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NVIDIA is scaling back the RTX 3080 from 12GB
A hardware leak with good knowledge of board partners claims that NVIDIA is now making the RTX 3080 12GB SKU after discontinuing it two months ago.
The RTX 3080 12GB is one of the latest models released in January this year. This card was a cosmetic upgrade over the original 10GB model, but was a necessary update for the GA102 GPU at the time. The RTX 3090 series was very expensive.
In August of this year, NVIDIA had a huge inventory problem with the RTX 30 series, with too many cards for sale and not enough customers interested in buying a high-end card just two months before the launch of the next generation.
However, as NVIDIA makes more RTX 3090 cards with almost complete GA102 GPUs, the company is also getting partially broken GPUs that could end up in SKUs like the RTX 3080 Ti or RTX 3080 10/12GB models. According to MEGAsizeGPU, NVIDIA has just started making 12GB RTX 3080 cards again. The likely reason is the huge inventory of GA102 GPUs:
Due to a very large inventory of the GA102, Nvidia has resumed shipments of the 3080 12G.
The 3080 12G stopped production for less than two months and recently resumed production quickly.– MEGAsizeGPU (Z__Wang) 14. August 2022
NVIDIA can make 12GB RTX 3080 cards, whether or not the standard GA102 has enough compatible chips. We’ve seen this a lot as the company repurposed its high-end GPUs for other models just to continue producing cheaper SKUs. This may reduce revenue, but NVIDIA GA102 stock will drop one way or another.
The 12GB RTX 3080 has 8,960 CUDA cores (+256 more than the original), a memory size increase to 12GB, and a larger 320-bit memory bus. Interestingly, NVIDIA never announced the MSRP for this card.
They are: MEGAsizeGPU
