Nvidia Geforce RTX 4080: Faster memory with 23 Gbps and 340 watts TBP (rumor)

Nvidia’s Geforce RTX 4080 could be one of the most interesting new cards for gamers that find a balance between price, memory expansion and processing power. Nvidia currently seems to be testing different specifications for this GPU in order to find an acceptable compromise between its own costs and the performance of the graphics card. According to the latest rumor from the leaker “kopite7kimi”, the RTX 4080 will receive faster GDDR6X memory than originally thought. So far, 21 Gbps were supposedly planned and thus a tie with the Geforce RTX 3090 Ti, but now it should be 23 Gbps.

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If the Geforce RTX 4080 gets this faster memory, it is most likely also installed on the Geforce RTX 4090 and again represents an upgrade over the RX 3090 Ti. According to previous information, the faster memory increases the memory bandwidth from 676 to 736 Gb/s . In addition to the changes in memory, there is another positive development. So far, the rumored total board power (TBP) for the RTX 4080 was a very high 420 watts. Now it is said to have been reduced to 340 watts. The Timespy Extreme score is said to remain unaffected by this at around 15,000 points.

The rest of the specifications have remained the same and the Geforce RTX 4080 is said to continue to be released with a GA103 GPU with 9,728 CUDA cores and 16 GiB GDDR6X memory on a 256-bit wide bus. Although the launch of the new architecture should take place within a few months, it is not certain that the specifications are final, since Nvidia often changes them again very shortly before the launch with its own product cycle.

Source: Videocardz