RTX 4070 Rumored to Launch April 13th

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Nvidia plans to formally introduce its GeForce RTX 4070 on Monday, April, 13, according to hardware leaker @hongxing2020 who has a reputation of revealing accurate launch dates of Nvidia's upcoming hardware. Nvidia's GeForce RTX 4070 is set to be cheaper than the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti and will therefore make the company's Ada Lovelace architecture more accessible to gamers. 

Nvidia's vanilla GeForce RTX 4070 is set to be based on same AD104 graphics processor as the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti launched earlier this year. But while the latter uses a full-fat version of the GPU with all 7680 CUDA cores enabled, the non-Ti GeForce RTX 4070 will reportedly come with a severely cut down processor featuring 5888 CUDA cores and operating at 1920 MHz – 2475 MHz, but will still feature a 12GB GDDR6X memory subsystem with a 192-bit interface.  

Even with a severely cut down AD104 GPU, the GeForce RTX 4070 should feature compute performance of around 29 FP32 TFLOPS, which is more or less in line with that of GeForce RTX 3080. Meanwhile, the latter has a 320-bit memory bus and boasts with a peak bandwidth of 760 GB/s, which is significantly higher than 504 GB/s offered by AD104 with 21 GT/s GDDR6X memory. 

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Nvidia RTX 40-Series Specifications
Row 0 - Cell 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 GDDR6X250W (?)?
GeForce RTX 4060 TiAD1064352 (?)8GB 128-bit 18 GT/s GDDR6160W (?)<$500?
GeForce RTX 3070GA10458888GB 256-bit 14 GT/s GDDR6220W$499

While a 29 FP32 TFLOPS compute performance would make the GeForce RTX 4070 one of the best graphics cards available, it remains to be seen how it performs against the company's previous-generation GeForce RTX 3080 in workloads where memory bandwidth matters (e.g., high resolutions with antialiasing). 

Severely cut down GPU configuration will ensure high availability of qualified AD104 GPUs, which will enable Nvidia and its partners to price the GeForce RTX 4070 part aggressively. Given that the model RTX 4070 will sit below the RTX 4070 Ti that carries a $799 MSRP, it is guaranteed that the newcomer will be cheaper, but we do not know how much cheaper it is going to be. 

Anyway, since information about the launch date and hardware configuration of the GeForce RTX 4070 comes from unofficial sources, take it with a grain of salt.

 

Anton Shilov
Anton Shilov
Freelance News Writer

Anton Shilov is a Freelance News Writer at Tom’s Hardware US. 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.

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29 Comments Comment from the forums
  • thisisaname
    Wonder how over priced they are going to be?
    They can get away with it due to AMD not pushing them on price.
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  • LolaGT
    $799 MSRP.
    I'm sure that number is a fairytale.

    But it already isn't worth near the MSRP. It is a $500 card, maybe.

    The suckers can't wait to give nvidia more money though.
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  • KyaraM
    LolaGT said:
    $799 MSRP.
    I'm sure that number is a fairytale.

    But it already isn't worth near the MSRP. It is a $500 card, maybe.

    The suckers can't wait to give nvidia more money though.
    AMD isn't really pricing differently, though. So there is absolutely no incentive to lower prices, except people aren't buying. Complaining obviously doesn't work, so if you don't like it, don't get it.
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  • USAFRet
    Vote with your wallet.
    Don't buy it, either AMD or Nvidia, until it is at a price you are comfortable with.
    Reply
  • ManDaddio
    It's funny how people blame Nvidia for high prices but don't criticize AMD for their now high prices.

    If everything is high then it's Nvidia's fault. Ummm,ok.

    Well, Nvidia has more stuff crammed in their gpus. What's AMD excuse when I keep hearing Nvidia critics saying they (AMD)pay less to manufacturer their gpus as compared to Nvidia?

    We do truly live in a time of insane thinking.

    I imagine the prices will scale as expected. Therefore, why the surprise or even anger?

    RTX 4090 $1600
    RTX 4080 $1200
    RTX 4070ti $799
    RTX 4070 $599-$699
    RTX 4060ti $499-$599
    RTX 4060 $299-$399
    RTX 4050 $199-$299 (based on bus size)

    What is the surprise here?
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  • KyaraM
    ManDaddio said:
    It's funny how people blame Nvidia for high prices but don't criticize AMD for their now high prices.

    If everything is high then it's Nvidia's fault. Ummm,ok.

    Well, Nvidia has more stuff crammed in their gpus. What's AMD excuse when I keep hearing Nvidia critics saying they (AMD)pay less to manufacturer their gpus as compared to Nvidia?

    We do truly live in a time of insane thinking.

    I imagine the prices will scale as expected. Therefore, why the surprise or even anger?

    RTX 4090 $1600
    RTX 4080 $1200
    RTX 4070ti $799
    RTX 4070 $599-$699
    RTX 4060ti $499-$599
    RTX 4060 $299-$399
    RTX 4050 $199-$299 (based on bus size)

    What is the surprise here?
    There isn't exactly surprise rather than people finding the prices too steep. Which I can understand to an extend, but like you, I'm baffled as to why AMD isn't getting scolded as well. Well, actually, I'm not baffled. It's the same as always, also see how Nvidia is getting ridiculed for the connector thing (user error, especially considering that GN also made native 16-pin cables burn, not just the adapters) while AMD's vapor chamber is getting off Scott free (very big design flaw). One issue can be easily avoided by paying attention, the other not so much. But the one that can be avoided is the worse one because... reasons.

