The Nvidia RTX 4080 GPU may not be launching this year after all

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The latest GPU rumours are suggesting that Nvidia may not be releasing the RTX 4080 this year(opens in new tab) after all, with only the top-end RTX 4090 GPU seeing the light of day in 2022. We had expected that we'd at least see the top three tiers of the Ada Lovelace GPU generation sometime from September onwards, which would have seen the RTX 4090, the RTX 4080, and the RTX 4070 rolling off the production line to delight the frame rate loving masses.

But a host of different factors have led to speculation that Nvidia may be changing this plan, and be pushing back the launch of its new graphics card generation in order to allow the sudden glut of current-gen graphics cards to be sold through in the channel. 

Personally, I can see Nvidia maybe nudging the launch back later in the year, but I'd be really surprised if only the RTX 4090 got out ahead of New Year's Day.

With the cryptocurrency crash, and the easing of the global supply chain crisis, there are more RTX 30-series—and competing AMD Radeon RX 6000-series—graphics cards out in the wild. And that's just the new cards on the shelves of retailers, not considering the expected, and yet-to-hit, flood of second-hand mining cards from crypto bros looking to recover some of their losses as they get out of the mining game for good. Or at least for now.

YouTube channel, Moore's Law is Dead(opens in new tab), has cited sources at Nvidia's graphics card partners as being exasperated with the amount of stock still in the channel, suggesting that «Nvidia underestimated how desperate we were getting.» They have reportedly refused to keep buying current-gen GeForce chips until they can sell their current inventories of graphics cards and are «willing to risk Lovelace [the