News New RTX 4080 Leak Drops Core Count Below 10,000, 40-Series Titan Rumors

[Admin]

A new RTX 4080 rumor was just Tweeted out, suggesting the previous 10,000+ CUDA core count for the 4080 was wrong. The estimated core count now sits at 9728.

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[spentshells]

the more that is leaked the less impressive this series becomes

 

[hannibal]

the more that is leaked the less impressive this series becomes

They are making room for 4000S series!
Nvidia has a problem. AIB have so much old stuff that they have to sell, so making the "current" 4000 series "weaker" they can sell old 3000 series at higher price. When the situation gets better they will release "upgraded" Super versions and again increase the price somewhat. Also it allows the Gddd7 to come market, so that the super highend versions get that upgrade also in addition of having more cores enabled!

 

[-Fran-]

They are making room for 4000S series!
Nvidia has a problem. AIB have so much old stuff that they have to sell, so making the "current" 4000 series "weaker" they can sell old 3000 series at higher price. When the situation gets better they will release "upgraded" Super versions and again increase the price somewhat. Also it allows the Gddd7 to come market, so that the super highend versions get that upgrade also in addition of having more cores enabled!

This is actually a good theory, as they've done it before with Turing.

Regards.

 

[jp7189]

This is actually a good theory, as they've done it before with Turing.

Regards.

This might work when they are only competing against themselves, but RDNA3 rumors are sounding pretty good.

 

[hannibal]

This might work when they are only competing against themselves, but RDNA3 rumors are sounding pretty good.

If RDNA3 is good. AIB will increase the "MSRP" by 300% and problem is solved!
It has not been price competition between Nvidia and AMD because AIB manufactures price the products based on their liking. If GPU is too good for the price (3060ti) they increase the price more. If the GPU is bad (6400) they reduce price somewhat.
So the "real" price advantage/disadvantage is somewhat meaningless, when AIB reprice everything, so that the price suits to their portfolio.

 

[renz496]

This might work when they are only competing against themselves, but RDNA3 rumors are sounding pretty good.

That's why AMD usually will let nvidia to launch first. If nvidia push the price higher than amd can price their card slightly under that or slightly above it.

 

[watzupken]

They are making room for 4000S series!
Nvidia has a problem. AIB have so much old stuff that they have to sell, so making the "current" 4000 series "weaker" they can sell old 3000 series at higher price. When the situation gets better they will release "upgraded" Super versions and again increase the price somewhat. Also it allows the Gddd7 to come market, so that the super highend versions get that upgrade also in addition of having more cores enabled!

This is what Nvidia was doing with the Turing generation. Basically they ring fenced the top end chip only for the flagship. They were forced to change direction when they launched Ampere as it was clear that the planned RX 6800 XT is no slouch and clearly outclassed the GA104 easily. So we got a good deal when they released a slightly cut down GA102 for the RTX 3080. Now the Nvidia learned their lesson that when they use the same chip for both the xx90 and xx80 series, the gap is too small and hard for them to charge a significant premium on the higher end GPU. So there we have it back to Turing strategy with a AD103 just for the RTX 4080, and a cutdown version to give them room to introduce the Super refresh later.