The GeForce RTX 4070, a $599 GPU that NVIDIA launched last year for gamers who wanted to max out their favorite games at 1440p, advertised as using 23% less power than the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti while running up to 1.7x faster with DLSS 3 when gaming, has been updated with what’s been described as “extra fast” GDDR6 memory in order to improve supply and availability of what is apparently a very popular graphics card, NVIDIA has announced. The update to the GeForce RTX 4070’s memory comes a year and four months after the introduction of the GPU, which was launched in April 2023.
The memory differences are said to include:
- GeForce RTX 4070 (GDDR6)
- Memory Clock: 20 Gbps
- Memory Bandwidth: 480 GB/s
- GeForce RTX 4070 (GDDR6X)
- Memory Clock: 21 Gbps
- Memory Bandwidth: 504 GB/s
NVIDIA writes:
- “To improve supply and availability to meet strong demand, we’re introducing the GeForce RTX 4070 with extra fast GDDR6 memory.”
- “All of the other specs remain the same. It offers similar performance in games and applications.”
- “It will be available from our graphics cards partners worldwide, starting in September.”
A look at the updated GeForce RTX 4070 Series spec table:
The original announcement trailer:
NVIDIA said of the GeForce RTX 4070 in April 2023:
Compared to the RTX 2070 SUPER, the GeForce RTX 4070 is 2.6x faster with DLSS 3 on average, and the GeForce RTX 4070 is 1.4x faster than the GeForce RTX 3080 with DLSS 3 on average. DLSS 3 provides Ada GPUs with a tremendous performance boost, but the GeForce RTX 4070 also excels in traditional games that don’t 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.