Wednesday, March 15th 2023
Reference NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Rumored to Launch at $749
According to the latest rumor coming from Moore's Law is Dead, the upcoming NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 could have a higher MSRP than expected, and could launch at $749. Yesterday, another rumor pointed out that NVIDIA is splitting the reviews for the GeForce RTX 4070 on two dates, with reference models that are sticking to MSRP going out on April 12th, and custom, higher-priced versions, a day later, on April 13th. The same date, April 13th, is when the GeForce RTX 4070 should hit retail shelves.
According to Moore's Law is Dead, the MSRP for reference versions will be set at $749.99, which is a bit more than earlier expected, and just $50 less than the launch MSRP for the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti. The custom versions, or "premium" as some now called them, could start at $799.99.
The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 is also based on the AD104 GPU, as the RTX 4070 Ti, but has 46 streaming multiprocessors (SMs), leaving it with 5,888 CUDA cores enabled. On the other hand, it is rumored to come with the same memory configuration as the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti, featuring 12 GB of 21 Gbps GDDR6X memory on a 192-bit memory interface. The TGP is set at 200 W.
The performance is expected to land somewhere between the RTX 3080 Ti and the RTX 3080, or pretty much in line with the RX 6900 XT. Of course, a 50% bump in the launch price compared to the predecessor, the RTX 3070, leaves a rather sour taste.
Sources:
Moore's Law is Dead (Youtube), via Wccftech
According to Moore's Law is Dead, the MSRP for reference versions will be set at $749.99, which is a bit more than earlier expected, and just $50 less than the launch MSRP for the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti. The custom versions, or "premium" as some now called them, could start at $799.99.
The performance is expected to land somewhere between the RTX 3080 Ti and the RTX 3080, or pretty much in line with the RX 6900 XT. Of course, a 50% bump in the launch price compared to the predecessor, the RTX 3070, leaves a rather sour taste.
191 Comments on Reference NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Rumored to Launch at $749
We have been through two consecutive cycles, one in 2018, latest in 2021 - 2022 when Nvidia profited much more than gamers ever could pay.
Crypto crash in 2018 resulted in slow sales of RTX 2080, but Nvidia didn't react and maintained high prices and low sales throughout the life cycle of Turing cards. And just when they improved price / performance with Ampere launch, another crypto boom arrived and cut the gamers from the products intended for them.
So history can teach us a lot here. Primarily that gaming isn't the focus of Gaming sector of Nvidia for quite some time any more.
And right now, just as we gamers rejoiced at seemingly total crash of cryptomining for a long time, we're hearing that AI computing is the new boom that will require tens of thousands of GPUs - and that gaming GPUs are just as suitable as more expensive dedicated ones.
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This sounds like a complete failure from Nvidia at that price point. No one is running out to snap up 4070Ti, 4080 and even the 4090s anymore. There are so many sitting on the shelves at my MicroCenter.
Why anyone puts up with Nvidias shenanigans the past few years is beyond me. Sadly we’re probably in for another generation of being bent over bare minimum.
sony and microsoft needs to improve frame rate, keyboard and mouse support, some discord like thing, and they can really be seating in a gold mine here.
As long as the games are only console ports, no one will need these cards for a while! Furthermore, the second-hand market has enough cards for who really needs one.
Given how far it's been cut down from the $850 4070Ti is is, it's not really going to be appealing at anything more than about $650 and even that's an insult over the 3070's launch price of $499.
Maybe I'm wrong, maybe the 5888 cores leaked spec is bogus. Either way, the reduced bandwidth from a drop to a 192-bit bus is only partially made up by the change to GDDR6X. The end result is about the same bandwidth, but at a higher latency, and higher power draw. That's a downgrade IMO - so realistically all the 4070 is bringing to the table is the same 5888 cores of the 3070 at 30% higher clocks, plus whatever arbitrary restrictions nvidia insist on claiming about DLSS 3.0 and 30-series.
THE MORE YOU PAY THE MORE YOU SAVE.
Oh my, Nvidia fans will have a really tough job justifying this price.
Wait....wait wait wait. What am I saying? It's easy. IT's AMD's FAULT!!!!
Easy...
PS Nvidia is using the same tacktic as with 4080 and 4090. It puts a really bad deal under an already overpriced product to make it look like a great deal.
4080, 4090 and now 4070, 4070 Ti.
I guess 4060 Ti will be expensive, but OK and 4060 expensive and terrible deal.
Well, one of the problems. The other problems will almost certainly include price and cut-down memory bus, to name a couple.