Wednesday, September 11th 2024
GeForce RTX 4070 with Slower GDDR6 Memory Priced on-par with Regular RTX 4070 Cards
NVIDIA GeForce board partners are preparing a silent launch of a variant of the GeForce RTX 4070 with slower 20 Gbps GDDR6 memory in place of the 21 Gbps GDDR6X that's standard to the RTX 4070, which results in a 5% reduction in memory bandwidth. It turns out that other specs, such as GPU clocks or core-configuration aren't changed to compensate for the reduced memory bandwidth. ASUS is among the first board partners with an RTX 4060 GDDR6 card, the ASUS DUAL RTX 4070 GDDR6, which was briefly listed on Newegg for $569, before it went out of stock. This is reported by VideoCardz as being the same price as the regular ASUS DUAL RTX 4070 with GDDR6X.
ASUS isn't the only NVIDIA board partner with an RTX 4070 GDDR6, Wccftech spotted a GALAX branded card that comes with the model string "RTX 4070 D6 1-click OC." Its retail box features a large specs-sheet on the front face that clearly mentions GDDR6 as the memory type. NVIDIA's move to re-spec the RTX 4070 with 20 Gbps GDDR6 was originally seen as a move to reduce its costs, letting the card be sold closer to the $500-mark. It remains to be seen if real-world prices settle down below those of the original RTX 4070 cards.
Sources:
VideoCardz, Hassan Mujtaba (Twitter)
ASUS isn't the only NVIDIA board partner with an RTX 4070 GDDR6, Wccftech spotted a GALAX branded card that comes with the model string "RTX 4070 D6 1-click OC." Its retail box features a large specs-sheet on the front face that clearly mentions GDDR6 as the memory type. NVIDIA's move to re-spec the RTX 4070 with 20 Gbps GDDR6 was originally seen as a move to reduce its costs, letting the card be sold closer to the $500-mark. It remains to be seen if real-world prices settle down below those of the original RTX 4070 cards.
75 Comments on GeForce RTX 4070 with Slower GDDR6 Memory Priced on-par with Regular RTX 4070 Cards
Right. I don’t think anything indicated that the 4070 was ever bandwidth starved (complaints were about the AMOUNT of VRAM) and 5% is a negligible decrease. And the regular GDDR6 should be less power hungry and cooler than 6X, so it might be an arguable improvement.
Final Destination onlyanyway.I'm more curious about what this change does to the power draw.
Keep quiet and pay your overlords, they are there to screw with you.
I would much prefer they made a new SKU but on the other hand if the end result is the same, I am not sure which would confuse customers more.
Reality is that AMD is cheaper for a reason, and still don't sell well. Looking at pure raster perf and nothing else, in 2024, is a big nope. People want good upscaling. Good Frame Gen. Useful RT, Just features that work. Meanwhile AMD releases beta features like Anti Lag + that got people VAC banned on Steam. Reflex is far superior. Just like DLSS/DLAA beats FSR. DLDSR beats VSR. And I could keep going. Also, RTX features are in like 600+ games at the moment. We are not talking about a small handful of games here.
Nvidia sits at like ~90% gaming GPU marketshare because they offer superior products, with vastly better features and runs at lower power usage in general (both in games, when using multi monitor setups and watching simple video, Nvidia is like twice as efficient in MM and during videoplayback - Also wins in games by 10-25% depending on GPU - Go look any TPU review in the Power Consumption tests)
Also, its even worse in esport titles.
Take a look at 2:30 here:
However, I don't see how this "new" 4070 will be measurably better or worse than the normal 4070. Even the 4070 Ti struggles to max its b/w at resolutions below 4K and this GPU doesn't promise significant OC even if G6X→G6 shaves >20 W off.They replaced ~50% dies for $500 with ~33% dies for $600. 4070 is just a THIRD of what a fully developed Ada die can do, whereas 3070 is about 50% of what you can squeeze from Ampere. With competition being non-existent I don't see it stopping.