NVIDIA Investigating GeForce RTX 3080 Photo Leak

[Peter_Brosdahl]

Image: NVIDIA



Over the weekend, an image of one of NVIDIA’s upcoming GeForce RTX cards leaked online, fueling many rumor mills across the world. With a radically new cooler design, and RTX 3080 clearly stamped on it, the photo has people wondering if it is an authentic leak of the unreleased GPU. Despite not being fully verified, fans even went on to create professional-looking renders based on the one image.



NVIDIA has now begun an internal investigation into the matter. New information regarding this has been brought forth by Igor Wallosek of...

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[Nanobot]

I wouldn't be surprised if the leaks are entirely intentional if to do nothing more than keep people talking about it. Mind share is invaluable.

 

[Uvilla]

I wouldn't be surprised if the leaks are entirely intentional if to do nothing more than keep people talking about it. Mind share is invaluable.

Of course, what they are investigating is how many Twitter mentions there are, and how many articles and posts... This is see where to start, to have a frame of reference with their marketing budget and projections.

 

[THUMPer]

I would be investigating a new design. They looked horrible. haha