Gigabyte App Allegedly Confirms Nvidia RTX 4070 and RTX 4060 Memory Configs

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Founders Edition
(Image credit: Nvidia)

Gigabyte has seemingly revealed the memory configurations for Nvidia's upcoming GeForce RTX 4060 and GeForce RTX 4070 graphics cards via its Gigabyte Control Center software. There aren't any surprises, as the Ada Lovelace-based add-in-boards will carry 8GB and 12GB of memory, respectively, according to VideoCardz.

Version 23.03.02.01 Gigabyte's Control Center app adds support for the Gigabyte RTX 4070 Aero OC 12GB (GV-N4070AERO OC-12G) and the Gigabyte RTX 4060 Gaming OC 8GB (GV-N4060GAMING OC-8GD) products, revealing their memory capacities. The memory type (GDDR6X or GDDR6) isn't confirmed yet, though rumors pin the 4070 with GDDR6X and the 4060 with regular GDDR6.

We were already pretty sure that Nvidia's GeForce RTX 4070 would have the same 192-bit 12GB GDDR6X memory subsystem as the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti, since the two products are based on the same AD104 GPU. The key difference seems to be using fewer active CUDA cores on the 4070. Will the GeForce RTX 4070 end up in our list of the best graphics cards? We'll have to wait and see. Here are the tentative specs.

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Nvidia RTX 40-Series Specifications
Header Cell - Column 0 GPUFP32 CUDA CoresMemory ConfigurationTBPMSRP
GeForce RTX 4090 TiAD10218176 (?)24GB 384-bit 24 GT/s GDDR6X (?)600W (?)?
GeForce RTX 4090AD1021638424GB 384-bit 21 GT/s GDDR6X450W$1,599
GeForce RTX 4080AD103972816GB 256-bit 22.4 GT/s GDDR6X320W$1,199
GeForce RTX 4070 TiAD104768012GB 192-bit 21 GT/s GDDR6X285W$799
GeForce RTX 4070AD1045888 (?)12GB 192-bit 21 GT/s GDDR6X (?)250W (?)<$650?
GeForce RTX 4060 TiAD1064352 (?)8GB 128-bit 18 GT/s GDDR6 (?)160W (?)<$500?
GeForce RTX 3070GA10458888GB 256-bit 14 GT/s GDDR6220W$499

In many ways, 8GB of GDDR6 memory on Nvidia's GeForce RTX 4060 can be considered as a downgrade from the GeForce RTX 3060, which carries 12GB of GDDR6 memory. Nvidia's AD107 and AD106 graphics processors that power the company's GeForce RTX 4060 and RTX 4060 Ti products only feature a 128-bit memory interface (according to unofficial information), so it would only be possible to use these these GPUs with 8GB or 16GB of memory — and the latter option may not be exactly feasible for cost reasons, as it would require using memory on both sides of the PCB in "clamshell" mode (similar to the RTX 3090).

Nvidia is expected to launch its GeForce RTX 4070 with 12GB of memory on April 13, 2023. The product will be positioned below the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti that has been on the market for a couple of months now, but it is unclear how much Nvidia plans to charge for its vanilla GeForce RTX 4070. Given the specs, performance will be quite a bit lower than the 4070 Ti, suggesting the price would need to be under $650 to make much sense, and even that would likely be too high.

Plans for the RTX 4060 and 4060 Ti are even less clear. Last week we saw images of an alleged GeForce RTX 4060 Founders Edition board, which may be considered as a confirmation that Nvidia is working on this product. Yet, it remains to be seen when the GeForce RTX 4060 will hit the shelves and at what price. With the outgoing 3060 and 3060 Ti sitting at $329 and $399, respectively, we imagine $499 would be about the highest price most potential buyers would be willing to consider.

Anton Shilov
Contributing Writer

Anton Shilov is a contributing writer at Tom’s Hardware. Over the past couple of decades, he has covered everything from CPUs and GPUs to supercomputers and from modern process technologies and latest fab tools to high-tech industry trends.

  • DookieDraws
    I MIGHT would buy the 4070 for $450. I'm sure it'll be way overpriced, though.
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  • horsemama
    DookieDraws said:
    I MIGHT would buy the 4070 for $450. I'm sure it'll be way overpriced, though.
    Rumors are $700+..
    Reply
  • atomicWAR
    horsemama said:
    Rumors are $700+..
    MLID dropped the 749.99 rumor so I'd take that with a truck load of salt. He throws everything he can at the wall hoping something sticks though I do enjoy his vids on occasion...
    Reply
  • InvalidError
    We have 3GB DRAM chips, 3GB GDDR6/6X/7 cannot be very far behind. We may very well start seeing 12GB on 128bits or 9GB on 96bits next year or possibly sooner.
    Reply
  • Giroro
    So, how many more GPU generations until Nvidia execs get off their yachts and private islands long enough to finally figure out that the crypto fad is over, and GPU mining is dead?

