RTX4080 graphics card scheduled to be shipped on November 16, US time.
Previously, the 12GB version of RTX4080 was released together with the 16GB version RTX4080 and RTX4090, but compared with the 16GB version, the 12GB version has less memory capacity, the graphics processor is slow, and the CUDA core is fewer. Moreover, does not use the same GPU as the 16GB version, and it is only equipped with 192bit memory bandwidth, which is only 70% of the 16GB version, and the performance gap is huge. Compared with the 16GB version, the 12GB version is not as close to the previous RTX4070.
Nvidia stated that the product specifications were improperly named, and decided to stop the sale of this model product, destroy its packaging and promotional materials, and at the same time repay the material costs paid by the cooperative manufacturers in packaging and promotional. After
, Nvidia may sell the 12GB version again as RTX4070.
