Nvidia’s RTX 4070 Ti has been listed by an Italian retailer with a launch date of January 5.

If true, which means that the third Lovelace graphics card is just a month away from hitting the cabinets – however naturally, we must always take any such leak with a substantial amount of skepticism.

That mentioned, it does again up earlier spinning from the rumor mill which put ahead a January 5 on-sale date for the RTX 4070 Ti, so this isn’t the primary time we’ve been handled to this prediction.

The retailer in query is Drako, as flagged up by French tech web site Cowcotland (opens in new tab) (by way of Wccftech (opens in new tab)), with the listed card being an Asus GeForce RTX 4070 Ti TUF. Nevertheless, within the final hour, the Italian retailer has taken down the itemizing, and the hyperlink offered now not works.

Additional hypothesis right here from Cowcotland contends that the RTX 4070 Ti will likely be introduced the day earlier than it’s on-sale, so January 4. However that doesn’t match with the truth that Nvidia has a GeForce occasion on January three at CES 2023, which certainly have to be the place the brand new Lovelace GPU will likely be revealed (certainly, whether it is unveiled).

Evaluation: Rising chance that the RTX 4070 Ti is imminent

It’s value noting that somewhat oddly, Drako acknowledged ‘O12G, 16GB GDDR6X’ within the product itemizing title, however below the specs for the GPU, it clearly talked about 12GB of VRAM. After all, that is the 12GB that was to be discovered within the canceled lower-tier RTX 4080 that-never-was, which this RTX 4070 Ti is basically a disguised model of, as we’ve mentioned up to now. Presumably the point out of 16GB was a mistake within the product title (it additionally mentioned ‘12G’ after all, which stands for 12 Gigabytes).

No different spec data was given by the now vanished product itemizing, and below the CUDA Cores quantity, the retailer simply acknowledged ‘to be introduced’, so we have been nonetheless left  at midnight there. Effectively, not fairly utterly at midnight, as a result of the rumor mill has floated the concept that the RTX 4070 Ti will run with 7,680 CUDA Cores and a 192-bit reminiscence bus, together with a TDP of 285W.

Concerning January 5, this may very well be a case of the Italian retailer having guessed at a date, or in different phrases, it was a placeholder – perhaps selecting up on the aforementioned date from the rumor mill and utilizing that. We merely don’t know, however one different piece of proof that does counsel the RTX 4070 Ti isn’t far off is a submitting of a number of Gigabyte fashions of the cardboard which was just lately unearthed.

Moreover, with this being a kind of relaunch of that RTX 4080 lower-tier spin – or that’s definitely the prevailing principle, for apparent causes – it’d be no shock that all the pieces was in place for a comparatively swift launch of the 4070 Ti. We will see subsequent month…

With no point out of the value tag being made, that’ll clearly be a key aspect. The hope is that we would see a $699 MSRP within the US (and costs in step with that elsewhere), however we don’t really feel too optimistic that it will translate into actuality. A extra doubtless pitch for Nvidia is $749, perhaps even $799, although clearly it ought to be lower than the canceled RTX 4080 12GB which ran to $899 earlier than the GPU was ‘unlaunched’ by Staff Inexperienced (following a lower than constructive reception, let’s say).

The hazard of overpricing is that Nvidia will depart the door open for AMD’s inbound RX 7900 XT and 7900 XTX graphics playing cards, which come out December 13, however maybe not in any nice amount till the tip of the month if rumors on the Staff Pink aspect are proper.

That being the case, these new RDNA three GPUs from AMD are going to be just about going up towards the RTX 4070 Ti in addition to the 4080, so Nvidia would possibly wish to take the chance to cost a bit extra competitively, and achieve some seasonal goodwill again from avid gamers.

Goodwill that Staff Inexperienced remains to be quickly dropping, between the extortionate pricing for third-party customized fashions of the RTX 4080, and with the RTX 4090, the entire cable melting controversy which actually isn’t serving to Nvidia’s trigger both – definitely not now that reported instances are over 50.

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