Despite being one of the less gaming focused presentation in the history of Nvidia (at least that is my opinion), eyebrows were raised when Nvidia announced a two variants of top tier gaming GPU RTX GeForce 4080 (no 4090 is not gamer centric exclusive GPU), but seems that plans might not come to fruition after all.

In a surprising u turn and that maybe a rebranding is coming, Nvidia will no longer launch the 12GB VRAM variant of RTX GeForce 4080, citing “not named right”.

“So, we’re pressing the “unlaunch” button on the 4080 12GB. The RTX 4080 16GB is amazing and on track to delight gamers everywhere on November 16th.

If the lines around the block and enthusiasm for the 4090 is any indication, the reception for the 4080 will be awesome.”

Basically the most expensive 4080, the RTX GeForce 4080 with 16GB VRAM will make it to the November 16’s launch at a MSRP of $899 and if you are in the market for upgrading, the latest offering includes 9,728 CUDA Cores, 780 Tensor-TFLOPs, 113 RT-TFLOPs, 49 Shader-TFLOPs of power, and GDDR6X memory, making it twice as fast as the GeForce 3080 Ti with 10% less of power consumptions.

It is difficult to speculate on how a rebranding of the 12GB VRAM GeForce 4080 could go as Nvidia already have the 4070 for the 1440p realm as a main offering for 2023 and practically, would leave in a weird spot and I might dare to say that this 4080 may never see the light of the day or at least, the last stretch of the Lovelace architecture hopefully from 2 to 3 years.

Via Nvidia