Tuesday, November 8th 2022
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Cancelled NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 12GB Rebadged as RTX 4070 Ti, Bound for January?
NVIDIA had originally planned to launch the GeForce RTX 4080 16 GB, and the now-cancelled RTX 4080 12 GB in mid-November, but facing strong backlash from the press and social-media over the confusion the "RTX 4080 12 GB" branding would cause due to a vastly different hardware specification to that of the RTX 4080 16 GB (limited not only to the memory size); the company cancelled the launch of the RTX 4080 12 GB. We're hearing that with NVIDIA's board partners already having manufactured a large inventory of RTX 4080 12 GB cards, something had to be done. The partners could be undertaking a rebranding exercise, and the new brand is "GeForce RTX 4070 Ti."
According to kopite7kimi, a reliable source with NVIDIA leaks, the RTX 4080 12 GB will be rebranded as the RTX 4070 Ti. VideoCardz reports that the card is probably bound for a January 2023 launch. Based on the 4 nm "AD104" silicon, the RTX 4080 12 GB was supposed to max out the silicon, featuring 7,680 CUDA cores, 60 RT cores, 240 Tensor cores, 240 TMUs, 80 ROPs, and a 192-bit wide memory interface, running 12 GB of 23 Gbps GDDR6X memory (504 GB/s bandwidth). The RTX 4080 12 GB was originally slated to launch at a USD $900 price-point. It remains to be seen if NVIDIA is bold enough to sell a xx70-class product at $900. AMD is launching the Radeon RX 7900 XT at this price.
Sources:
kopite7kimi (Twitter), VideoCardz
According to kopite7kimi, a reliable source with NVIDIA leaks, the RTX 4080 12 GB will be rebranded as the RTX 4070 Ti. VideoCardz reports that the card is probably bound for a January 2023 launch. Based on the 4 nm "AD104" silicon, the RTX 4080 12 GB was supposed to max out the silicon, featuring 7,680 CUDA cores, 60 RT cores, 240 Tensor cores, 240 TMUs, 80 ROPs, and a 192-bit wide memory interface, running 12 GB of 23 Gbps GDDR6X memory (504 GB/s bandwidth). The RTX 4080 12 GB was originally slated to launch at a USD $900 price-point. It remains to be seen if NVIDIA is bold enough to sell a xx70-class product at $900. AMD is launching the Radeon RX 7900 XT at this price.
81 Comments on Cancelled NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 12GB Rebadged as RTX 4070 Ti, Bound for January?
I had the 3090 for 2 years so I know how its RT experience was, For 4K60 with RT, DLSS Balanced/Performance must be used (CP2077, DL2, Watchdogs Legion, The Ascent, Chorus,The Medium, Ghostwire: Tokyo, etc...).
it's a 4070TI with the same price: let's queue for the release sure vote with the wallet, but what consumers, the sheep, do affects us all in a duopoly. If there were 500 brands sure.
I just wish AMD would fire their marketing team and just clobber the crap out of Nvidia already.
And proved once again what a shitty company they are, absolutely disgraceful.
If they had a flag I'd burn it.
They will End the Pc gaming ecosystem given time, by pricing it beyond the masses.
4080-12GB/4070Ti was not much better than my 3080-12GB. This card has been a sh*t show from the getgo. I traded/upgraded form my 3070 to the 3080-12gb at a cost of £200 (full price was £610). Why the actual f*** would I or anyone pay £900 just to get AV1 encoding and DLSS3, er nope. I havent had an ATi or AMD card since my old HD5780, but this cycle I might be going AMD again after 11yrs!Sadly, this is how is going to be from now on. In order to keep their callous profits, also due to extremely low yields, they will keep the prices exaggeratedly high and availability low.
They took the model of the Oil Cartel.
Just vote with your wallet people.
who is really at fault here?
i said/wrote once that every 2/3 gen Nvidia drastically augmented the MSRP for the same classe between gens
from 1070Ti 450$ msrp
to 2070 Super (which was just a fancy marketing moniker for a Ti in the end) "just" 50$ differences at 500$ msrp
but the 3070Ti was 600$ msrp (1300) that's 100$ more
400$ more? for the 40XXTi? yay, a new low is attained, even given the world economy this is exagerated.
oh well, i am set on the GPU side and unless AMD pull a RDNA2 with its RDNA3, the price are unaltered by any crypto[self censoring] and as long as they are cheaper than their Nvidia counterpart i will have no issues staying with what i have now
AMD is also doing a kinda same move as Nvidia ...
the 7700 XT specs are really low, even compared to a 6700 XT,
128bit memory? that's a low end class specification ...
8gb instead of 12? alright alright ...
2048 cores? not 2500+? now the joke is too much ... it's at best the RX 7600/7500 XT direct successor ... not a 6700XT successor
a 7900 XT/XTX seems attractive on the other hand ... specwise ... price wise hum ... 899/999 is not that high compared to Nv offering at 1599$ msrp (more realistically 2200$+++)
i think for me it's the 7800/7900 line who win the cake, but both actor turned same ... only the top lines are interesting (series with 8 and 9 in their naming ) while the one under are oddly spec'd and look more like bottom mid end that higher mid end.
The 4070Ti should be faster than a 3090Ti and I expect more energy efficient doing it, I can't complain much about that, it comes down on the price...
Because it's actually on xx60 levels:
"I wish AMD rolls out... so that 4090 gets a bit cheaper.... but will buy it anyhow..."
