The slightly more powerful RTX 3080 now also appears at Nvidia
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The arrival of an alternative RTX 3080 GPU with 12 GB of video memory seems to be official, now that the card is also mentioned on Nvidia’s own websites.
Nvidia’s new GPU is clearly depicted on the
official webpage about the RTX 3080. In addition to the original RTX 3080 (10 GB) and the later RTX 3080 Ti (12 GB), an RTX 3080 with 12 GB can also be seen in the specification lists.
The arrival of this particular card was
mentioned before by insiders, with an expected release date exactly today. Recently, photos of RTX 3080 boxes with a ’12G’ denominator clearly visible.
Apart from the slightly higher GDDR6X- volume, a larger portion of Nvidia’s GA-102 GPU is also activated. The RTX 3080 (12 GB) runs on the GA102-220 chipset, which comes with 70 compute clusters — good for 8960 CUDA cores. This makes the card slightly more equipped than the original (8704 cores), but still a bit removed from the Ti model, which has 10240 CUDA cores. However, the base clock of the computing cores has been slightly reduced: from 1.44 to 1.26 GHz.