In June this year, the foreign media OC3D cited sources of information that Nvidia has stopped the production of its RTX 3080 12GB graphics card due to the graphics card price reduction, no longer send RTX 3080 12GB GPU chip to its partners.
However, two months later, hardware tipster @MEGAsizeGPU claims that Nvidia has resumed production of the RTX 3080 12GB graphics card, possibly because there are too many GA102 GPUs in stock.
In addition, “Moore’s theorem is dead” news also said that NVIDIA is helping graphics card makers clear inventory of RTX 30 series high-end graphics cards to make room for the RTX 40 series.
The report says that NVIDIA has stepped in directly to help the graphics card maker clear its inventory of GA102 GPU (RTX 3080 and RTX 3090) cards to allow for greater pre-orders for the RTX 40 series. He said that even with the help of NVIDIA, it will take several months to completely clear the inventory of RTX 30 high-end graphics cards. In addition, the card maker will “own” the mid-range RTX 30 cards, such as RTX 3060 Ti and RTX 3070.
The NVIDIA RTX 3080 series includes the RTX 3080 10GB, RTX 3080 12GB, and RTX 3080 Ti (12GB). Previously, the news said that with the price of the graphics card has dropped significantly, its spread has also become smaller, Nvidia cut RTX 3080 12GB, in favor of the RTX 3080 Ti sales.
The RTX 3080 12GB has the same memory capacity as the RTX 3080 Ti, but the former has 8960 CUDA cores and the latter has 10240. it is worth noting that Nvidia has never previously announced the suggested retail price of the RTX 3080 12GB card.