Because it's those glancing past what's just happened IE they originally tried to butt f£#@ they're own consumer's, and backing it as all fine nothing to see here that Could be the issue I agree.
I know who I blame you do you.
Consumers are the ones with all the power here, that's the ones i blame.
There's also the ones that allow this monopolies and duopolies but that's another discussion. If there were enough competition things would not be like this.
That whole line of communication is one big troll & bait. Those that take it, are the losers here - they make their minds ready for a purchase no one in their right mind would approve.
People are not lining up for 900 dollar GPUs like this. They never did and never will. This segment still covers a mere 3-5% of the entire discrete GPU market. And you know what, the vast majority retweeting for the popularity contest hasn't even got the money to buy anything remotely like it. They're just there for entertainment, which is manipulative practices. That's what trolling is all about. If you base your opinion off (sometimes adult-) kids with too much time on their phone, you've really lost the plot. But that's what we do...
Social media has been one massive marketing channel since Facebook. People should have understood that by now, but apparently, a lot of them think they're smarter than that. That is also why they create their own theories - they damn well found it on the internet through 'research', so its true, when in reality those are all self fulfilling prophecies, because that is how the algorithms on social media work to create revenue/profit. People are literally the product and they don't realize it. Consumers are the ones with power, but they are being manipulated, and there should be a wise government above them to keep that manipulation out of markets.
That last part is missing, and thus, so is the first. Completely free markets have never worked, ever, anywhere, at anytime. Regulation always happened, or protectionism, or whatever to keep 'free markets' in check. Through globalization, those checks and balances are under pressure, and internet made it a free for all. Ever since, things are spiralling out of control, and people slowly earned a new level of stupidity. Collectively, because we are all influenced by it.
What this means, is that the gap between the 4090 and 4070 is about the same size as the gap between the 3090 and the wimpy little 3060 - at least in terms of core count. The 3060's GK106 was such a big disappointment in terms of how chopped down it was, that it struggles to beat the 2060 Super from its previous generation.
However, consequences from that statement should be a much more modest pricing on the lower part of the lineup, which is nowhere to be seen.
I could imagine that that faux "4nm" process is quite pricey, so NV won't be able to have competitive pricing anywhere where AMD's MCM chips (with cheaper memory!!!) are present.
That leaves us with what a 4070 will be. If you knock 10% performance off the 3090, you're left with a 3080. If they release a 4070 that doesn't perform as well as a 3080, that'll be really bad based on past generations of the xx70 models always coming out as being right about the speed of the previous gen's xx80Ti models.
4070Ti - performance of a 3090 and priced at $900. People will be going - it's like a 3090, but only $900!
I hope these folks realize that the xx70Ti models are not priced at nearly a grand in the past and a sharp price increase cannot be justified by inflation.
GTX 1070Ti = $450
RTX 2070 Super = $500
RTX 3070Ti = $600
If the 4070Ti comes in over $600 I'd consider it a complete failure. Seeing as how they wanted to push this as a 4080 12GB at $900, I'd venture to guess the 4070Ti will be priced at $800 and the 4070 will come in at $700 and both will be a complete waste of time, resources and money.
If the 4070 is around a 3080 performance, it would need to come priced in at $499 or less
Honestly, the $999 for 85% the performance of a 4090 sets a really good precendent for mid-tier GPU pricing this generation. I'm expecting some real competition at the performance level near AMD's next die size down the stack. If it's a 256-bit part with 6144 shaders, it really should be comfortably beating the newly-renamed 4070Ti.
This is all pretty wishful speculation for now though, based on the terribly small amount of imprecise performance data vs a 6950XT. Honestly, AMD's numbers of "1.5x faster" are woefully inaccurate. It could be 1.45x rounded up or 1.549x rounded down. "55% faster" is actually a 22% improvement over "45% faster" so we've potentially got a 22% margin of error in AMD's data, which doesn't really help anyone accurately zero in on where the 7900XTX really lies in comparison to the 4090.
Chronic onlineness goes missed by people now the same way TV brain rot went overlooked in the 80s. It used to be limited to loners, but now, even your average normie is internet-brained.
So much has changed when it comes to what influences people and we havent caught up. I dont really fault people entirely for their poor decisions and observations. When it comes to the internet, there are a lot of natural biases at play. I think we are all a little lost these days. I think the levels of manipulation and confusion introduced by the internet functionally disempower people when it comes to thinking for themselves and properly protecting their interests. Toxic behaviors and attitudes have been normalized to the point where I dont think your average person even appreciates the levels of negativity and and internet-based meta-thinking they carry with them as a simple byproduct of constant engagement with social media. The screen still turns off, but you dont fully leave that reality.
I like to think there is a lot about human decision making that happens outside of a person's awareness. We are collectively learning what it means to take that for granted. At some point, a person has to look inward at all of the meaningless things that have come to live inside them and start asking where it is all coming from.
Sadly, the pace of modern living essentially deprives many of much opportunity or even encouragement to keep to that level of introspection. I think the amount of effort it takes now is unreasonable to hold people to. Emotional fatigue sets in and people understandably reach for what is closest to them for resolution. To me its a simple matter of society leaving more people in that position than it used to.
I think with more understanding and yes, regulation, peoples habits in discussing, observing, and buying would change too. As it is now, the internet is a decision-making and emotional-processing hazard that nobody is prepared for and many are taking major advantage of - its a novel drug.