It’s possible that Nvidia will abandon the RTX 4080 graphics card if a new rumor spreads, but it’s obviously a matter we deserve to approach with a lot of skepticism.
For starters, the source of the rumor is IT Home (via Tom’s Hardware), a Chinese tech site with a spotty track record, and the hypothesis itself comes from data from Bopantang.
According to the cited source, it’s possible that the RTX 4080 graphics card will simply be “removed” (note that this is possible, contrary to what the company claims) and Nvidia may upgrade it with the RTX 4080 Super (or 4080 Ti, depending on the name). scheme selected through Team Green). for).
Essentially, the incoming RTX 4080 upgrade will upgrade the existing RTX 4080, or that’s the controversy.
IT Home recently supplemented the rumor, heard elsewhere, that Nvidia would have 3 new Lovelace graphics card models, and also pointed out to Benchlife (another Chinese source) that one of them will be an RTX 4080 Super with 20GB of GDDR6X VRAM.
Well, there’s been a persistent rumor that sales of the RTX 4080 have been an uphill struggle for Nvidia, of course, since the graphics card’s launch. It’s an almost vertical struggle, and the timing of this report is interesting, as YouTube leaker Moore said. Law is Dead (MLID), a primary source of GPU (and CPU) rumors, noted that its retail resources claim that RTX 4080 sales are literally bad in its most recent video.
So, you might think that the idea of Nvidia considering canceling the RTX 4080 might carry some weight, rather than seeing it as flabby. Although the MLID theory is that Nvidia could simply increase the value of the RTX 4090, to keep up with what’s going on. in China (where the GPU will soon be banned, so unsurprisingly, demand is rising), to make the RTX 4080 more attractive (and better maintain its MSRP).
Mind you, we’re not talking about an outright cancellation of the RTX 4080, and we’re assuming that the source of the above rumor isn’t too rare either (although that’s unclear, maybe the source is). But we’re guessing Nvidia would just as well cancel, reducing production to almost nothing, than nothing.
As we’ve theorized before, it would actually seem too embarrassing for Team Green to cancel the RTX 4080 entirely, admitting it was a mistake, when Nvidia has already “launched” the other initial variant of the 4080 (12GB model). . As it turns out, Nvidia doesn’t know what it’s doing in this case, making mistakes, or at least that’s how we see it.
In addition, other rumor merchants have not discussed any card cancellations, and MLID in fact believes that the RTX 4080 will work alongside the new Super or Ti twist, and updates to the RTX 4070, if only to give them clever value, speaking, when launch. (Assuming the value of the 4080 is increasing, as is Nvidia’s alleged intention, according to MLID. )
The IT Home source also expects the costs of the RTX 4080 to increase, but not because of any strategic maneuvering with the costs of the RTX 4090, only because with the shutdown of production, 4080 inventory will soon be scarce in the field.
Time will tell and add vast amounts of spice to all this speculation. It’s pretty clear that Nvidia has some potential new contenders to take a spot on our list of the best graphics cards, but as far as what they are or how the Lovelaces work. The lineup will be revamped; well, chances are, the Green Team hasn’t made the final decisions yet.
Darren is a freelancer who writes news and articles for TechRadar (and T3) on a wide variety of IT topics, adding CPU, GPU, other diverse hardware, VPN, antivirus, and more. He has been writing about generation for about 3 decades and writing books in his spare time (his first novel, “I Know What You Did at the Last Supper”, was published through Hachette UK in 2013).
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