Remember the GeForce RTX 5080 Vanguard box that MSI showed in a promotional video? (pictured above). It turns out MSI has neither taken the video down nor explained the mistake. Obviously, for someone who has never heard of the RTX 5080, seeing 24GB on a box may seem misleading, given that NVIDIA never announced such a GPU. Luckily, this packaging was never used for the actual product.
While MSI has not explained the mistake in the original video, they actually listed the same RTX 5080 card again, with the same (presumed) mistake. This graphics card variant is shown as compatible with the MSI X870 motherboard:
RTX 5080 24GB, Source: MSI
Since the RTX 5090, 5070 Ti, and 5070 are also included in this list, it is almost certainly a mistake (a typo). Yet, it is rare to see one company making the same mistake twice. Our theory is that NVIDIA might have at some point communicated that the RTX 5080 would use 24GB of memory, and this was a last-minute change in specs not caught by all marketing departments.
So, while immediate plans do not mention such an SKU, it is very likely that NVIDIA will upgrade its RTX 5080 to 24GB as soon as SUPER/Ti variants drop as NVIDIA reaches mid-product cycle. The 3GB GDDR7 memory, which would be required for such a GPU configuration, is already used by mobile GPUs like the RTX 5090 Laptop GPU.
Source:
MSI_Gaming (Reddit) via
Uniko’s Hardware
