In a small mistake, the manufacturer of the graphics card Nvidia Launch page launched GeForce RTX 4070Ti, which has a release date scheduled for next Thursday (5). Even staying in the air for a short time, it was enough for a leaker take a printout of the page.
And confirming the rumors, the technical specifications of the RTX 4070 Ti match the RTX 4080 12GB perfectly. In case you don’t remember, the RTX 4080 12GB canceled by NVIDIA after the company received a series of criticisms from consumers.
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The criticisms are well founded. At that time, the company launched the placas RTX 4090, RTX 4080 16 GB and RTX 4080 12GB. Clearly the specs of the latter did not fall into the category of the other two GPUs.
Discount
The screenshot was taken from the NVIDIA France website. He reveals that the RTX 4070 Ti is getting a price cut. The GPU will launch at a price of $799. It is worth mentioning that when it was announced as the RTX 4080 12GB, its price was US$899. That is, we have a US$100 reduction here.
It was precisely the price charged by NVIDIA that angered gamers. After all, the RTX 4080 graphics card has to be top of the line when it comes to gaming. It is second only to the RTX 4090, which is aimed at content creators and video editors.
So what NVIDIA did was “relaunch” the RTX 4080 12GB and, after a few months, re-release it as the RTX 4070 Ti. In practice, it is as if the company had downgraded the category plate. In addition to 12GB of GDDR6X memory, the RTX 4070 Ti also has 7,680 CUDA cores, a maximum clock of 2.61GHz, and a 192-bit memory interface.
Noticeable difference in performance
In my humble opinion, this was the right decision. The performance difference between the RTX 4080 16GB and RTX 4080 12GB is quite dramatic. Starting with the amount of GDDR6X memory. The RTX 4080 has 16GB, while the RTX 4070 Ti has “only” 12GB.
Also, it has fewer CUDA cores and a smaller memory interface. In numbers, that’s 2,048 fewer CUDA cores. And the RTX 4080’s memory interface is 256-bit. In practice, this makes a huge difference in performance.
The lower performance of the RTX 4070 Ti is also reflected in its power consumption. It needs “only” 285W to work. The RTX 4080 requires 320W from the power supply. Therefore, it really makes more sense for NVIDIA to relaunch the GPU as the RTX 4070 Ti, which is a category below which it was previously announced.
Sources: Momo_US (Twitter) e The limit
