Re:Unlaunching the 12GB 4080
by wongarsu on Friday October 14, 2022 @12:50PM
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Yeah, even if they had a good reason not to call one the 4070, the whole thing could still have been avoided by just calling them the 4085 and 4080. And the marketing people could probably have come up with something even cooler sounding, if somebody would have just stopped them from going with 4080 12GB and 4080 16GB.
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Re:Unlaunching the 12GB 4080
by FractalParadigm on Friday October 14, 2022 @01:10PM
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The funny thing is Nvidia already has 2 sub-part-numbers for better-than-the-xxx0-cards, without creating another line of xxx5 products. The 16GB could have been branded 4080 Ti or 4080 Super with the 12GB being the 'base' 4080.
That was my thought... they should have just called it a "Super" still leaving room for a Ti model later. Or bring back GS designation after... 4080 and 4080 GS. They had lots of options to add distinction.