    Meanwhile, we have to thank AMD for FSR and Freesync according to certain people, but not Nvidia for popularizing the technology in the form of G-Sync and DLSS in the first place. AMD are the innovators, and Intel and Nvidia don't develop anything new. It truly is crazy.
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  • Ar558
    I'm guessing $699, no way it's less than $649. Nvidia have put a stake in the ground with the higher cards that they are raising the costs of GPUs across the board so I can't see them making it any cheaper plus if it was lower than $649 it will cannibalise 4070ti sales.
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  • Giroro
    USAFRet said:
    Vote with your wallet.
    Don't buy it, either AMD or Nvidia, until it is at a price you are comfortable with.
    The prices are so astronomical, I don't think the "don't buy it" economics really apply this time around.
    They could lose a third of all sales, and they'll still be making more money than ever before.

    Making more revenue and profit without having to manage the logistics of dealing with all those pesky products? I bet Nvidia is thrilled with the current loss of sales and trying to get even better at making more money by selling less product.
    Jensen is probably out there buried in excel graphs, trying to figure out if he can keep at least 11% of the sales volume when he makes all their cards 10x more expensive. Monopoly 101 says, "Yes. Yes he can."

    They would much rather box and sell 1 GPU at $10,000 instead of 99 GPUs at $100.
    Nvidia doesn't want the gaming mass market. They don't care anymore.
    They think they're John Deere, not uh, some fictional competitor to John Deere who would hypothetically want to sell affordable tractors to a mass market.

    Gaming GPUs got too powerful, so Nvidia realized they have to kill them off to prevent cannibalization of their near-identical (but far more overpriced) professional cards.
    Some number of (non-gamer) people have no choice but to use a GPU. Nvidia will find that number, and stack their products to best exploit them. It feels like Nvidia is trying to bring us back to the early 90's, where most GPUs were only accessible to the kind of people who have a business necessity to buy $50,000 professional workstations.

    Nvidia will do less work, and makes more money. The only losers are the gamers, and I guess the advertiser/influncers who are going to eventually have to find some other culture to create, corner, and exploit.
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  • Giroro
    ManDaddio said:
    It's funny how people blame Nvidia for high prices but don't criticize AMD for their now high prices.

    If everything is high then it's Nvidia's fault. Ummm,ok.

    Well, Nvidia has more stuff crammed in their gpus. What's AMD excuse when I keep hearing Nvidia critics saying they (AMD)pay less to manufacturer their gpus as compared to Nvidia?

    We do truly live in a time of insane thinking.

    I imagine the prices will scale as expected. Therefore, why the surprise or even anger?

    RTX 4090 $1600
    RTX 4080 $1200
    RTX 4070ti $799
    RTX 4070 $599-$699
    RTX 4060ti $499-$599
    RTX 4060 $299-$399
    RTX 4050 $199-$299 (based on bus size)

    What is the surprise here?
    AMD announces their products/prices after Nvidia for a reason, you know.
    They are a follower.

    Also, if you go through Nvidia's rumored/leaked/traditional product stack there is very little chance that an RTX 4050 (or any gpu) at or below $300 exists from them this generation. At least not this year, as they would have had to start a new mega-low-end die design from scratch.
    There's no silicon design in their lineup to fill that slot. Their "would-be" 4050 spec die got bumped up the stack when they made the late decision to sell a 4060 spec card as the "RTX 4080 12GB".
    It will take them some time and investment to go back to the drawing board and make a newer lowerer end design to replace their low end, but they have absolutely no motivation to put in that work.

    Or another way to say that is an RTX 4050 used to exist, until they realized they can make more money by calling it an RTX 4070. But now that design is probably going to be called an RTX 4060 Ti. Either way, it's still going to cost $700, with its fictional MSRP set at $600.
    Maybe you'll be able to get an RTX 3060 for near $300 in a year, but Nvidia is more likely to cancel production of that design rather than let it fall back down to it's $330 MSRP.
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  • KyaraM
    Giroro said:
    AMD announces their products/prices after Nvidia for a reason, you know.
    They are a follower.

    Also, if you go through Nvidia's rumored/leaked/traditional product stack there is very little chance that an RTX 4050 (or any gpu) at or below $300 exists from them this generation. At least not this year, as they would have had to start a new mega-low-end die design from scratch.
    There's no silicon design in their lineup to fill that slot. Their "would-be" 4050 spec die got bumped up the stack when they made the late decision to sell a 4060 spec card as the "RTX 4080 12GB".
    It will take them some time and investment to go back to the drawing board and make a newer lowerer end design to replace their low end, but they have absolutely no motivation to put in that work.

    Or another way to say that is an RTX 4050 used to exist, until they realized they can make more money by calling it an RTX 4070. But now that design is probably going to be called an RTX 4060 Ti. Either way, it's still going to cost $700, with its fictional MSRP set at $600.
    Maybe you'll be able to get an RTX 3060 for near $300 in a year, but Nvidia is more likely to cancel production of that design rather than let it fall back down to it's $330 MSRP.
    If they announce pricing after Nvidia and still overprice their cards, then they are even greedier and, frankly, dumber. They could get a lot more revenue by selling more but cheaper than they could by price-matching while offering less features.

    And for the rest, bullocks. What is that based on, die size? The performance metrics set the card right where it is in the stack. 3090Ti was 43% faster in 4K than the 3070Ti according to Tom's test, and the 4090 is 34% faster than the 4070Ti, leaving some room for the 4090Ti or Titan or however it will be called to get the difference back to 43%.

    In 1440p, the 4090 is 24.6% faster than the 4070Ti while the 3090Ti was 30.4% faster than the 3070Ti.

    Or in other words, in terms of performance, the card is exactly where you would expect a 4070Ti. Btw, there already is a 4050 mobile card. So a 4050 for desktop isn't exactly a wild pipe dream or anything.

    EDIT: Numbers for the card comparison based on this test by Tom's Hardware:
    https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/nvidia-geforce-rtx-4070-ti-review-a-costly-70-class-gpu/4
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