Despite ‘unlaunching’ the GeForce RTX 4080 12GB slightly below a month in the past, it seems that Nvidia may be drawing up plans to deliver the GPU again to market below a unique title. A rebranding isn’t totally shocking, but it surely stays to be seen whether or not staff inexperienced will stick by the beforehand introduced value level for this graphics card.
Nvidia mentioned the rationale behind its choice to successfully cancel the GeForce RTX 4080 12GB was as a result of “having two GPUs with the 4080 designation is confusing,” which whereas true to a level didn’t communicate to the efficiency variations between the 2 fashions. Now, in keeping with kopite7kimi, the pixel pusher will probably be rebranded as the RTX 4070 Ti.
Considering that GeForce RTX 4080 12GB GPU efficiency beforehand fell behind the 16GB mannequin, an RTX 4070 Ti moniker is actually extra befitting of the pixel pusher’s energy. We’ll want to attend and see till we get our fingers on one, but it surely might be the perfect graphics card available on the market for below $1,000 USD.
It’s unclear when Nvidia plans to launch the RTX 4070 Ti, however the RTX 4080 12GB was initially scheduled to launch shortly after the RTX 4080 16GB, so it might be very quickly. We additionally don’t know whether or not it’ll nonetheless price $899 USD, particularly following the information that the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT will price the identical quantity.
