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Gigabyte Will Have at Least Four GeForce RTX 4070 SKUs

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Based on a leak courtesy of @momomo_us on Twitter, we now know that Gigabyte will be launching at least four different NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 based SKUs next week. Although the leaker only posted a single image of all four cards seen from the edge, it still gives us an idea of what to expect. The leaker also confirmed a rumour, that there will be two different types of GeForce RTX 4070 cards, namely those with a single 8-pin power connector and those with the 16-pin 12VHPWR PCIe 5.0 connector.

Gigabyte's four SKUs start with the Eagle and Windforce as the more budget friendly options, with the Eagle being the one we'd expect that will sell for the rumoured US$599.99 MSRP. Both of these cards obviously have the 8-pin power connector and seemingly a more basic heatsink compared to the other two cards. The higher-end models include the Gaming and Aero cards, both with 16-pin power connectors and a beefier heatsink with more heatpipes. It's unclear if we'll see a higher-end Aorus branded SKU or not at this point in time, but Gigabyte might forgo it to try to avoid making an overly expensive card that won't sell, considering that the 4070 is still largely an upper mid-range card.





Update 14:38 UTC: According to another post on Twitter, this time by @harukaze5719, it would appear that there is indeed an Aorus model coming as well, on top of at least what appears to be a specific model for the Korean market. This is according to information provided by a certification database belonging to the Korean National Radio Research Agency, or the Korean equivalent to the FCC.



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You know, just think of all the money wasted on engineering and marketing multiple SKUs of the same GPU.

No wonder these companies cant make money.
 
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At least 2 have 8 pin power connectors for all those who can't properly plug in a 16 pin lol
 

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3 junks and 1 okaish model.
It's at least five in total now, with the additional Aorus model that we know nothing about except the model name.

At least 2 have 8 pin power connectors for all those who can't properly plug in a 16 pin lol
The downside, based on the rumours, is that there won't be as much headroom for boost clocks on those cards.
 
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The downside, based on the rumours, is that there won't be as much headroom for boost clocks on those cards.

Eh, it'll likely only be the $599 usd models people who buy the bargain bin models likely won't care.

Although I can't wait for the prople who brick them trying to flash a higher power limit bios for that sweet extra 5% performance come crying on this forum.
 
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You know, just think of all the money wasted on engineering and marketing multiple SKUs of the same GPU.

No wonder these companies cant make money.

Ehhhhh.... you may have a point today, but in years-gone-by it made a lot of sense. (Also 'white' and 'bright silver' cards can demand a premium, even if there's nothing else special about it; simply, because it's 'niche')

eVGA used to have something like 7 SKUs each for their cards.
Why? Primarily, Binning.
Silicon that could be (say...) a reference-spec GeForce 6800Ultra might end up in a 6800GT SuperClocked, or a particularly well-clocking example might end up a limited-run halo tier card.

The downside, based on the rumours, is that there won't be as much headroom for boost clocks on those cards.
It doesn't help that 6-pin PCIe is actually 4 current carrying conductors, and 8-pin, 6; and that PCI-SIG doesn't allow cards to 'use' the conductors reserved for sense/presence.

I'm kind of at a loss for why nVidia decided to go with that crazy new 12VO-derived cable, instead of the EPS connector they already used on their GPGPUs/MI Accelerators. Every problem that could come up using a similar-looking connector, kinda ended up happening another way w/ the new plug...
 
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Very disrespectful for the facts. The cards aren't the same length as the image shows. So i bought the new cable for nothing. Thanks gigabyte.
 
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Two different sku's with the 8 pin makes no sense, although if the rumors are true, Nvidia doesn't want AIB's to make any profit especially at MSRP.
 
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