Simply final week, rumors emerged of Nvidia engaged on a brand new variant of the RTX 4070 that makes use of barely slower GDDR6 reminiscence, as a substitute of the standard GDDR6X. Now, a brand new rumor suggests these new Nvidia RTX 4070 GDDR6 playing cards might be showing on store cabinets as quickly as subsequent week.
The transfer to barely change the VRAM configuration of top-of-the-line graphics card choices you should purchase proper now could be a seemingly unusual one however has apparently been compelled by a scarcity of GDDR6X RAM. As such, Nvidia and its companions have apparently needed to work on an answer that enables for one among its extra reasonably priced and in style playing cards to proceed being offered.
Given simply how lately the RTX 4070 GDDR6 story broke, it’s stunning to see simply how rapidly we might discover the brand new playing cards on store cabinets. A minimum of that’s if the report from Taiwanese tech website, Board Channels, is to be believed.
Particularly, the (machine translated) report states that “the RTX4070 […] could also be briefly provide till no less than the twentieth. The brand new provide of RTX4070 GDDR6 reminiscence will in all probability arrive after the twentieth, and the provision might steadily ease.”
Not solely is using the phrase “in all probability” indicative of how speculative this report is however the common discuss right here is of provide, which might seek advice from the provision of the playing cards arriving in outlets however might additionally imply the provision of the reminiscence to the cardboard producers, through which case it might be a very long time earlier than these merchandise are shipped all over the world.
Nonetheless, it’s potential that as quickly as subsequent week we might see new variations of the RTX 4070 grow to be out there. Notably, the Gamescom commerce present takes place subsequent week, and we’re anticipating there to be a number of massive gaming tech bulletins, so this date would correspond effectively with that occasion.
There’s no indication of whether or not the brand new GDRR6 playing cards can be barely cheaper than the GDDR6X playing cards. Given the GDRR6 fashions are anticipated to have round 5% slower reminiscence efficiency, it could be a really disappointing transfer if Nvidia and its companions simply swapped out the reminiscence with out making any adjustments to the cardboard’s identify or worth.
Whereas we wait to seek out out simply what’s about to occur to the world’s provide of RTX 4070 playing cards, why not take a look at what we all know thus far about Nvidia’s subsequent technology of GPUs through our RTX 5090 information.
