Rumor mill: The subsequent entry in Nvidia’s {powerful} however wallet-crushing Ada Lovelace collection, the RTX 4070, appears set to reach this April. The tech large has reportedly revealed to its companions plans for launching the cardboard in two months, although it by no means confirmed a exact date.
VideoCardz writes that it attained embargo paperwork from Nvidia revealing launch info for the RTX 4070. The embargo info is listed as To Be Decided (TBD), however the on-shelf date, which is the precise launch, is down as April.
The RTX 4070 is, in fact, the lately launched RTX 4070 Ti‘s (previously the RTX 4080 12GB) little brother. Like its sibling, the cardboard will possible be based mostly on the AD104 GPU and pack 12GB of GDDR6X reminiscence.
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Being a less-powerful, non-Ti model means the RTX 4070’s GPU will probably be reduce down to five,888 cuda cores and have speeds between 1,920 MHz and a couple of,475 MHz. The RTX 4070 Ti, for comparability, has 7,680 cuda cores and operates between 2,310 MHz and a couple of,610 MHz. As such, the upcoming card is predicted to supply 29 TFLOPs of most FP32 efficiency, down from the 40 TFLOPs discovered within the RTX 4070 Ti.
The decreased efficiency means the RTX 4070’s energy consumption is predicted to be lower than the Ti model: Its 200W whole board energy (TBP) is 85W decrease than the latest Lovelace entry.
That brings us to the all-important worth. The RTX 4070 Ti launched with a $799 MSRP, although discovering one at that worth level is not straightforward. As we famous in our evaluate of the cardboard, it ought to value not more than $700. Nvidia has taken loads of justifiable criticism for its pricing technique for the Ada Lovelace collection, so will probably be attention-grabbing to see how a lot it has listened, if in any respect, in terms of the RTX 4070. As a reminder, the RTX 3060 Ti launched with a $400 MSRP, whereas the vanilla RTX 3060 value $330.
Following the RTX 4070 might be the RTX 4060. In accordance with purported benchmarks, the latter card can go head-to-head with the RTX 3070 Ti by way of efficiency. The Ampere equal of the RTX 4060 is flying up the Steam survey GPU charts, however Nvidia might want to worth the successor competitively if it needs to repeat that success.
