NVIDIA Apparently Doesn’t Bear in mind The Final Reminiscence Debacle
One would assume that after the 3.5 GB reminiscence controversy NVIDIA would watch out about guaranteeing the quantity of VRAM on their GPUs was completely clear which works to indicate why you need to by no means assume something. The brand new RTX 4080 revealed at GTC is available in two flavours and it appears it is probably not utterly evident to the common public which one you’re going to get. There are each an RTX 4080 16GB card an an RTX 4080 12GB card, each of which share the identical title.
It’s not simply the reminiscence which is totally different, the RTX 4080 has 9728 CUDA cores, a 2.51GHz Enhance clock, and a 256-bit reminiscence interface. The RTX 4080, then again, has 7680 CUDA cores, a barely increased 2.61GHz Enhance and a 192-bit reminiscence bandwidth. The facility consumption can also be a bit totally different, the RTX 4080 chews up 320W with a complete system energy of 750W whereas the RTX 4080 solely makes use of 285W and needs a complete system energy of 700W.
That is sure to not trigger any issues.
The excellent news is there is just one model of the RTX 4090, although it should value you $1600 to make certain of which card you find yourself with; in the meantime the RTX 4080’s will value “$899 and up“. The playing cards include new options along with elevated efficiency, as an illustration some outdated video games can profit from RTX Remix which permits NVIDIA playing cards to do some very fascinating issues with the lighting and textures of outdated video games like Morrowind. It appears seemingly you will want to obtain a bundle from NVIDIA for every recreation, which ought to be out there about the identical time the playing cards go on sale.
Jensen Huang additionally launched DLSS 3, demonstrating Microsoft Flight Sim at each a ridiculous decision and body charge, 4K at over 100fps is definitely spectacular! As with RTX Remix, this gained’t work on all video games however you’ll be able to anticipate newer titles might be seeking to make use of it sooner or later.
If you’re searching for some particular playing cards, PNY have already reached out to tell us that they are going to be releasing a VERTO GeForce RTX 4090, an RTX 4080 and an RTX 4080 within the first half of October. All playing cards might be PCI Categorical 4.0, have a triple fan cooler and supply DisplayPort 1.4a and HDMI 2.1 out. The packing containers will include extra than simply the GPU, inside you need to discover a VGA assist kits, PCIe-5 12VHPWR adapter and software program to run their EPIC-X RGB lighting.
