NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 Launches Today: Same GPU Specs, Same Price, Same Performance, Tweaked G6 Memory To Meet Huge Demand From Gamers

NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 4070 with GDDR6 memory is launching today & features the same specs, the same performance & even the same price to cater to the huge demand from gamers.

Massive Demand Makes NVIDIA's Partners Equip Popular GeForce RTX 4070 GPUs With GDDR6 Memory Instead of GDDR6X, No Performance Loss & Wide Availability Anticipated

Today, NVIDIA's partners will be releasing a brand new GeForce RTX 4070 GPU, the GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6. This new model will incorporate GDDR6 memory instead of GDDR6X and the reason behind the sudden change is due to the high demand for this particular SKU and a slight shortage of GDDR6X memory dies which have been dedicated to the higher-end models. As the RTX 4070s demand grew, partners decided to integrate GDDR6 memory as the memory was available in ample supply.

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Same GPU Specs, Tweaked 20 Gbps GDDR6 Memory

So let's start with the specifications of this new variant. The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 retains the same core specifications as the GDDR6X model. It features the AD104-250/251-A1 graphics chip with 5888 CUDA cores, 184 TMUs, and 64 ROPs configured with 46 SM units. The graphics card will operate at a base clock of 1920 MHz and a boost clock of 2475 MHz. The VRAM configuration will also remain the same with 12 GB capacity running across a 192-bit interface & here's where the main difference comes.

Since GDDR6 memory is used, the clock rate has been tweaked to 20 Gbps which is lower than the 21 Gbps GDDR6X modules but still higher for the G6 standard which mostly ended up at 18 Gbps & 19 Gbps in previous offerings.

The GDDR6 modules on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 also feature tuned memory timings and Latencies to deliver better performance than standard dies. This is to ensure that data transfer between the GPU & memory retains optimized interconnect bandwidth. The 20 Gbps modules offer 480 GB/s bandwidth, slightly