NVIDIA’s “Unlaunched” GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB Graphics Card Benchmarks Leak Out, Slower Than 3090 Ti In 3DMark

Benchmarks of the now canceled NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB graphics card have made their way to Chiphell Forums, giving us a look at what could've been the performance of the AD104 GPU.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB Graphics Card Benchmarks Leak Out, Cancelled Card Was Slower Than An RTX 3090 Ti

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB graphics card was supposed to launch next month at a price starting at $899 US. However, given the vast disparity in performance between the 16 GB and 12 GB models, NVIDIA decided to cancel the 12 GB variant while keeping the 16 GB variant on track for a 16th November launch.

Given how close this cancellation occurred to the launch, AIBs definitely received a batch of the Ada AD104 GPUs to prepare their custom models and we know from our own sources that these cards were definitely ready to ship out to retailers and distributors. Now despite the cancellation, gaming and synthetic benchmarks from these samples are starting to leak out.

There are no details such as the model number for this specific GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB graphics card but it does feature a max GPU clock as high as 2820 MHz and consumes 262W of power. The GPU was able to deliver a peak FP32 compute power of 42 TFLOPs in the AIDA64 GPGPU test. We cannot say for sure if these are reference or overclocked specs but the card wasn't going to launch in FE variants anyways and since we are talking custom model, it is likely to be a factory overclock.

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As for other synthetic benchmarks, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB graphics card scored 5382 points in 3DMark Speed Way, 10794 points in 3DMark Time Spy Extreme, 13472 points in 3DMark Fire Strike Ultra, and 66.98 FPS in the DXR Feature Test.

There's also the Cyberpunk 2077 in-game benchmark which was tested at 4K with Ray Tracing enabled. The GPU scored an average of 67.52 FPS.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB 'Official' Specifications (Now Cancelled)

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 will also feature a 12 GB variant that is expected to utilize the AD104-400 GPU configuration with 7,680 cores or 60  SMs enabled which is the full-fat SKU. The GPU will be packing 48 MB of L2 cache and features a 192-bit bus interface so that's why we are getting up to 12 GB of GDDR6X capacities. The memory is said to be running at 21 Gbps speeds for a memory bandwidth of 504 GB/s. The card is said to be clocked at a 2610 MHz boost clock however the peak frequency will be higher.

• NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB "Official" TBP - 285W
• NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 10 GB "Official" TBP - 320W

For power, the TBP is now set to be rated at 285W which is a 35W decrease versus the RTX 3080 10 GB model. The card is expected to offer better performance than the RTX 3080 but given the specs cut over the 4080 16 GB, there will be a big gap between both models. The maximum BIOS TGP is said to be rated at 366W.

The huge performance gap between the RTX 4080 16 GB and RTX 4080 12 GB was made evident when NVIDIA published its own gaming benchmarks showing us both native & DLSS performance numbers. As per the benchmarks, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB graphics card was around 11% slower than the RTX 3090 Ti in gaming and you can also see in the synthetic benchmarks that the card is barely on par with the RTX 3090 Ti while costing $900 US. So the RTX 4080 12 GB had to be canceled and now we can expect a new card to take its place and offer better value to gamers.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 Series Official Specs:

Graphics Card Name	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 D	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060
GPU Name	Ada Lovelace AD102-300	Ada Lovelace AD102-250	Ada Lovelace AD103-300	Ada Lovelace AD104-400	Ada Lovelace AD104-250	Ada Lovelace AD106-350	Ada Lovelace AD107-400
Process Node	TSMC 4N	TSMC 4N	TSMC 4N	TSMC 4N	TSMC 4N	TSMC 4N	TSMC 4N
Die Size	608mm2	608mm2	378.6mm2	294.5mm2	294.5mm2	190.0mm2	146.0mm2
Transistors	76 Billion	76 Billion	45.9 Billion	35.8 Billion	35.8 Billion	22.9 Billion	TBD
CUDA Cores	16384	14592	9728	7680	5888	4352	3072
TMUs / ROPs	512 / 176	TBD	320 / 112	240 / 80	184 / 64	136 / 48	TBD
Tensor / RT Cores	512 / 128	456 / 128	304 / 76	240 / 60	184 / 46	136 / 34	TBD
L2 Cache	72 MB	72 MB	64 MB	48 MB	36 MB	32 MB	24 MB
Base Clock	2230 MHz	2280 MHz	2210 MHz	2310 MHz	1920 MHz	2310 MHz	1830 MHz
Boost Clock	2520 MHz	2520 MHz	2510 MHz	2610 MHz	2475 MHz	2535 MHz	2460 MHz
FP32 Compute	83 TFLOPs	TBD	49 TFLOPs	40 TFLOPs	29 TFLOPs	22 TFLOPs	15 TFLOPs
RT TFLOPs	191 TFLOPs	TBD	113 TFLOPs	82 TFLOPs	67 TFLOPs	51 TFLOPs	35 TFLOPs
Tensor-TOPs	1321 TOPs	TBD	780 TOPs	641 TOPs	466 TOPs	353 TOPs	242 TOPs
Memory Capacity	24 GB GDDR6X	24 GB GDDR6X	16 GB GDDR6X	12 GB GDDR6X	12 GB GDDR6X	8-16 GB GDDR6	8 GB GDDR6
Memory Bus	384-bit	384-bit	256-bit	192-bit	192-bit	128-bit	128-bit
Memory Speed	21.0 Gbps	21.0 Gbps	23.0 Gbps	21.0 Gbps	21.0 Gbps	18.0 Gbps	17.0 Gbps
Bandwidth	1008 GB/s	1008 GB/s	736 GB/s	504 GB/s	504 GB/s	288 GB/s (554 GB/s Effective)	272 GB/s (453 GB/s Effective)
TBP	450W	425W	320W	285W	200W	160-165W	115W
Price (MSRP / FE)	$1599 US / 1949 EU	12,999 RMB (China-Only)	$1199 US / 1469 EU	$799 US	$599 US	$399-$499 US	$299 US
Price (Current)	$1599 US / 1859 EU	12,999 RMB (China-Only)	$1199 US / 1399 EU	$799 US	$599 US	$399-$499 US	$299 US
Launch (Availability)	12th October 2022	28th December 2023	16th November 2022	5th January 2023	13th April 2023	24th May / 18th July 2023	29th June 2023

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