Monday, April 3rd 2023
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 has an Average Gaming Power Draw of 186 W
The latest leaked slide for GeForce RTX 4070 confirms most of the specifications, as well as reveals some previously unknown details, including the 186 W average power draw. While the specification list does not mention the number of CUDA cores, it does confirm it will be based on AD104 GPU with 36 MB of L2 cache, and come with 12 GB of GDDR6X memory with 504 GB/s of maximum memory bandwidth, which points to 192-bit memory interface and 21 Gbps clocked memory.
The slide posted by Videocardz also compares the upcoming GeForce RTX 4070 with the previous generation RTX 3070 Ti and the RTX 3070, showing a significant increase in shader number, RT cores, and Tensor cores, not to mention we are talking about 3rd gen RT cores and 4th Gen Tensor cores on the RTX 4070. It will also support DLSS 3, and have AV1 and H.264 NV encoders.
The most interesting part of the slide is the power draw comparison, showing a TGP of 200 W, which is is lower than on the RTX 3070 Ti and the RTX 3070. It also draws less power under average gaming, video playback, and in idle. According to NVIDIA's own slide, the GeForce RTX 4070 has an average gaming draw of 186 W, with video playback draw of 16 W, and idle power draw of 10 W. All of these are lower than on the RTX 3070 Ti and the RTX 3070.
The slide also pretty much confirms the previously reported $599 price tag, at least for some of the RTX 4070 graphics cards, as some custom models will definitely be priced significantly higher. So far, it appears that NVIDIA might not change the launch price, and, as reported earlier, the $599 will leave plenty of room for custom RTX 4070 graphics cards without going close to the less expensive RTX 4070 Ti graphics cards, which sell close to $800.
Source:
Videocardz
The slide posted by Videocardz also compares the upcoming GeForce RTX 4070 with the previous generation RTX 3070 Ti and the RTX 3070, showing a significant increase in shader number, RT cores, and Tensor cores, not to mention we are talking about 3rd gen RT cores and 4th Gen Tensor cores on the RTX 4070. It will also support DLSS 3, and have AV1 and H.264 NV encoders.
The slide also pretty much confirms the previously reported $599 price tag, at least for some of the RTX 4070 graphics cards, as some custom models will definitely be priced significantly higher. So far, it appears that NVIDIA might not change the launch price, and, as reported earlier, the $599 will leave plenty of room for custom RTX 4070 graphics cards without going close to the less expensive RTX 4070 Ti graphics cards, which sell close to $800.
56 Comments on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 has an Average Gaming Power Draw of 186 W
I'm still not sure how I feel about this card. While I won't judge it as harshly as the 4070ti being 200 usd cheaper and at least still coming with 12GB of vram I still feel this looks like it should have been a 3060ti successor more than a 3070 replacement.
3080 performance with 20% more vram for 100 usd less just isn't very exciting to me over 2 years later at least when looking at msrp. Still this could have been worse like the 4070ti I guess that is priced like an 80 tier product but loses gas at 4k.
I still think this will do better than the two products above it though and the efficiency will likely be in another class vs ampere.
Vs older generation cards nothing but the 4090 and to a lesser extent 7900XTX look all that impressive but I guess that is subjective and when I say that I'm only comparing them vs their predecessors.
Keep in mind over the last decade I've almost always bought nvidia myself but when amd was at least similar 7970/290X I did grab them
Just looking at my last gpu purchases
2080ti amd didn't offer anything remotely close to it at the time
3080ti the 6900XT was tempting but with it's worse rt performance and it actually costing more at the time it wasn't appealing.
4090 amd back to not really offering anything that's overly competitive.
I'm hoping for the 8000/5000 series that changes.
On a side note i have a hard time even at 4k hitting TBP 450w on my 4090 most games sit around 400-420w some lower and honestly 100 of that is the vram due to it having 24GB of it and that doesn't change regardless of game.
As to the low power consumption, I feel there is nothing surprising given the massive leap from Samsung’s 10nm to TSMC’s 5nm. One being a matured node, while the other is a cutting edge node.
pcpartpicker.com/search/?q=RTX+4070+Ti
RTX 4070 Ti 12GB $799.99
If this was what was coming out for 599 then it might actually be exciting.