NVIDIA claims GeForce RTX 4070 consumes 186W on average in gaming
A few days ago, we revealed the final retail price of the GeForce RTX 4070 GPU, the fourth Ada Lovelace desktop graphics card. Today we have ‘official’ confirmation.
In case there was any doubt on what GPU might RTX 4070 use, NVIDIA confirms its AD104 GPU. The specification slide does not mention CUDA core count, but we do learn the card will have 36MB of L2 Cache, (4070 Ti has 48MB). This is still a much more than last-gen RTX 3070 Ti and RTX 3070 GPUs, which only had 4MB.
On the other hand, memory bandwidth will be lowered compared to 3070 Ti (504 GB/s vs. 608 GB/s). The RTX 4070 non-Ti is to feature 12GB GDDR6X memory across a 192-bit interface with memory clocked at 21 Gbps. Despite narrower bus, the 3070 to 4070 upgrade path will result in higher bandwidth, though.
GeForce RTX 4070 specs and pricing, Source: NVIDIA
As we know, the new TDP figures for RTX GPUs are less likely to correspond to real-world gaming scenarios, those figures are typically lower. The 4070 non-Ti is no exception, it will consume 186W on average during gaming, so less than the soon-to-be ‘advertised’ 200W TDP. This figure is also lower than the average power consumption on RTX 3070 Ti and 3070 non-Ti SKUs.
The RTX 4070 price is officially $599, and it is unlikely to change. This is the same price as the RTX 3070 Ti, but that is still a $100 increase compared to the last-gen non-Ti SKU. For this, gamers will get 4GB more memory, newer RT and Tensor cores, support for DLSS3 tech and more advanced video encoding (AV1).
| NVIDIA RTX X070 CLASS GPUs | ||||
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| VideoCardz.com | RTX 4070 Ti | RTX 4070 | RTX 3070 Ti | RTX 3070 |
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| Board-SKU | PG141-SKU331 | PG141-SKU34X | PG143-SKU15 | PG142-SKU10 |
| Architecture | Ada (TSMC 4N) | Ada (TSMC 4N) | Ampere (SAMSUNG 8N) | Ampere (SAMSUNG 8N) |
| GPU | AD104-400 | AD104-250 | GA104-400 | GA104-30X |
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| Interface | PCIe Gen4 x16 | PCIe Gen4 x16 | PCIe Gen4 x16 | PCIe Gen4 x16 |
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| Release Date | January 5, 2023 | April 13, 2023 | June 10, 2021 | May 8, 2021 |