    Is it 3 generations? I bet it's 3 generations.
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  • InvalidError
    Giroro said:
    So, how many more GPU generations until Nvidia execs get off their yachts and private islands long enough to finally figure out that the crypto fad is over, and GPU mining is dead?
    From which generation are we counting from and until what generation are we counting to?
    The entire industry got borked by crypto and covid during the 3k series.
    The 4k series got borked from being designed and priced based on expectations that crypto would go on.
    The 5k series will likely get borked by its goals likely set on many of the same assumptions that borked the 4k series and could be too far along development to correct.
    The 6k series should be the one where Nvidia will be forced to admit its unrealistic expectations have crashed and burned, though it may still try its hands at inflated prices for the performance it delivers one more time, albeit not as brazenly.
    So the 7k series is where I would expect Nvidia to have mostly cleansed itself of covid-crypto greedflation and return to more normal greed.

    If we count inclusively from the moment greedflation set in to the moment it is mostly gone, that would be five generations (3k through 7k) for me.
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  • doughillman
    atomicWAR said:
    MLID dropped the 749.99 rumor so I'd take that with a truck load of salt. He throws everything he can at the wall hoping something sticks though I do enjoy his vids on occasion...

    I quit watching his junk a long time ago. He spends way too much time crowing about the very few things he gets correct and never again mentioning the preponderance of stuff that he's whiffed on. As you say, he just throws everything he can out there. Even a blind squirrel finds a nut now and then.

    Just make up your own rumors in your head. You'll likely be right about as often as he is.
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  • atomicWAR
    doughillman said:
    I quit watching his junk a long time ago. He spends way too much time crowing about the very few things he gets correct and never again mentioning the preponderance of stuff that he's whiffed on. As you say, he just throws everything he can out there. Even a blind squirrel finds a nut now and then.

    Just make up your own rumors in your head. You'll likely be right about as often as he is.
    I only watch now to see how laughably wrong he is and so I know when an outlet picks up his junk....
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  • razor512
    8GB VRAM is simply not enough, the 4060 would be a horrible purchase, especially as more games come out being first developed for consoles such as the PS5. 8GB VRAM means that games will have to be run at lower settings than necessary for the GPU to avoid having system memory get used as VRAM.
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  • Giroro
    InvalidError said:
    From which generation are we counting from and until what generation are we counting to?
    The entire industry got borked by crypto and covid during the 3k series.
    The 4k series got borked from being designed and priced based on expectations that crypto would go on.
    The 5k series will likely get borked by its goals likely set on many of the same assumptions that borked the 4k series and could be too far along development to correct.
    The 6k series should be the one where Nvidia will be forced to admit its unrealistic expectations have crashed and burned, though it may still try its hands at inflated prices for the performance it delivers one more time, albeit not as brazenly.
    So the 7k series is where I would expect Nvidia to have mostly cleansed itself of covid-crypto greedflation and return to more normal greed.

    If we count inclusively from the moment greedflation set in to the moment it is mostly gone, that would be five generations (3k through 7k) for me.
    I would start at 4k and not include off-year "super" refreshes. So 4k is borked, 4k super is super borked, 5k Nvidia doubles down on the 4k strategy which probably is where things fail particularly noticeably (They'll do something outrageous like push $800+ for an RTX 5060 or prevent 3rd parties from making high-end cards). 5k super Nvidia sticks to 5k pricing but the company, or at least investors react to multiple quarters of missed revenue targets. Intel will finally get their act together, or maybe PlayStation 6/ Xbox Series S IV will be making waves. By RTX 6k They might finally at least test the waters by offering some kind of mainstream-priced card. Maybe this will be when they get around to making some kind of GTX 1750, or equivalent. More likely they'll crap out a highly nerfed/feature-stripped RT 6060 for ~$400 (their lowest priced card in 3+ years) and call it a day. RTX 6k Super we may feel some real effort to win back mainstream and midrange gamers.

    So, I'm calling that as 5-6 years, and 3 generations until they take any action to acknowledge that the overwhelming majority of gamers are not tech-influencer millionaires.

    Or, Nvidia will just continue to not care about gamers and go-all in on big data, workstations, "content creation", and prosumer AI.
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