Wednesday, October 21st 2020
NVIDIA Reportedly Cancels Launch of RTX 3080 20 GB, RTX 3070 16 GB
Fresh reports floating in the rumor mill's circulatory system claim that NVIDIA backtracked on its plans to launch higher VRAM capacity versions of their RTX 3080 and the (in the meantime, delayed) RTX 3070. These cards launched with 10 GB VRAM for the RTX 3080 and 8 GB VRAM for the RTX 3070, with reports circulating as early as their announcement that there would be double-capacity versions hitting the market just a few months later - specifically, in December of this year. Videocardz, however, claims that these long-rumored 20 GB and 16 GB SKUs have now been canceled by NVIDIA, who sent this news to its AIB partners - and the usage of canceled, not postponed, is perfunctory.
For cards theoretically shipping come December, this is indeed a small advance notice, but it might be enough for AIB partners to feed all their GA102-200 (RTX 3080) and GA104-400 (RTX 3070) silicon towards the already - if not readily - available models. This report, Videocardz claims, has been confirmed by two of their sources, and comes at the exact same day specifications for AMD's RX 6000 series leaked. It's likely NVIDIA already had knowledge of its competition's designs and performance targets, however, so this could be seen as nothing more than a coincidence. One of the publications' sources claims GDDR6X yields might be the cause for the cancellation, but this doesn't help explain why the alleged RTX 3070 16 GB card (with its GDDR6 chips) was also canceled. Remember: these are rumors on cards that were never announced by NVIDIA themselves, so take these with the appropriate salt-mine level of skepticism.
For cards theoretically shipping come December, this is indeed a small advance notice, but it might be enough for AIB partners to feed all their GA102-200 (RTX 3080) and GA104-400 (RTX 3070) silicon towards the already - if not readily - available models. This report, Videocardz claims, has been confirmed by two of their sources, and comes at the exact same day specifications for AMD's RX 6000 series leaked. It's likely NVIDIA already had knowledge of its competition's designs and performance targets, however, so this could be seen as nothing more than a coincidence. One of the publications' sources claims GDDR6X yields might be the cause for the cancellation, but this doesn't help explain why the alleged RTX 3070 16 GB card (with its GDDR6 chips) was also canceled. Remember: these are rumors on cards that were never announced by NVIDIA themselves, so take these with the appropriate salt-mine level of skepticism.
88 Comments on NVIDIA Reportedly Cancels Launch of RTX 3080 20 GB, RTX 3070 16 GB
As big Navi has 16 gb vram. This could cost nvidia some sales. Specially if big Navi is a real threat to rtx 3080 performance wise. People might reconsider amd over nvidia given more vram.
Going from 400kB to 800kB is a big jump in per-thread memory resources.
They'll do fine.
Anyway, IMO 20GB is overkill. By the time games saturate that the GPU will be too slow anyway.
Kind of reminds me of the HD5870 2GB edition, which never really saw the benefit of double VRAM due to the GPU becoming useless for those games that could use more VRAM.
I was considering going through EVGA's Step-Up program if ever they did release the 20 GB version, but realized it wouldn't help since I'm only running 3440x1440, which is only 25% more stressful than standard 2560x1440.
also its 10GB, not 8GB, for RTX 3080
and they havent even started using RTX I/O yet
They know that +10GB wont give them any more gains and that there is no point of producing a card with higher MSRP that 700$ that underperforms or is on par with RDNA2 flagship with much lower price. They will go for TSMC next year, thats their only chance.
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I know...
"...but we have heard again, the past years, the rumors and the hype about AMD GPUs and it turned out to be bubbles..." blahh blahh...
I agree. And 4 years ago AMD's best desktop CPU was the FX line and that was best in nothing (I had one for 5 years), and today claims to have the best CPUs for all workloads...
And?
.... don't buy one and stop complaining.