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GeForce RTX 4070: 186 W gaming consumption or 3080 performance for 3060 Ti consumption

On the server Videocardz there was a report that they have a screenshot of the company’s official presentation Nvidia to the upcoming graphics card GeForce RTX 4070. Although it looks a bit strange with several artifacts and very low image quality, it does reveal some interesting facts (if it is indeed genuine). On the image we see known data such as the presence of RT cores of the 3rd generation, Tensor cores of the 4th generation, DLSS support and HW acceleration of the AV1 codec. We also already know that the memory capacity will increase from 8 GB GDDR6 to 12 GB GDDR6X, while the memory bandwidth will also increase slightly from 448 GB/s to 504 GB/s despite narrowing the memory bus from 256 to 192 bits (because the clock speed increases by 50%). We also see the L2 cache increase from 4MB to 36MB.

But the interesting things are mainly in the other data. According to the presentation, the TGP of the card should be reduced from 220 W (for the RTX 3070) to 200 W, and the average game consumption should be reduced from 215 W to even 186 W. About 30 W down is certainly not bad news. When playing video, the consumption should go from 20 W to 16 W, and when idle, it should drop from 11 to 10 W. Again, we see that the price of the new RTX 4070 should reach $599, which is at the level of the former RTX 3070 Ti. Compared to the RTX 3070, the price should thus increase by 100 USD.

But these numbers also mean that the card’s performance should be roughly at the level of the RTX 3080, which has a similar raw performance (29 TFLOPS for the RTX 4070 versus 29.8-30.6 TFLOPS for the RTX 3080). But the main thing is that the RTX 3080 needs around 300-320 W for this performance, while the RTX 4070 should use 186 W, which is approximately 60% of its consumption. In other words, you get RTX 3080 performance for RTX 3060 Ti consumption.

BY: Milan Šurkala