GeForce RTX 4080: models with 12 and 16 GB debuting at the same time?

The GeForce RTX 4080 it could really come in two versions, one with 12GB and one with 16GB of memory. After the first rumors yesterday, the leaker MEGAsizeGPU has increased the dose by declaring that the two cards will be presented and introduced at the same time. In his tweet he states that NVIDIA will follow what they did with the GTX 1060 with 6 GB and 3 GB of memory, although he is wrong because the two variants arrived a month apart.

Either way, NVIDIA seems to want to follow along a different path than the one traveled in recent years, when a model name had well-defined specifications and not several variations. Staying with the latest series, the well-known RTX 3000, NVIDIA immediately introduced a GeForce RTX 3080 with 10 GB of memory in September 2020, leaving it on the market exclusively for a long time, before joining it with a 12 GB model in January of this year. ‘year.

Alleged GeForce RTX 4080 Founders Edition appears in a shot: real or fake photo?

Apparently it seems that in Santa Clara they want to speed up the times, immediately offering two RTX 4080s. if the two solutions will have the same GPU on board (so far for the RTX 4080 we talked about AD103) and if the rest of the features will remain the same – for example, the memory bus could vary, but not only. Obviously, as we already remembered yesterday, it cannot be ruled out that NVIDIA is throwing some smoke into the leakers’ eyes and competition in view of the presentation scheduled in the coming weeks.