Nvidia RTX 4070 Ti GPU announced at CES 2023: all the details
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We’ve just finished watching Nvidia’s big presentation at CES 2023, and we’re pleased to report that a new GPU is in the works from Team Green – one that won’t make a hole in your pocket (or your PC case). ) will burn like the RTX 4090.
Yes, the long-awaited RTX 4070 Ti is here, poised to deliver powerful 4K gaming performance with a relatively slim (but still quite high) price tag of $799. It’s due out in just two days, on January 5th.
Predictably, this GPU appears to have the same specs as the canceled RTX 4080 12GB, which is no surprise given that Nvidia publicly admitted that the card was misnamed.
This lines up with leaked specs for the 4070 Ti: the card will use the AD104 GPU chip, which has 7,680 CUDA cores, 240 tensor cores, and 60 ray tracing cores. It will feature the same 12GB of GDDR6X VRAM that the original RTX 4080 12GB would have used, and the GPU has a boost clock of 2,610MHz. This goes well beyond the previous generation’s flagship card, the RTX 3090 Ti.
When it comes to power requirements, the RTX 4070 Ti comes with a relatively conservative TDP of 285W, meaning many gamers will probably get away without having to upgrade their PSU to use this card. Nvidia’s existing Lovelace cards showed good power efficiency under less intensive load, something that will hopefully be the case here as well.
Analysis: A much-needed entry into the current generation of GPUs – but we can go further
Being one of Nvidia’s Lovelace GPUs, the RTX 4070 Ti comes with all the greatness of the new generation of graphics cards. The biggest draw here is DLSS 3, the upgraded form of Nvidia’s AI-powered upscaling technology, which can now use full frame generation to boost frame rates by up to double. Nvidia was eager to show off its new capabilities at the CES livestream event.
Improved ray tracing and deep learning capabilities are a given, and existing software such as the latency-reducing Nvidia Reflex will perform even better on the new hardware. Lowering the barrier to entry with more mid-range cards is good to see, but Team Green needs to move on: we need the RTX 4060, guys!
Let’s face it: $799 is hardly “midrange” in the current economic climate. For reference, that’s $200 more expensive than the previous generation RTX 3070 Ti. The most powerful GPU in the top 10 most used cards in Steam’s December 2022 Hardware Survey was the RTX 3070, which then only accounted for 2.72% of users – something that shows how most gamers still use affordable hardware.
Still, it’s good to see Nvidia not committing to the overpriced $899 list price of the RTX 4080 12GB that would eventually become this GPU. It’s a start – and of course we can expect lower prices for the RTX 4070 and 4060 cards once they finally arrive.
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