Alleged Nvidia RTX 4070 specs suggest it could match the RTX 3090 Ti

[midian182]

Rumor mill: It's a case of another day, another RTX 4000 rumor. Assuming it turns out to be accurate, the latest claim from a regular leaker is excellent news for those with one eye on the RTX 4070, a supposedly mid-range card that could potentially take on the RTX 3090 Ti.

It was only earlier this week when prolific leaker Kopite7kimi claimed the upcoming RTX 4070 Ti with its full-fat AD104 GPU could "easily" match the RTX 3090 Ti. Now, Kopite has updated the specifications of the non-Ti version of the card, and it seems the RTX 4070 has replaced the RTX 4070 Ti, specs-wise, with the only difference being a much lower TDP.

There is an update of RTX 4070.
PG141-SKU331
7680FP32
12G 21Gbps GDDR6X
300W
TSE >11000

— kopite7kimi (@kopite7kimi) August 4, 2022

The RTX 4070 is said to use the PG141-SKU331 that was previously thought to be in the RTX 4070 Ti. It also packs 7,680 CUDA cores or 60 Streaming Multiprocessors (SMs), 30 billion transistors, and up to 160 ROPs. There's 48 MB of L2 cache, and 12GB of GDDR6X memory at 21 Gbps on a 192-bit bus, giving it a maximum 504 GB/s bandwidth.

But a critical difference between the RTX 4070's new specs and the previous ones for the RTX 4070 Ti is the TDP. As with other Lovelace leaks, Kopite believes the Ti card will carry a fairly hefty TDP—400W, which isn't far from the RTX 3090 Ti's 450W TDP. The RTX 4070, however, is a 100W lower at 300W, which could relate to custom designs rather than Founders Editions. That's pretty much the same as the RTX 3070 Ti that Nvidia says has a 290W TDP.

The new rumored specs are a big improvement over the previously RTX 4070 claims. Those had the card featuring the PG141-SKU341 with 10GB of VRAM@18Gbps and a 160-bit memory bus for 360GB/s bandwidth.

Another exciting part of the tweet is Kopite's alleged Time Spy Extreme score. They claim the RTX 4070 can now achieve more than 11,000, up from the previous 10,000, putting it close to a RTX 3090 Ti (Founders Edition) score.

Like all rumors, take this one with plenty of salt. It also leaves the question of what Nvidia has planned for the RTX 4070 Ti—a cut-down version of the AD103 found in the RTX 4080 is one possibility.

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[George Keech]

I feel like this story (or similar) has been run 3 times this week

 

[paul1122]

Seeing we're not going to buy slower cards, it would kind of follow that it would have to be much faster every generation. Given the cost involved.
I don't know if this is actually news, or even anything to report on. A RTX4090 being slower than a RTX3070 would be newsworthy.

 

[Diabolik707]

Perhaps, but at what price?

 

[human7]

Does anybody go back and verify which rumors turned out to be true? I feel like there should be a credibility analysis attached to all of these rumor mill articles.

 

[passwordistaco]

These leaks are just market research in the social media age.

 

[MaestroIT]

These leaks are just market research in the social media age.

these leaks are bad for Nvidia, as people will not buy current products waiting for next gen faster ones.

I am really looking for a new GPU for my gaming PC, and the current choice is 3080 Ti, but if next gen that will launch in few months is better, why get now a $1000 card?

 

[waclark]

Perhaps, but at what price?

Exactly, that is the "million dollar" question. Will the 3090 drop in price when the 4x series is revealed? What's the availability as well? Lots of question and few answers at this point in time.

 

[Hodor]

In power consumption?

 

[Roddy_K]

I woke up this morning to a EVGA weekend sale and to top headline was a rtx 3090Ti for $1149. That's a thousand dollars off. I really wonder what the availability of the 40 series will be and are we going to see a Newegg shuffle again with hardware we don't need.

 

[mbk34]

I feel like this story (or similar) has been run 3 times this week

It's not exactly the same as the author has removed the word "easily" from the title of the article that he wrote just 2 days before this one.

 

[kmo911]

So cyberlink 2077 will run better on new rtx 4xxx series. thats exspected. future sx 12_2 3 4 and later dx13 will then be to heavy for 1-5 gtx rtx then we need more power 1200 w and maybe 18 connectors. wow 2 would be playable in122k more less.
https://omggamer.com/directx-13-release-date-leaks-rumors/ if it gets out wit windows 12 and mac linuix unbutu ans so on.

 

[ron baer]

Perhaps, but at what price?

for the low low price of 1100 US dollars