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
I really am astounded by Jensen's marketing and how he has confuses people once more. If he was honest and real he would give a 2080Ti replacement with more VRAM than 11GB and a Titan form the beginning, end of story... not a "titan class" card with 10% gains that has no identity and no titan drivers.
On the other hand, erasing VRAM costs. If a game never needs more than 4GBs to store in an actual time it still can show benefits having 20GBs allocated by not deleting anything from the VRAM at all, only loading in.
Also how was Nvidia forced to cancel something that only existed in rumors?
I wouldn't be that sure if those will be cancelled.Wasn't some SKUs already leaked by their model names?
Both SKU's looked legit, but are likely being cancelled due to supply or market reasons.
3080 Ti would a hidden weapon in case 3080 meet tough competition, back then Nvidia even kept 2080 Ti Super at the ready if AMD decided to release Big Navi to challenge 2080 Ti. That didn't happen so 2080 Ti Super never left Geforce Now servers.
Always keep a back up ace in the hole when in doubt seems to be Nvidia motto.
i think that nv already had in their hands a big navy under dissection and due this they decided to cancel the higher vram cards ...
Sure, you can throw as many SKUs as you can, problem is you have to deliver them to clients.
They are done obviously but you can sell a card twice this way.
On a more serious note: I don't know why some of you blame it on poor VRAM availability when AMD is preparing a launch with 3 SKUs of 16 GB products. I personally think that Samsung's 8 nm node is to blame here - considering the fact that we haven't seen fully unlocked chips, or even heard about plans of nvidia launching one in the future. Yields must be extremely poor.
www.rockpapershotgun.com/2020/10/20/confirmed-ray-tracing-and-dlss-games-2020/