NVIDIA is reportedly ready to launch its RTX 4070 graphics card in April. The news comes a couple of weeks after a retail box of the RTX 4070 graphics card was spotted online, leading to speculation that it could launch soon. The RTX 4070 will be the fourth card in NVIDIA's RTX 4000 lineup, announced last September. It is expected to be more of a mid-range offering for the mainstream market, compared to the pricier RTX 4090, 4080, and 4070 Ti already available.
NVIDIA has reportedly notified its board partners that the RTX 4070 launch will take place in April 2023. The information, which is under embargo, does not mention a specific date and is subject to change in the future. As pointed out by VideoCardz, which has access to the embargoed documents, the RTX 4070 production could start this month. However, NVIDIA's embargoed information has changed in the past, so there's no guarantee that the launch timeframe will be adhered to this time around either.
NVIDIA RTX 4070 Could Be Coming In April
The RTX 4070 is rumored to have two GPU variants, including the AD104-250 and AD104-251. If the speculation turns out to be accurate, it might require board changes for each SKU. Regarding hardware, the RTX 4070 could feature 5,888 Shader Cores and 12GB of GDDR6X memory, and the base clock speeds could be set at 1920MHz, while the boost clock could go up to 2475MHz. Either way, it will be a cut-down version of the RTX 4070 Ti, with a slightly lower 200W TDP instead of the 285W power rating of the more expensive card.
Recent rumors also suggest that the AD104 GPU in the RTX 4070 could have only 46 out of 60 streaming multiprocessors (SM) enabled, and it is also expected to have 46 RT cores and 184 Tensor cores. The upcoming card is also tipped to have a 192-bit memory bus, 21Gbps memory speed, and 504 GB/s bandwidth. The RTX 4070 will be a fairly capable card, so its success will depend on its pricing.
Apart from the desktop RTX 40 lineup, NVIDIA also unveiled the RTX 40-series GPUs for laptops at CES 2023 last month. The company also clarified that the entire range of RTX 4000 GPUs will come to laptops, including the top-of-the-line 4090. People looking for more affordable alternatives will also get to choose from laptops running the RTX 4080, RTX 4070, RTX 4060, and even the entry-level RTX 4050. Laptops featuring the new NVIDIA chips went on pre-order last week and will be available from Feb. 8.
Source: VideoCardz