Although Nvidia has made plenty of great GPUs over the years, it's also made some less than great cards as well. Here are some of the most infamous Nvidia GPUs.
Nvidia has a strong pedigree for making great graphics cards. It has never really been the underdog and its greatest GPUs outshone those of its rival AMD time and time again. But despite Nvidia’s penchant for innovation and technological advancement, it has put out quite a few abominable cards, cursed not necessarily by bad technology, but often by poor decision making. Let’s reminisce on some Nvidia GPUs we wish we could forget.
Nvidia ended up killing the GTX 400 series ignominiously just eight months later by launching the GTX 500 series, which was basically a fixed version of Fermi. The new GTX 580 was faster than the GTX 480, consumed less power, and had the same price tag. Nowadays, there are a few games where the 970 struggles due to its suboptimal memory configuration. But performance isn’t the point here; ultimately, Nvidia more or less lied about what the GTX 970 had, and that’s not acceptable and really stains the legacy of an otherwise great card. Unfortunately, playing fast and loose with GPU specifications is a habit Nvidia has had trouble breaking ever since.
The worst example of Nvidia doing this bait and switch would have been the RTX 4080 12GB, which was supposed to have just 78% of the cores of the RTX 4080 16GB, making it feel more like an RTX 4070 than anything else. However, the backlash to this was so intense that Nvidia actually canceled the RTX 4080 12GB, which fortunately means it will never be on this list.
Nvidia had overplayed its hand, and it knew. Just eight months after the 20 series launched, Nvidia released its RTX 20 Super GPUs, a throwback to the GTX 500 series and how it patched the 400 series. The new Super variants of the 2060, 2070, and 2080 featured more cores, better memory, and lower price tags, somewhat fixing the problems of the original 20 series.
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