Arrr, me mateys! Nvidia be settin' sail with a swift RTX 4070 Super that'd make the RTX 4080 GPU walk the plank!
2023-10-19
Arr, can Nvidia be stoppin' the ailin' RTX 4080? Nay, but a swift new RTX 4070 Super may be a means o' sort o' half-abandonin' the 4080, matey!
Nvidia is rumored to be working on a new graphics card, the RTX 4070 Super, which will be added to the existing lineup of RTX 4070 models. According to hardware leaker MEGAsizeGPU, there might be two new versions of the RTX 4070, one being a small refresh with GDDR6 video RAM and the other being the RTX 4070 Super with the AD103 chip and 16GB of VRAM.This is a significant shift as the current RTX 4070 models use the AD104 chip, which is a tier lower than the AD103. The use of the AD103 chip would allow Nvidia to give the RTX 4070 Super a 256-bit memory bus, improving its performance. However, there is speculation that the RTX 4070 Super may not have an increase in CUDA cores and could be inferior to the RTX 4070 Ti in some aspects.
The introduction of the RTX 4070 Super could potentially overshadow the RTX 4080, which has been reported to have poor sales. It could serve as a way for Nvidia to retire the RTX 4080 without officially canceling it. However, these are all rumors and speculations at this point, and nothing is certain.
Regardless, it seems like Nvidia has plans to release new versions of the RTX 4070 next year. The rumored refresh with GDDR6 video RAM could also offer a better value proposition for the graphics card. Only time will tell how these speculations will play out.