Nvidia’s RTX 4070 Ti, the rumored-to-be-imminent graphics card that’ll be the third Lovelace providing, has witnessed a spec spillage – and the obvious takeaway is that it’s equivalent to the canceled RTX 4080 12GB.

The purported specs had been highlighted by VideoCardz (opens in new tab) and are available direct from a card producer, particularly Colourful which aired the RTX 4070 Ti BattleAx Deluxe on its web site. Though the product web page has now been yanked down, it confirmed many of the specs of the BattleAx card, in addition to photographs too.

The graphics card is black with pink trim however appears pretty plain in any other case, and it employs the identical cooler because the RTX 4080 16GB – which is telling when it comes to the resemblance to the ditched 12GB model of the 4080.

Furthermore, as we talked about on the outset, the specs supplied are equivalent. The Colourful RTX 4070 Ti runs with the identical clock pace because the ‘unlaunched’ 4080 12GB (2310MHz base clock) and has 12GB of GDDR6X VRAM with a 192-bit reminiscence bus. TDP is listed at 285W, once more simply the identical because the canceled lower-tier 4080 (and naturally, the 4070 Ti makes use of the identical GPU too – the AD104).

Evaluation: Nvidia is in some difficult pricing territory

Whereas this leak appears fairly stable – coming from an precise card maker, full with a number of photographs of the RTX 4070 Ti BattleAx Deluxe – we should always nonetheless train slightly trepidation across the specs supplied.  There’s an opportunity that whoever put up the product web page may have made a mistake – the web page itself going up appears to have been an accident, in any case – or quite, a number of errors (throughout a number of spec factors), however that doesn’t appear very probably.

At any fee, taking this leak at face worth, what does it inform us? That Nvidia seems to be relaunching the RTX 4080 12GB because the RTX 4070 Ti, and whereas we knew this was coming to a degree, we anticipated some slight tweaks to distinguish the fashions (like clocks tuned down a bit, maybe). It seems to be the case that it is a literal relaunch of the very same card.

Though that stated, one key a part of the spec is lacking, and that’s the CUDA Core depend. AD104 was realized because the full-fat model with all 7,680 cores within the 4080 12GB, so we don’t know for positive if that’ll be the case for the RTX 4070 Ti.

There stays the chance that Nvidia will differentiate the 4070 Ti with a barely cut-down quantity of CUDA Cores. That method, Workforce Inexperienced can say ‘look, this card is completely different to that canceled 4080’, and that additionally justifies Nvidia slicing the value considerably from the $899 that lower-tier 4080 was pitched at. The hazard is that if Nvidia reveals what seems to be the identical graphics card at 100 bucks much less – or perhaps even cheaper – it begs the query why was the 4080 12GB priced so excessive, then?

Nevertheless, the rumor mill firmly believes that the 4070 Ti will run with the total 7,680 CUDA Cores, and if it really is equivalent to the 4080 12GB, then how does Nvidia justify a worth drop? As a result of pushing out the 4070 Ti at $899 (as the identical card in all however title) will certainly not be an possibility, significantly given Nvidia’s unpopularity as a result of present pricing of Lovelace GPUs, and the RTX 4080 16GB specifically.

That is simply hypothesis, however right here’s the place one other rumor doubtlessly comes into play. Nvidia is supposedly mulling a worth reduce for the RTX 4080 16GB, in response to ailing gross sales (definitely in comparison with the RTX 4090) and to spice up its reputation ranges normally, maybe – and probably to fight the incoming launch of RDNA three GPUs from AMD, too. And if that 4080 16GB worth drops considerably, that provides Nvidia a justification to have the RTX 4070 Ti at a lower cost level, even when it’s the identical spec – as a result of the launch worth pinned to the 4080 12GB can be now not related (with the 16GB mannequin being cheaper).

We will see, however one factor this sighting of the RTX 4070 Ti in a list with photographs does make for is one other sturdy trace that the launch is close to sufficient, what with Colourful seemingly able to go along with its web site supplies, and apparently leaping the gun a bit right here. The rumor mill reckons that the 4070 Ti is ready to debut on January 5, and that has been the idea for some time now.

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