>>1364Sorta. There's a "4080 12GB" and a "4080 16GB". Based on the naming, you would expect them to have the exact same performance, and that they're just two different tiers of VRAM. Instead, the 12GB version is actually an entirely different chip altogether with lower specs than the 16GB version. Because of this, a lot of people have widely criticized Nvidia for selling 12GB as a 4080 when it should really be a 4070 instead. Because of this, they're also able to really dramatically raise the price of the 12GB because "it's a 4080" not a 4070.
>If they're having trouble selling all the 30xx stuff, are they going to make a significantly less 40xx models? Seems like that'd be a good idea if I were them.That would be the smart thing to do, but Nvidia paid for the capacity at TSMC (the chip fab company that makes Nvidia GPU chips) in advance of the crypto crash and wasn't expecting for there to be a massive amount of used cards flooding the market and depressing prices. TSMC in response to this basically said, "No. You bought the capacity, you're going to get it." and said they would at least allow a delay in production, but no cancellation. So, Nvidia is in a rock and hard place essentially competing against itself because of all the cards they sold to crypto miners that are selling for considerably less than MSRP.
Not to mention, AIBs are left with tons and tons of RTX 3000 series cards that they still haven't sold. Earlier in the year there was actually a big of a revolt against Nvidia by their partners where they essentially told Nvidia to screw off. Nvidia was essentially telling partners to take a loss on every card sold and to reduce their prices or else they wouldn't sell them RTX 4000 series cards. In response, they told Nvidia, "You gave us way too much RTX 3000 series anyways to where we could sit out RTX 4000 and still manage to sell RTX 3000 throughout the generation."