The Nvidia RTX 4070 Ti, née RTX 4080 12GB, has now been officially announced on Nvidia’s dedicated CES address (opens in new tab) in news that will come as no shock to anyone. That’s the leaky GPU industry we already had The $799 launch price and January 5 release date (opens in new tab) revealed.
But now Nvidia has shown off a few more of its own performance metrics, promising that this third-rate Ada GPU will “max out your 1440p gaming monitor,” according to Nvidia’s Jeff Fisher. Nvidia’s numbers show the card outperforming the RTX 3090 Ti in a decent way, but it’s probably worth noting that the numbers are probably taken under best-case scenarios with DLSS 3 and Frame Generation for the good order.
I would suggest waiting for some independent numbers before jumping to conclusions about performance. I have a feeling you won’t have to wait too long…
We already know quite a bit about the RTX 4070 Ti, especially considering that Nvidia had previously announced it as the RTX 4080 12GB at the end of 2022 then undo (opens in new tab) given the consternation about having two disparate GPUs under the exact same name.
The RTX 4070 Ti then has the same specs, uses the same AD104 GPU, but now comes with a $100 lower price tag. That will probably just be the RTX 4080 16 GB (opens in new tab) for $1,200+ and the RX7900XT (opens in new tab) for $899 even more unpalatable than they already are.
With this expected identical spec, it means the RTX 4070 Ti will come with fewer CUDA cores than the RTX 3080 10GB, a memory system more similar to the RTX 3060, and a GPU only slightly larger than the one in an RTX 3050.
If it’s anything like the existing RTX 40-series cards, then it’ll rely on a combination of fast clock speeds and abundant L2 cache to keep it ahead of the higher specs of previous generation GPUs.
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A sad thing to note is that Nvidia still holds no hope for mainstream gamers in terms of GPU releases more tailored to a reasonable budget. Sure, the $799 price tag is lower than AMD’s new cards, and the original price it was listed under the old RTX 4080 12GB badge, but it’s still a huge amount of money for a single component.
On that note, Fisher explains that “the RTX 30 series is still the best GPU for mainstream gamers,” without a hint of the sadness that wording will be received with.