Wednesday, December 15th 2021
NVIDIA RTX 3080 12 GB May Offer 8,960 CUDA Cores
The RTX 3080 12 GB is still a rumored card, despite the increasing amounts of evidence towards its eventual release. The card's refreshed VRAM amount in particular seems to be an important part of NVIDIA's competitiveness plan, not only against AMD's RX 6000-series, which sport a psychological (and sometimes practical) advantage with their 16 GB VRAM capacities; but against Intel and its upcoming ARC Alchemist launch, which are expected to also offer 16 GB of VRAM at competitive shading performance levels.
But it seems that NVIDIA's refresh of the RTX 3080 graphics card won't be limited to a VRAM and bus width increase - CUDA core counts are now reported to have also increased by 2.9%, up to 8,960 from the RTX 3080 10 GB's 8,704 CUDA cores. The card is naturally still expected to make use of the GA-102 chip. An expected increased memory bus width of 384-bits will also bring about an increase in memory bandwidth, at 912 GB/s, the same as the RTX 3080 Ti (it stands at 760 GB/s for the RTX 3080).
All of these changes do however conspire to bring about an increase in the card's TDP as well - up to 350 W, the same as the RTX 3080 Ti and RTX 3090. The RTX 3080 12 GB is now expected to be available through mid-late January 2022 - it seems that board partners have already received some number of the chips that are meant to go into the RTX 3080 12 GB cards of this world.
Source:
Videocardz
But it seems that NVIDIA's refresh of the RTX 3080 graphics card won't be limited to a VRAM and bus width increase - CUDA core counts are now reported to have also increased by 2.9%, up to 8,960 from the RTX 3080 10 GB's 8,704 CUDA cores. The card is naturally still expected to make use of the GA-102 chip. An expected increased memory bus width of 384-bits will also bring about an increase in memory bandwidth, at 912 GB/s, the same as the RTX 3080 Ti (it stands at 760 GB/s for the RTX 3080).
30 Comments on NVIDIA RTX 3080 12 GB May Offer 8,960 CUDA Cores
note berseria has very low quality textures, most games with 4096x4096 or higher textures need more.
im curious why mvidia cant do 16 gig cards without charging 1.5 grand for a card.
As 3080 has 10GB/320-bit and this will use 12GB/384-bit bus since one chip is 32 bits wide. Removing that one chip from 1080 Ti/2080 Ti made the card 11GB/352-bit.
As a side note I discovered the browser leak issue is caused when using D3D9 for ANGLE, its by far the fastest, but it has this leak problem so that particular leak is resolved by switching to a different graphics API, but not much I can do about games using lots of VRAM, it is what it is there.
Games that use high quality textures however will need a lot of VRAM leak or not.
I do mod games that are moddable to enhance the experience, this nearly always involves better higher quality textures as well.