Nvidia’s 12GB GeForce RTX 3080 packs a bigger GPU and a necessary bigger imprint impress

Nvidia absolute most realistic staunch revealed the GeForce RTX 3050 and RTX 3090 Ti at some point soon of its CES 2022 keynote final week, but that wasn’t your entire firm had up its sleeve. On Tuesday morning, Nvidia quietly and surprisingly launched a brand new 12GB model of GeForce RTX 3080 that fixes our ultimate (albeit minor) gripe with an otherwise stellar graphics card.

The 10GB of VRAM on the genuine RTX 3080 felt a exiguous lacking upright out of the gate, as games like Doom already chew up sizable portions of memory with every graphics knob cranked at 4K resolution. It potentially wouldn’t be one thing you’d delight in to stress about in most games soon, however the new model’s 12GB of GDDR6X solely alleviates any attainable concerns. Nvidia furthermore expanded the memory bus width on this model from 320-bit to 384-bit, which helps boost total memory bandwidth to 912GB/s, up from 760GB/s in the genuine.

Nvidia furthermore tweaked the GPU configuration of the new 12GB RTX 3080, bumping the CUDA graphics core depend from 8704 in the genuine to 8960 now. That, blended with the upgraded memory, ought to accrued form the 12GB RTX 3080 staunch a wee bit faster than the genuine, despite the truth that we’d’ve most trendy that Nvidia gave this card a a exiguous various title (like RTX 3080 Immense) given the exiguous-but-key GPU tweaks.

Don’t distress attempting to search out a Founders Edition model of this graphics card. Nvidia told PCWorld to contact board vendors (like EVGA, Asus, MSI, et cetera) for more product recordsdata—including pricing. Certain, Nvidia didn’t even slap an official MSRP on this harmful boy. Gulp. The distinctive 10GB model ostensibly retailed for $700 but is currently not likely to search out in broken-down stores, and is going for $1,500 to $2000-plus on Ebay reckoning on the model. Thanks to the continued GPU shortage, don’t quiz this give a do away with to to achieve aid low imprint.

Update: Yep, these aren’t low imprint. EVGA’s fashioned 10GB RTX 3080 XC Extremely Gaming model expenses $840 on the firm’s internet site. The 12GB RTX 3080 XC Extremely Gaming expenses $1,250—a $410 markup, and plan more than the non-Extremely model of the step-up RTX 3080 Ti XC Gaming, which expenses $1210. Smartly, if any of them had been in stock, that is. Desirous about that mining desirability is largely pushed by memory bandwidth, that isn’t with out a doubt horny, even supposing it’s a exiguous disheartening.

Serene, more GPUs is better than fewer GPUs. Which that you simply would possibly per chance presumably also no longer delight in noticed the 12GB RTX 3080’s originate whereas you weren’t paying shut attention—Nvidia didn’t originate any announcements or blog posts, it absolute most realistic quietly up as a lot as now the RTX 3080 family’s spec page and slipped point out of the GPU into its new driver originate notes—but it with out a doubt’s right here. We’ll strive to gain our arms on one for checking out.