NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 rumored to feature 5888 CUDA cores, 12GB memory and 250W TDP

New specs for NVIDIA RTX 4070

With rumors focusing entirely on the ‘unlaunched’ RTX 4080 12GB and its ‘reincarnation’ as RTX 4070 Ti, we have not heard much about the RTX 4070 non-Ti SKU for a while. Today hardware leaker @kopite7kimi has an update on this new graphics card specifically.

It is alleged that RTX 4070 graphics card which was supposed to feature 10GB of memory and 160-bit interface, has now been upgraded to 12GB 192-bit configuration. These are new specs that have not been mentioned before.

According to Kopite, this SKU is now believed to feature 46 Streaming Multiprocessors, so 5888 CUDA cores. That’s significantly fewer than previously rumored 7168, but also the same configuration as the current RTX 3070 SKU. At the same time, this card is supposedly getting ‘an upgrade’ to 12GB 192-bit spec, so the memory bandwidth would be identical to RTX 4070 Ti.

Furthermore, the RTX 4070 is to have TDP of 250W, so just 35W less than the Ti variant. That said, both models are to feature AD104 GPU, similar thermal power requirements, and identical memory specs, meaning board partners are likely use the same board design for both SKUs.

This also raises a question when we should expect this model to launch. Given that the RTX 4070 Ti has been pushed back to January, and it features very similar specs, the non-Ti variant might launch just as soon. The only reason not to launch this SKU right is overstock of RTX 3070/3080 cards and no sign of AMD Radeon RX 7800 series.

RUMORED NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 Series Specs
VideoCardz.com	GeForce RTX 4090	GeForce RTX 4080	GeForce RTX 4070 Ti	GeForce RTX 4070
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Board-SKU	PG136-SKU330	PG136-SKU360	PG141-SKU331	PG141-SKU336/337
Architecture	Ada (TSMC 4N)	Ada (TSMC 4N)	Ada (TSMC 4N)	Ada (TSMC 4N)
GPU	AD102-300	AD103-300	AD104-400	AD104-250
GPU Transistors	76.3B	45.9B	35.8B	35.8B
GPU Die Size	608 mm²	379 mm²	295 mm²	295 mm²
SMs	128	76	60	46
CUDA Cores	16384	9728	7680	5888
Boost Clock	2.5 GHz	2.5 GHz	2.6 GHz	TBC
Memory	24 GB G6X	16 GB G6X	12 GB G6X	12 GB G6X
Memory Bus	384-bit	256-bit	192-bit	192-bit
Memory Speed	21 Gbps	22.4 Gbps	21 Gbps	21 Gbps
Bandwidth	1008 GB/s	736 GB/s	504 GB/s	504 GB/s
Default TGP	450W	320W	285W	250W
MSRP	1599 USD	1199 USD	TBC	TBC
Release Date	October 12th, 2022	November 16h, 2022	January 5th, 2023	TBC

Source: @kopite7kimi