Famend {hardware} leaker @kopite7kimi has leaked the preliminary specs of Nvidia’s upcoming GeForce RTX 4070 (non-Ti) graphics card. In accordance with the leak, Workforce Inexperienced determined to make use of a severely cut-down AD104 GPU for the product, although it stays to be seen how briskly will probably be in precise video games and the way it will rank on our checklist of the greatest graphics playing cards.
As anticipated, similar to the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti, the vanilla GeForce RTX 4070 might be primarily based on the AD104 graphics processor. Nevertheless, Nvidia harshly minimize right down to 5888 CUDA cores, or by 23% when in comparison with the full-fat AD104. In the meantime, Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 4070 board will carry 12GB of GDDR6X reminiscence related to the GPU utilizing a 192-bit interface, which is similar reminiscence configuration on the GeForce RTX 4070. As for energy consumption, the RTX 4070 might be rated for 250W of complete board energy, down from 285W with the RTX 4070 Ti.
Nvidia GeForce RTX 40-Collection Specs
| Row 0 – Cell 0 | GPU | FP32 CUDA Cores | Reminiscence Configuration | TBP |
| GeForce RTX 4090 | AD102 | 16384 | 24GB 384-bit 21 GT/s GDDR6X | 450W |
| GeForce RTX 4080 | AD103 | 9728 | 16GB 256-bit 22.4 GT/s GDDR6X | 320W |
| GeForce RTX 4070 Ti | AD104 | 7680 | 12GB 192-bit 21 GT/s GDDR6X | 285W |
| GeForce RTX 4070 | AD104 | 5888 | 12GB 192-bit 21 GT/s GDDR6X | 250W |
With AD104 GPU configuration minimize down by virtually 1 / 4, the GeForce RTX 4070 is destined to be considerably slower than the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti. After all, Nvidia can improve GPU frequency to make up for the ‘misplaced’ CUDA cores and maybe that is the case on condition that energy consumption of the GeForce RTX 4070 is simply 35W decrease in comparison with its greater brother, however we’re speculating right here.
Decreasing the variety of lively CUDA cores so considerably ensures that Nvidia could have loads of AD104 graphics processors which can be ok to energy GeForce RTX 4070 graphics boards with out doing in depth (and costly) binning. Moreover, for the reason that GeForce RTX 4070 will reportedly have the identical reminiscence configuration because the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti, makers of graphics playing cards will be capable of use the identical printed circuit boards for each merchandise, which is environment friendly from manufacturing perspective.
Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 4080 and RTX 4090 are the perfect graphics playing cards cash can purchase at present, however at $1199 and $1599, they’re approach too costly for many individuals. The truth is, even the upcoming GeForce RTX 4070 Ti — which appears to be fairly highly effective — is just not precisely going to be low-cost at $899 (presumably). This value formation bears the query how a lot Nvidia will cost for different Ada Lovelace merchandise and what’s going to they provide. Whereas we do not know how a lot Nvidia’s vanilla GeForce RTX 4070 will price, it seems like will probably be minimize down fairly severely in comparison with the Ti mannequin. Which brings in one other query: is it value shopping for? Time (or moderately check outcomes) will inform!
Needless to say we’re coping with preliminary data coming from unofficial supply, so take it with a grain of salt.