The newly launched NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 is a cut down version of the premium RTX 4070 Ti featuring fewer cores. It supports 1440p at 100FPS with DLSS 3 and ray tracing technology. It was supposed to be paired with the AD104 GPU, but it looks like there might be a change in plans.
According to @kopite7kimi, NVIDIA is now planning to introduce the AD103 GPU for the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070. The graphics card has 5888 CUDA cores so using the AD103 means that 42% of the GPU would be partially disabled.
The full AD103 is not yet equipped with any graphics card in the market so far. However, the RTX 4080, which has 9728 CUDA cores, did ship with the AD103-301 at 5% of the GPU disabled.
Board partners should not face much difficulty switching out the AD104 with the AD103 since they are pin compatible. The latter will use lower TDP so it can adapt to the RTX 4070’s cooling solution. It will be interesting to see how the GPU affects the L3 cache, ROP count and AV1 encoding.
GeForce desktops with mixed GPUs are no stranger to Chinese markets. There are plenty of RTX 3060 and 3070 models with non-standard GPU designs. You can expect to see the RTX 4070 on sale in a while if things go as planned.
Hopefully, NVIDIA launches the updated RTX 4070 with the AD104 soon. Board partners are expected to release mixed GPUs with specific variants to give buyers more options.
About Nvidia
NVIDIA Corporation is an American multinational technology company incorporated in Delaware, based in Santa Clara, California. They design graphics processing units (GPUs) for the gaming and professional markets, as well as system on chip units (SoCs) for the mobile computing and automotive market.
Best known for the “GeForce” lines of GPUs, they are a direct competitor to AMD’s “Radeon” series. NVIDIA has also expanded its offerings with its handheld game consoles Shield Portable, Shield Tablet, and Shield Android TV and its cloud gaming service GeForce Now.
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