The GeForce RTX 4070, an Ada Lovelace graphics card that NVIDIA launched in April 2023 to deliver DLSS 3 neural rendering, real-time ray-tracing technologies, and what the company says is the ability to run most modern games at over 100 FPS at 1440p resolution for a starting price of $599, is being retooled with slower memory, according to a new rumor that suggests a new version of the graphics card is coming, one that features GDDR6 rather than GDDR6X memory. This GPU will feature a 20 Gbps memory speed, it’s claimed, making it slightly slower than the existing GDDR6X (21 Gbps) version.
Current GeForce RTX 4070 specs include:
- CUDA Cores: 5,888
- Boost Clock: 2.48 GHz
- Base Clock: 1.92 GHz
- Memory: 12 GB GDDR6X
- Memory Interface Width: 192-bit
A look at how the GPU compares versus its predecessors:
The original word from MEGAsizeGPU:
GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6
— MEGAsizeGPU (@Zed__Wang) August 5, 2024
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GDDR6 might be 20Gbps
Other specs remain the same.
NVIDIA on the GeForce RTX 4070:
Compared to the RTX 2070 SUPER, the GeForce RTX 4070 is on average 2.6x faster with DLSS 3, and on average 1.4x faster than the GeForce RTX 3080 with DLSS 3.
DLSS 3 provides Ada Lovelace GPUs with a tremendous performance boost, but the GeForce RTX 4070 also excels in traditional games that do not include more advanced features such as ray tracing and DLSS.
In these rasterized games, the GeForce RTX 4070 is on par with the GeForce RTX 3080 while running at nearly half the power — and offering an additional 2GB of memory. Additionally, the RTX 4070’s memory subsystem has been enhanced with 36MB of L2 cache and 12GB of ultra-high-speed GDDR6X memory.