Nvidia announces the GeForce RTX 4070 series of the desktop graphics card and is also the cheapest so far. This VGA card will be available starting on April 13.
The RTX 4070 runs on the AD104 GPU based on the company’s latest Ada Lovelace architecture. Compared to the Ti model, this RTX 4070 has only 5888 CUDA cores, while the Ti version has 7680 and a boost clock at 2475MHz versus 2610MHz. Both models have 12GB GDDR6X with a 192-bit bus, 21Gbps speed, and 504GBps bandwidth.
The RTX 4070 uses 3rd generation RT cores and 4th generation Tensor cores, it means the hardware can deliver shader execution reordering and DLSS3 frame generation. The VGA card uses an 8th generation NVENC encoder for encoding in AV1 as well.
The 4070 needs 200W to deliver full power, but Nvidia claimed the average gaming power of 186W. The company also claimed this model has the same performance as RTX 3080 while running at half the power. The RTX 4070 has 12GB of memory compared to the standard 3080’s 10GB. We also can see this RTX 4070 is 1.4x faster than the 3080 and 2.6x faster than the 2070 Super.
The RTX 4070 will be available from some manufacturers, like ASUS, Colorful, Gainward, Palit, KFA2, INNO3D, GIGABYTE, MSI, GALAX, PNY, and ZOTAC for a starting price of $599. Customers who purchase these 40-series cards now, they will get the new Overwatch 2 Battle Pass Bundle with additional OW2 coins until May 8, 2023, for free.