Multiple Vendors List Nvidia RTX 4070 Boards Early

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti
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It isn't uncommon for hardware makers and retailers to list yet-to-be-announced products weeks before they should officially start selling. It looks like this trend is repeating with Nvidia's GeForce RTX 4070. At least four vendors are already listing their RTX 4070-badged products, perhaps as a way to generate buzz and interest among consumers ahead of their official release, as noticed by @momomo_us and @harukaze5719.

MSI briefly listed its GeForce RTX 4070 Ventus 2X 12G graphics board on its website. The listing indicated that the product would carry 12GB of memory onboard and would feature a cooling system with two fans suggesting that we are dealing with a fairly compact graphics card, one of the first for the Ada Lovelace microarchitecture. Obviously, this is a preliminary listing, but since it is an official website, we can be more or less sure that it accurately reflects what MSI plans to offer. That said, take the news with a pinch of salt until the official release date arrives. 

Based on listings from a retailer, it seems that MSI also intends to release GeForce RTX 4070 Ventus 3X (with a bigger cooler), two Suprim-branded models, and two Gaming-badged boards aimed at enthusiasts and which are more than likely to enter the ranks of some of the best graphics cards available. So far, MSI and its partners seem to be offering at least eight GeForce RTX 4070 boards, which is a rather broad line-up. Prices of Geforce RTX 4070 offerings from MSI are likely to be significantly higher than the $599 allegedly recommended by Nvidia, though preliminary listed products tend to be overpriced in general.

Meanwhile, Gainward, Palit, and PNY also appear to prep multiple GeForce RTX 4070 versions, though these companies (or rather their partners) have yet to reveal more details about their offerings.

Listings of multiple GeForce RTX 4070 graphics cards weeks before launch could suggest that the product will be widely available right after the formal launch. Nvidia's GeForce RTX 4070 reportedly uses a cut-down version of the AD103 graphics processing unit with 5888 active CUDA cores, a chip that has been in mass production since late summer 2022. By now, the GPU developer should have plenty of silicon qualified for GeForce RTX 4070, so makers of graphics cards will have plenty of graphics chips to build products on.

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Nvidia RTX 40-Series Specifications (* are unconfirmed)
Row 0 - Cell 0 GPUFP32 CUDA CoresMemory ConfigurationTBPMSRP
GeForce RTX 4090 TiAD10218176 (?)24GB 384-bit 24 GT/s GDDR6X (?)600W (?)?
GeForce RTX 4090AD1021638424GB 384-bit 21 GT/s GDDR6X450W$1,599
GeForce RTX 4080AD103972816GB 256-bit 22.4 GT/s GDDR6X320W$1,199
GeForce RTX 4070 TiAD104768012GB 192-bit 21 GT/s GDDR6X285W$799
GeForce RTX 4070*AD1045888 (?)12GB 192-bit 21 GT/s GDDR6X250W (?)$599 (?)
GeForce RTX 4060 Ti*AD1064352 (?)8GB 128-bit 18 GT/s GDDR6160W (?)<$500?
Anton Shilov
Freelance News Writer

Anton Shilov is a Freelance News Writer at Tom’s Hardware US. Over the past couple of decades, he has covered everything from CPUs and GPUs to supercomputers and from modern process technologies and latest fab tools to high-tech industry trends.

  • cknobman
    Waiting for the initial waves of buyers who have "more dollars than sense" to buy all this overpriced crap and then when sales tank, and prices crash, pick up something at a decent price these things should have been launched at.
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  • sosofm
    800+ for 4070 is outrageos.Where tf will go the prices ?
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  • thisisaname
    Price/performance scaling is so messed up.

    The 4070 is about 35% of the cores of a 4090 at about 37.5%+ of the price.

    The bottom end of the stack is over priced. Pricing the lower cards compared to the "halo" cards is just madness!
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