Nvidia plans to formally introduce its GeForce RTX 4070 on Monday, April, 13, in keeping with {hardware} leaker @hongxing2020 who has a fame of showing correct launch dates of Nvidia’s upcoming {hardware}. Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 4070 is about to be cheaper than the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti and can due to this fact make the corporate’s Ada Lovelace structure extra accessible to players.
Nvidia’s vanilla GeForce RTX 4070 is about to be based mostly on identical AD104 graphics processor because the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti launched earlier this yr. However whereas the latter makes use of a full-fat model of the GPU with all 7680 CUDA cores enabled, the non-Ti GeForce RTX 4070 will reportedly come with a severely lower down processor that includes 5888 CUDA cores and working at 1920 MHz – 2475 MHz, however will nonetheless characteristic a 12GB GDDR6X reminiscence subsystem with a 192-bit interface.
Even with a severely lower down AD104 GPU, the GeForce RTX 4070 ought to characteristic compute efficiency of round 29 FP32 TFLOPS, which is kind of consistent with that of GeForce RTX 3080. In the meantime, the latter has a 320-bit reminiscence bus and boasts with a peak bandwidth of 760 GB/s, which is considerably greater than 504 GB/s supplied by AD104 with 21 GT/s GDDR6X reminiscence.
| Row 0 – Cell 0 | GPU | FP32 CUDA Cores | Reminiscence Configuration | TBP | MSRP |
| GeForce RTX 4090 Ti | AD102 | 18176 (?) | 24GB 384-bit 24 GT/s GDDR6X (?) | 600W (?) | ? |
| GeForce RTX 4090 | AD102 | 16384 | 24GB 384-bit 21 GT/s GDDR6X | 450W | $1,599 |
| GeForce RTX 4080 | AD103 | 9728 | 16GB 256-bit 22.4 GT/s GDDR6X | 320W | $1,199 |
| GeForce RTX 4070 Ti | AD104 | 7680 | 12GB 192-bit 21 GT/s GDDR6X | 285W | $799 |
| GeForce RTX 4070 | AD104 | 5888 (?) | 12GB 192-bit 21 GT/s GDDR6X | 250W (?) | ? |
| GeForce RTX 4060 Ti | AD106 | 4352 (?) | 8GB 128-bit 18 GT/s GDDR6 | 160W (?) | <$500? |
| GeForce RTX 3070 | GA104 | 5888 | 8GB 256-bit 14 GT/s GDDR6 | 220W | $499 |
Whereas a 29 FP32 TFLOPS compute efficiency would make the GeForce RTX 4070 one of many greatest graphics playing cards out there, it stays to be seen the way it performs in opposition to the corporate’s previous-generation GeForce RTX 3080 in workloads the place reminiscence bandwidth issues (e.g., excessive resolutions with antialiasing).
Severely lower down GPU configuration will guarantee excessive availability of certified AD104 GPUs, which can allow Nvidia and its companions to cost the GeForce RTX 4070 half aggressively. Provided that the mannequin RTX 4070 will sit beneath the RTX 4070 Ti that carries a $799 MSRP, it’s assured that the newcomer might be cheaper, however we have no idea how less expensive it will be.
Anyway, since details about the launch date and {hardware} configuration of the GeForce RTX 4070 comes from unofficial sources, take it with a grain of salt.