A few weeks ago, Nvidia ‘unlaunched' the RTX 4080 12GB due to criticism around the performance gap between the 12GB version and the 16GB version. However, the GPU at the heart of that SKU will live on and will reportedly return as an RTX 4070 Ti early in 2023. 

This report comes from kopite7kimi, one of the most prominent Nvidia leakers on Twitter. Considering the official performance results of the RTX 4080 12GB shared by Nvidia, the change in the naming makes sense. Compared to the 16GB variant, there's a considerable performance gap (about 24% to 30%). In the end, the GPU is more akin to something belonging to the RTX 4070 series than an RTX 4080 series GPU, so the naming is more appropriate.

The original RTX 4080 12GB will become RTX 4070 Ti instead.

— kopite7kimi (@kopite7kimi) November 8, 2022

As a reminder, the RTX 4080 12GB/RTX 4070 Ti packs an AD104 GPU with 7680 CUDA cores clocked at 2.6GHz. There's 12GB of GDDR6X memory running at 21Gbps across a 192-bit memory bus for a total bandwidth of 504GB/s. The TDP will probably remain at 285W.

The leaker claims the new RTX 4070 Ti will release in January. If that is true, then we may see the card revealed at CES 2023.

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KitGuru says: A lot of people thought the 12GB RTX 4080 should have been a base RTX 4070 or possibly even an RTX 4060 Ti, so it will be interesting to see the reaction here. It will also be interesting to see if Nvidia's planned pricing for this SKU changes in the face of AMD's new RX 7900 series graphics cards. 

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