MSI made two mistakes that point to a possible 24 GB version of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080. First, they printed "24 GB GDDR7" on an RTX 5080 Vanguard box. Later, their MAG X870 Tomahawk motherboard page listed the card with 24,576 MB memory. These errors happened at different times, which makes them pretty interesting.
NVIDIA might have planned 24 GB for the RTX 5080 from the start. They could have told partners about using 3 GB chips across a 256-bit memory bus on the "GB203" chip. But plans changed before launch, leading to the current 16 GB version. Or maybe they still have a 24 GB model coming soon, possibly called "RTX 5080 24 GB." The current RTX 5080 already uses the full "GB203" chip, meaning any new version would just offer...