Monday, December 5th 2022
January 5 Release Date Predicted for NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti
A January 5, 2023 release date is being mooted by retailers for NVIDIA's upcoming GeForce RTX 4070 Ti graphics card, which is widely expected to be a re-branding of what would have been the RTX 4080 12 GB. Italian retailer Drako started a countdown for an ASUS TUF Gaming RTX 4070 Ti O12G custom-design graphics card, which winds down to January 5, and aligns with the rumored January 3 announcement of the card. It is also expected that reviews of the RTX 4070 Ti will be allowed to go live on January 4.
The GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB was supposed to max out the 4 nm AD104 silicon, featuring 7,680 CUDA cores across 60 SM (streaming multiprocessors), 60 RT cores, 240 Tensor cores, 240 TMUs, and 80 ROPs. The GPU features a 192-bit wide GDDR6X memory interface, to which NVIDIA is giving 21 Gbps-rated memory, yielding 504 GB/s of memory bandwidth. Its most interesting aspect is its power configuration, with a typical board power of 285 W, which makes it technically possible for board partners to use two 8-pin PCIe power connectors, unless they've been asked nicely to implement the 16-pin 12VHPWR connector.
Sources:
Drako.it, Wccftech, VideoCardz
The GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB was supposed to max out the 4 nm AD104 silicon, featuring 7,680 CUDA cores across 60 SM (streaming multiprocessors), 60 RT cores, 240 Tensor cores, 240 TMUs, and 80 ROPs. The GPU features a 192-bit wide GDDR6X memory interface, to which NVIDIA is giving 21 Gbps-rated memory, yielding 504 GB/s of memory bandwidth. Its most interesting aspect is its power configuration, with a typical board power of 285 W, which makes it technically possible for board partners to use two 8-pin PCIe power connectors, unless they've been asked nicely to implement the 16-pin 12VHPWR connector.
59 Comments on January 5 Release Date Predicted for NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti
And right after RTX 4080 launched and we found out RTX 3080 is actually better value card, they were gone...
This actually happened to me. I ended up with a 1060 gddr5x because my brother didn't knew better and bought one. When i knew and told him he sold me theirs and bought a 2000 series card. On a side note it ended up dying and i got full money for it a year later so ended up to be a really nice deal after all :D
Although, you have to keep in mind, the dollar has pretty much reached parity with euro, that's another source for high prices. We used to say "$500 translates to 500€ when you factor in taxes and everything". We can't do that anymore.
Regardless, I don't know how Ampere stock is gone in Europe. It's still widely available here in the UK, which isn't a surprise considering that there hasn't been any massive discount on it. AMD cards go for the price of one tier lower Nvidia ones.
Those that bought on the discounts that existed didn't knew better and were bamboozled
That's why it's strange to me Ampere cards are already dissapearing from stock.
They were meant to coexist with RTX 3080 and lower until early 2023 at least, by Nvidia's own marketing material.
...aaaand I'm off playing Darktide on my 1080, with decent FPS. Urge to buy into the current market is still zero. We're in limbo and I wonder what's gonna give first, but looking at the sentiment, I think Nvidia won't reach their intended target with this strategy regardless of it being a good one for them; that said I do agree they had a rocky launch so far, but not in terms of their market position as it is.
As always... patience. Things will land in a better place eventually.
Already stuffing the popcorn.
:pIf 4070TI will compete well with the 7900XT on raster (which is 900$+ before tax) and it will surly have the RT+DLSS3 advantage so no reason on earth to price it lower than that.
Idiotic will be to choose 7900XT over 4070TI at the same cost in order to retaliate in some sort against NV, considering you can have use for RT.
Any other price is just callous rip off.
NVIDIA 4nm AD104 "Ada" Silicon Pictured, Half the Die-area of AD102
videocardz.com/newz/colorful-confirms-geforce-rtx-4070-ti-graphics-card-same-specs-as-4080-12gb
wccftech.com/nvidia-pascal-gpu-cryptocurrency-ethereum-mining/
and then
www.pcgamer.com/crypto-mining-crash-leaves-nvidia-with-excess-inventory-of-pascal-cards/
With Ampere they just simply didn't even bother making a mining specific card, but rather they started making gamer specific cards (LHR) when the backlash and rumor mill of other sales channels started to become tangible.
Come on. Nvidia has always deployed some tactic to delay their time to market to just the right time, for each part of their stack. The strategy is profit maximization, that and that alone determines what gets launched when. The 4nm and limited run story fits right in, too. They don't stand to gain anything from cannibalizing their own stock.
As far as the 4080's go though, yeah, that I don't think they expected, because the 4070ti is probably just as tainted right now because of it, which leaves them in a crappy position. If they delay 4070ti further by limited stock or otherwise, they might miss their sales entirely on that one as people can simply buy an equally performant Ampere alternative or something in the AMD stable.