Sunday, February 19th 2023
NVIDIA Readying 10GB, 12GB, and 16GB Variants of RTX 4070? GIGABYTE Thinks So
NVIDIA is possibly readying three memory-based variants of the upcoming GeForce RTX 4070 "Ada" performance-segment graphics card, suggests a GIGABYTE leak. The company put up a game bundle information page on its website, which inadvertently leaked the three RTX 4070 variants in its "eligibility" section; so this is slightly more credible than a case of GIGABYTE anticipating NVIDIA SKUs with the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC) in its regulatory filings. The leak mentions three distinct SKUs—RTX 4070 10 GB, RTX 4070 12 GB, and RTX 4070 16 GB. The predecessors of the RTX 4070 tended to be NVIDIA's bestselling graphics cards each generation, next to the xx60 series.
The billion-dollar question hence would be exactly how NVIDIA segments the three SKUs—whether it stops at just memory size and memory bus width; or whether it will also tinker with core-configuration, and possibly even base one of the three SKUs on a physically smaller silicon, such as the AD106. The "RTX 4070" rumored to be a single SKU until now, was expected to be carved out of the AD104, with 5,888 out of 7,680 CUDA cores being enabled. NVIDIA faced stiff criticism from the media and gamers for such segmentation for its RTX 4080 16 GB and RTX 4080 12 GB, with the company being forced to cancel the market-release of the latter, and relaunch it under the name RTX 4070 Ti.
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The billion-dollar question hence would be exactly how NVIDIA segments the three SKUs—whether it stops at just memory size and memory bus width; or whether it will also tinker with core-configuration, and possibly even base one of the three SKUs on a physically smaller silicon, such as the AD106. The "RTX 4070" rumored to be a single SKU until now, was expected to be carved out of the AD104, with 5,888 out of 7,680 CUDA cores being enabled. NVIDIA faced stiff criticism from the media and gamers for such segmentation for its RTX 4080 16 GB and RTX 4080 12 GB, with the company being forced to cancel the market-release of the latter, and relaunch it under the name RTX 4070 Ti.
16 Comments on NVIDIA Readying 10GB, 12GB, and 16GB Variants of RTX 4070? GIGABYTE Thinks So
Greed is good, boys and girls.
If Nvidia respected their customers would they released 8GB 3060s later on and still charge the same price while they know people will go in and buy them without comprehending why GPU memory is at a premium and expect the same level of performance?
Nvidia is outright a crony anti-capitalist corporation that needs to be seriously taken down a few notches like Intel. Here is a very good video about why no one with a working brain should ever give them their money:
You like more VRAM? You get more VRAM! What a joke. But, the 12 and 16GB 4080 was writing on the wall.And here I am looking at a 1080 with 350GB/s on half the VRAM.
But this is fine. :rolleyes: It means I'm not going to upgrade to a card like this, life just got a bit simpler.
It's basically the logical extension of the 1060 3G and 1060 6G...where even with two clear SKUs people were quite perplexed as to why one was so much more expensive...until they understood the value of double to RAM when VRAM even at 1080 resolution can be rather taxed at the lower quantity.
Joking aside though, both AMD and Nvidia are not releasing good cards right now. The next generation will have to be better on pricing to make it reasonable for people to want a new card unless they're leaving 1080 land...and right now it's really hard recommending a GPU which costs as much as an entire console...
www.tomshardware.com/news/gigabyte-registers-geforce-rtx-3070-ti-16gb-gpu
New products from Nvidia are at your service.