NVIDIA France Accidentally Reveals GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Specs

[Bwaze]

We have the new 4070 ti model, a model that based on that "70" many where expecting/hoping to see at $500 a few months ago, coming at $800. And that's even optimistic considering there was a chance it was coming at $900, where the 4080 12GB was, if I am not mistaken. How do we get here? How do Nvidia expects to sell a 70 model at that price level? Is tech press a parameter here? My personal opinion is that it is. If readers/viewers read/hear a half full glass conclusion "expensive, but fast, justifies it's price based on market conditions", they will buy it. If they read/hear a half empty glass conclusion "fast, but expensive, don't buy it before a price drop", they might avoid it.

Exactly.

Writing that the price increase is justified by the great performance increase - when almost every generation in the long history of 3D graphics cards featured similar performance increase without the price increase can only be explained as tech press acting as a company PR, not an independent reviewer.

 

[fevgatos]

Vram is needed for RT and Texture resolution and Resolution its played at, so yeah, in the future all those just become more demanding so Vram will be a problem.

Portal RTX uses 16gb of Vram at 4k RIGHT NOW sooo yeah.

Really? Portal RTX uses 16 gb of Vram? Holy crap, so I assume the 7900xtx that is feature proofed with all that vram is doing great in portal, right?

 

[john_]

Nvidia was always using VRAM capacity and/or memory bus as a way to limit the future proof lifespan of mid range products that are faster than what they should be for their price. 4070 Ti with 12GB of VRAM will be having NO problems at current games and reviews will show it, offering great value compared to RTX 4080 and better value than 7900 XT, but in the future that will be slowly changing. That "fine wine" about Radeon cards is not just AMD's... delayed optimization with drivers. It's also Nvidia's hardware decisions in certain models. Of course for people who usually change hardware every 2 years or more frequently, this isn't going to be a problem. They will pay $800-$900 today for the 4070 Ti and sell it at $600-$700 in 1-2 years before the limited memory starts becoming a factor.