DegustatoR
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Scrambling as in "cancelling" something which was "announced" by the same sources who are now saying that it's "cancelled"?Yeah yields wouldn’t be new information at this point. Question is what could Nvidia have learned recently to have them scrambling. It doesn’t look good either way. I definitely don’t buy the story that Nvidia is backing off because they’re not impressed by Big Navi. That would be a silly reason to leave money on the table.
I mean, stuff like this happens in product planning more often than one could count, and - assuming that this isn't a wholly made up thing - the only difference here that this particular instance got leaked to public.
As for the possible reasons - who knows? Maybe they haven't got double capacity G6X chips from Micron on time and launching only a 3070 16GB would look weird in comparison to 3080 10GB. Maybe they've decided to spend all 1GB G6X chips they have on making twice as many 3080 10GB cards instead of wasting them on a 20GB model which would give them ~0% performance advantage over the 10GB one. Maybe there's some truth to the rumor of them moving to N7 next year - possibly with a new GA103 chip which would essentially substitute GA102 and provide an option of launching a "Super" upgrade for 3080 in about half a year from now in which case it would be best to leave 20GB option until then. I can think of another hundred of reasons off the top of my head and any and all of them could be true - it's impossible to say which one actually is without knowing.