Poor little startup: NVIDIA canceled the GeForce RTX 5080 with 24 GB of VRAM due to the high cost of GDDR7 — rumor
Translated with AI from the Russian original.
Earlier, users noticed the disappearance of the RTX 5080 from the official NVIDIA store.
According to a new report from Board Channels, NVIDIA has abandoned the development and release of the GeForce RTX 5080 version with 24 GB of GDDR7 and intends to continue producing the original model with 16 GB of memory.
The main problem lies in the need to use 3 GB GDDR7 modules instead of the 2 GB ones used in existing RTX 50 series graphics cards. Sourcing such chips at an acceptable price reportedly proved to be significantly more difficult, and their cost substantially exceeds the price of standard modules.
This would have directly affected the final cost of the GeForce RTX 5080 with 24 GB of memory. It was estimated that the price of such a modification could approach $2,000. For comparison, the MSRP of the GeForce RTX 5080 Founders Edition with 16 GB of VRAM is $999.
Such a high price would likely have negatively impacted demand, so NVIDIA decided to abandon its initial plan. Instead, the company will continue producing the GeForce RTX 5080 with 16 GB of GDDR7.
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