Regulatory filings suggest Nvidia’s scrapped RTX 4080 will return as the “4070 Ti”

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Last month, Nvidia took the unusual step of "unlaunching" a previously announced product. The 12GB version of the GeForce RTX 4080 graphics card was, by the company's admission, "not named right" and was delayed and rebranded to avoid confusion with the 16GB version of the RTX 4080 that launched. Besides having less RAM, the 12GB version of the RTX 4080 also offered less memory bandwidth and fewer GPU cores than the 16GB version.

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