Friday, September 6th 2024
ASUS Launches GeForce RTX 4070 with GDDR6 Memory
ASUS became the first NVIDIA add-in card partner to debut a GeForce RTX 4070 graphics card with GDDR6 memory, away from its original memory type of GDDR6X. The RTX 4070 originally comes with 12 GB of 21 Gbps GDDR6X memory, yielding 504 GB/s of memory bandwidth. This ASUS card (which we hope is part of a larger refresh by NVIDIA to reduce costs of the RTX 4070), uses GDDR6 of a yet-unspecified speed. You do have 21 Gbps GDDR6 (non-X) in the market, but we imagine these to be expensive, which leaves NVIDIA with the 20 Gbps GDDR6 chip that's more readily available (which AMD uses in its RDNA 3 graphics cards), and 18 Gbps GDDR6 that the company itself uses in cards such as the RTX 4060 Ti. Any reduction in memory bandwidth would have to be compensated with increase in GPU clocks, but we don't see that happening here—the regular variant of the ASUS DUAL RTX 4070 GDDR6 EVO comes with the reference 2475 MHz maximum boost speed, while the DUAL OC variant only slightly cranks this up to 2520 MHz.
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19 Comments on ASUS Launches GeForce RTX 4070 with GDDR6 Memory
A straight 5% performance drop would make this product slimy as hell, but I can't say I expect it, if it's 1-2% it's still slimy for the bait and switch, but talking margin of error for silicon lottery and sample variance.
Or the great 7600 XT, 16GB scam card that runs out of compute power long before it runs out of even the original 8GB of memory. But now you get to say you have more memory for “only” a 20% price increase.
You're joking right?
This reveals a fundamental, basic misunderstanding of how computers work.
If the memory is too slow for the GPU to access then making the GPU even faster serves no purpose. You've got this exactly BACKWARDS.
I've tested this myself. So price aside (I have no idea) you're just wrong on the facts about VRAM.
As for the 6950XT it offered an average 6% boost for a 15% cost increase (was about $1100USD). That's actually not out of line at the high end.
There are examples of bad cards, such as 8GB cards in 2024 that cost too much and have issues with modern games due to lack of VRAM. It's almost like people buy them not knowing that's a problem even at the level of RX-7600XT but I know nobody here would think that....
Or, is/are AMD/AIBs planning to release a further stripped down Navi31XL? -12GB, 192-bit, 4608shader, 7900M/7900GREcutdown on a 7700's PCB?
(7700XTX? 7800GTO? 7900XL?)
(UPDATE: I apologize if the response was to the guy that I responded to, but it shows up as responding to me)
If responding to ME:
That's literally the OPPOSITE of what I said. Can you not read?