On the GPU front, NVIDIA is actually using a slightly better version of their venerable GA102 GPU, which now is used across 5 different desktop video cards. So what does the latest RTX 3080 SKU bring to the table compared to the 10GB RTX 3080 classic? The high point is of course the memory capacity, but there are actually a few different things going on here. Simply put, the GeForce RTX 3080 12GB now exists, and for right now that’s enough for NVIDIA. Even the announcement of the card itself was buried in an announcement about DLSS support for a port of a Playstation 4 game ( God of War). Officially the card exists for high-end gaming, but NVIDIA isn’t bothering to put together any kind of promotional campaign outlining the benefits of the card, or why they thought it necessary to introduce a 12GB SKU now, etc. Which to be sure isn’t a criticism of NVIDIA, but it is a sign of the times. And even with NVIDIA having switched its non-3090 cards to Ethereum hashrate nerfed LHR versions over half a year ago, there’s no immediate sign that the heavy demand for video cards will wind down any time soon.Ĭonsequently, NVIDIA isn’t saying much about the new RTX 3080 SKU, primarily because they don’t need to. Instead, NVIDIA (and AMD) are left optimizing their product stacks to best match that insatiable demand, along with getting every useable chip in a card and on the market. NVIDIA and its partners are selling every card they can make, and as a result traditional product stack logic has gone flying out the window at 360 fps. The third member of the RTX 3080 family comes as the cryptocurrency-driven GPU shortage has officially entered its second year. This latest video card launch is relatively subdued launch for the company, and NVIDIA is not making much fanfare for the new card – nor are they announcing a price for it. Just as the name says on the tin, this latest GeForce card is more or less a version of the existing RTX 3080 with 12GB of memory, and the additional capacity and memory bandwidth benefits that come from that. NVIDIA this morning is quietly adding to its menagerie of high-end video cards with a third version of the GeForce RTX 3080, the simply-named GeForce RTX 3080 12GB.
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