According to multiple resources, NVIDIA has canceled the RTX 3080 20GB and RTX 3070 16GB variants, and that NVIDIA has also told its AIB partners to cancel all plans for the GeForce RTX 3080 20 GB and GeForce RTX 3070 16 GB graphics cards. The information was revealed by Videocardz who received it from two independent sources.
According to previous rumors, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 20 GB and GeForce RTX 3070 16 GB variants did exist and NVIDIA planned to release their cards sometime later but now according to the latest information, NVIDIA has decided to cancel their launch and it is currently unknown what the future holds for these cards.
The latest developments and news from AIBs that the source has received suggests that these two graphics cards are more or less canned and will not see a launch this year. RTX 3080 20GB and RTX 3070 16GB could launch at a later time, but the information from Videocardz clearly states that those SKUs have been canceled, not postponed. NVIDIA has already canceled its RTX 3070 Ti model (PG141 SKU 0), so the RTX 3070 16GB (PG141 SKU5) and RTX 3080 20GB (PG132 SKU20) will be joining the list.
Before the information of being canceled came the RTX 3080 20 GB was expected to be released in response to AMD’s Radeon RX 6900 and 6800 cards featuring the NAVI 21 GPU. Rumors and speculation for the doubled memory GeForce RTX 3000 series graphics cards picked up the heat soon before the cards were officially introduced.
It is currently unknown exactly why NVIDIA decided to cancel the launch of RTX 3080 20GB but it may be due to low GDDR6X yield issues, one source claims. The reason behind RTX 3070 16GB cancellation is unknown as it uses GDDR6 memory and it doesn’t have any shortages.
We will have to wait and see what NVIDIA is planning and how they act when AMD launches their Radeon RX 6000 series.
