NVIDIA Now Ships GeForce RTX 4080 With AD103-301 GPU

The NVIDIA AD103-301 GPU has been confirmed by Gainward

NVIDIA to introduce new types of Ada GPUs.

Gainward has become the first company to confirm a new AD103 GPU variant. The updated silicon called AD103-301 brings minor changes to end users, but will help board partners keep cost down.

The first rumors about XX0/XX1 GPU variants surfaced last week with updated RTX 4070 non-Ti specs. NVIDIA has informed board partners that two GPU variants will be available for this SKU. This was later confirmed by HKEPC who provided more information on the mentioned AD104-25X GPU variants for the upcoming GeForce model:

We can now confirm that board partners have already been notified about a couple of GPU specs for the RTX 4070. The “251” GPU will enter mass production a few weeks after the “250,” and will require “a few fewer components,” a source claims. Ultimately, this should reduce the cost of the GPU, but not significantly.

This change has already been implemented on the RTX 4080 model shipped with the AD103-300 or AD103-301 GPUs, both of which are said to offer the same performance and capabilities, but are a new design that requires changes in the PCB.

Gainward RTX 4080 Specs, Source: Gainward

Gainward confirms that both variants include the same clocks, TDP and GPU configuration. Furthermore, the company hasn’t released a new revision to existing cards (such as we had with the LHR models), which means the AD103-300 and 301 are essentially the same GPUs.

Rumored specifications of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 series
VideoCardz.com	RTX 4090	RTX 4080	RTX 4070 Ti	RTX 4070	RTX 4060 Ti
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Council-SKU	PG136-SKU330	PG136-SKU360	PG141-SKU331	PG141-SKU336/337	PG190
building	Ada (TSMC 4N)	Ada (TSMC 4N)	Ada (TSMC 4N)	Ada (TSMC 4N)	Ada (TSMC 4N)
GPU	M 102 – 300	M 103 – 300/301	AD 104-400	AD104-250/251	AD 106 – 350
CUDA cores
clock increase				TBC	TBC
memory
memory bus
The default is TGP
release date	October 12, 2022	November 16, 2022	January 5, 2023	March (?) 2023	TBC