Arguably probably the most dependable supply of pre-release GPU specs, kopite7kimi, has tweeted some key numbers (opens in new tab) for Nvidia’s upcoming GeForce RTX 4070 graphics card. The unhealthy information is that the brand new GPU reportedly has precisely the identical variety of shaders, RT cores and render outputs because the outdated RTX 3070 (opens in new tab). So, the brand new 4070’s efficiency soar may principally be about clockspeeds.
The brand new GPU additionally is alleged to have extra reminiscence than the RTX 3070, with 12GB as an alternative of 8GB, nevertheless. Nvidia can also have bumped the L2 cache from 4MB to 32MB. However a lot of the {hardware} specs are disappointingly just like ye olde 3070:
5,888 FP32 shaders, 46 RT cores, and 64 ROPs. The one huge change, subsequently, is the chip’s enhance clock, now mentioned to be 2,610MHz, a 51% leap over the 1,725MHz peak frequency of the RTX 3070. As ever, all this stays mere hearsay, not official specs from Nvidia.
Nonetheless, kopite7kimi has a wonderful observe document in the case of early seems at GPU specs. Furthermore, these numbers all make sense when it comes to what Nvidia has already introduced from the RTX 40 Sequence, together with the RTX 4090 (opens in new tab), RTX 4080 (opens in new tab) and the GPU previously often known as the RTX 4080 12GB (opens in new tab), now cancelled and anticipated to resurface as CES (opens in new tab) in January rebranded because the RTX 4070 Ti.
By comparability to the numbers above, the RTX 4080 12GB was specced up at 7,680 shaders, 60 RT cores and 80 ROPS earlier than Nvidia nixxed it, so any RTX 4070 reasonably than RTX 4070 Ti is a nailed-on certainty to come back in under these figures. Hopefully we’ll discover out quickly sufficient, as we’re anticipating each the 4070 Ti and the 4070 to be introduced at CES in a month’s time.
Anyway, a 50% bump during the last gen card is to not be sniffed at. However as will lots of this newest technology of GPUs, we won’t feeling it may have been significantly better nonetheless. Think about not simply 50% larger clocks however 50% extra shaders, too. Oh, nicely. Perhaps subsequent time.