Scorching on the heels of reviews that Nvidia may very well be engaged on a 16GB variant of the upcoming RTX 4060 Ti (opens in new tab) comes information that the RTX 4070 may very well be getting a transforming, too.
This time, nevertheless, it is not the VRAM allocation however the RTX 4070’s GPU die itself that is rumoured to be the goal of the modifications. Lengthy-time GPU soothsayer kopite7kimi (opens in new tab) (through Videocardz (opens in new tab)) says that Nvidia may launch a brand new RTX 4070 (opens in new tab) variant primarily based on the AD103 die.
That GPU, after all, is the chip you will discover within the way more highly effective RTX 4080 board. The RTX 4070 and RTX 4070 Ti (opens in new tab) presently use the smaller, cheaper AD104 GPU.
At the moment, the RTX 4070 runs 5,888 CUDA cores. Nonetheless, the AD103 chip has totally 10,240 cores. Meaning Nvidia may disable practically half the cores, permitting for chips with a number of manufacturing defects to be salvaged.
Nvidia may additionally do a variant of the RTX 4070 primarily based on AD103 with extra cores than the present AD104 model. There may be precedent for that type of factor.
Nonetheless, it would not make sense to extend the CUDA core depend or efficiency an excessive amount of. In any case, Nvidia additionally sells the RTX 4070 Ti, one other AD104 variant, this time with 7,680 CUDA cores.
Nonetheless, there was arguably a much bigger hole between the RTX 4070 and 4070 Ti fashions than you usually see between a normal and Ti model of a given GPU tier. So, a barely quicker 4070 may make sense.
It might additionally make sense to go on and create RTX 4070 Ti’s out of damaged AD103 chips, too, and arguably extra so given the prevailing RTX 4070 already makes use of a closely cutdown model of the AD104 die.
No matter, all of it provides to the sense that Nvidia is prepared to regulate its maturing Ada Lovelace era of GPUs. First, it cancelled the RTX 4080 12GB (opens in new tab), rebranding it into the RTX 4070 Ti.
Then we obtained the information that Nvidia would possibly do a 16GB model of the RTX 4060 Ti to go off considerations that the usual card’s 8GB is not adequate for the most recent video games. Now this mooted AD103-based RTX 4070 variant.
After all, utilizing a bigger GPU order to salvage partially damaged chips is nothing new. Each AMD and Nvidia do that so as to successfully increase yields. However will probably be attention-grabbing to see if Nvidia makes use of what’s often a business measure meant to be largely invisible to GPU consumers to barely reposition its RTX 40-series GPUs.
It is most likely honest to say they’ve had one thing of a blended reception to date. However just about all of that has been right down to how Nvidia has positioned and worth the assorted fashions to date. No person doubts that underlying expertise and structure of Ada Lovelace. That is nice.
However in actually easy phrases, it could be good have higher specified variants for a bit much less money. Watch this area.
