Nvidia decided to “unlaunch” the 12GB version of the RTX 4080, but those graphics cards were still made by Nvidia’s board partners. This means that, as with any other piece of PC hardware, some benchmarks of these ill-fated GPUs are expected to leak out.
Nvidia’s RTX 4080 12GB, also known as the graphics card that was just not meant to be, appeared on Chiphell forums in leaked benchmarks. Nvidia may have chosen to cancel the RTX 4080 12GB and place all bets on the 16GB version instead, but Nvidia’s board partners were already hard at work preparing the graphics cards for an imminent launch.
In Cyberpunk 2077, running at 4K with ray tracing enabled, the card maintained an average of 67.52 frames per second . It was also put through a number of synthetic benchmarks, including 3DMark Speed Way where it scored 5,382 points; 3DMark Time Spy Extreme ; 3DMark Fire Strike Ultra , and the DXR Feature TEST .