Nvidia preparing launch of GeForce RTX 4070, planned for April

The fourth model of RTX 4000: Nvidia has disclosed the approximate launch date to manufacturers

Last month, the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti went on sale as the third model in Nvidia’s Ada Lovelace generation. It’s rather steeply priced at 799 USD though, while a generation back the third SKU in the roster was the RTX 3070 at 499 USD. A lot of people are likely  waiting for the lower-end cards of the lineup. Now, information has emerged as to when those might appear – namely the GeForce RTX 4070 SKU without the additional “Ti”.

Last week, the VideoCardz website published a report stating that according to their information, Nvidia has started to disclose information to their partner manufacturers in preparation of the release of this model, of course under an information embargo. This information does not yet include the exact date when the GeForce RTX 4070 will be released, vidia is yet to finalize it. But they do state that the start of sales of cards with physical availability will occur sometime within the month of April, so we do finally have at least the ballpark idea of availability date.

Exactly when in April will the GeForce RTX 4070 hit stores is too much to guess from this alone. Dates right at the beginning of the month, right at the end and anywhere in between are probably possible. The ability to buy this card is 7 to 11 weeks away by this point. But it must be said that dates communicated in this way are not always final. Nvidia can delay availability, and has done so quite often in recent years, especially during the cryptocurrency bubble when a number of already documented and scheduled cards didn’t come out for many months.

These delays tend to have economic reasons. There’s probably less chance of Nvidia delaying the launch due to technical issues than of delays in order to first sell off more of the older generation GeForce RTX 3000 graphics cards that the new generation would be competing with for customers.

Availability of the GeForce RTX 4070 in stores is now scheduled for April (source: VideoCardz)

Leaked specifications

The GeForce RTX 4070 is currently expected to provide 5888 shaders (46 SMs, 46 RT cores, 184 tensor cores). The shaders are said to have reference clock speeds of 1920 MHz (base) and 2475 MHz (boost), which would give a theoretical performance of roughly 29 TFLOPS, while the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti is said to have 40 TFLOPS (so the new card would offer roughly 73 % of its raw performance). The card will have a 200W TDP and a 192-bit wide memory bus with 12GB of GDDR6X clocked at 21.0GHz effectively, giving it the same 504GB/s bandwidth available to the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti.

Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 Founders Edition

According to leaker Kopite7kimi, the Founders Edition version will be based on the AD104-250 die and this card/PCB has the internal designation PG141-SKU344 (note that while there is no Founders Edition version of the RTX 4070 Ti, there will be one for sale as of this lower-end model). Cards from other manufacturers that use the reference PCB and not a custom one will be based on either the PG141-SKU343 or PG141-SKU345 PCB design, we sill be seeing two versions on the market. The first will use the original AD104-250 GPU revision, while the second version (SKU345) is expected to use the newer AD104-251 revision.

According to previous information, the difference is that the AD104-251 revision saves manufacturers some discrete components that would otherwise need to be added the PCB to fix functionality that apparently did not work properly in the first die revision. It has been reported that it has something to do with fan speed control, so nothing you should be afraid of. Note that this is all word-of-mouth information that is best taken with a grain of salt. In practice, in any case, both variants of the cards should be fully functional and you shouldn’t notice any difference as an user.

Sources: VideoCardz, Kopite7kimi

English translation and edit by Jozef Dudáš


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