What simply occurred? It appears to be like as if the rumors that Nvidia is ready to launch a collection of RTX 4000 Tremendous graphics playing cards are true. We beforehand heard that the brand new Lovelace variants can be unveiled at CES. Now, Crew Inexperienced has confirmed it will likely be internet hosting a Particular Handle on January 8, 8am PT / 11am ET, the place the Tremendous announcement is anticipated to happen.
Following the unique claims that Nvidia is engaged on three variants of Tremendous playing cards – the RTX 4080 Tremendous, RTX 4070 Tremendous, and RTX 4070 Ti Tremendous – leaker Kopite7kimi mentioned he believed an official launch would happen throughout CES.
Nvidia had already confirmed it could be at CES and has three convention rooms booked, however up till in the present day, it had not introduced any occasions or keynotes.
We now know {that a} Particular Handle is happening on January 8, in the future earlier than CES begins in earnest.
There is no such thing as a point out of the Tremendous collection in Nvidia’s announcement, however that does not imply they will not be there. At its particular tackle earlier than CES 2023, Nvidia’s head of PC enterprise, Jeff Fischer, introduced the RTX 4070 Ti (or tie) regardless of there being no affirmation of its arrival beforehand.
Early rumors claimed that the RTX 4080 Tremendous would use the AD102 GPU and include 20GB of reminiscence. However it’s extra more likely to function the less-powerful AD103-400 GPU with the total 10,240 cores and 16GB of GDDR6X VRAM alongside a 256-bit bus interface. There have additionally been claims that Nvidia will discontinue the RTX 4080 in favor of the Tremendous mannequin.
The RTX 4070 Tremendous, in the meantime, is anticipated to function AD104-350 or AD103-175 SKU configurations with the identical 7,168 cores in each variations. The 12 GB GDDR6X within the vanilla card is ready to stay unchanged, albeit with sooner reminiscence speeds.
Lastly, there’s the RTX 4070 Ti Tremendous. The least probably sounding of the three playing cards just lately had what’s claimed to be its packaging design leaked. Reviews state it is going to sit between the vanilla model of the cardboard and the RTX 4080, providing 8,448 CUDA cores, 48 MB of L2 cache, and use the AD103-275 or AD102-175 GPU. We’d additionally see the VRAM elevated to 16 GB from 12 GB, however that will be a shock at this level.
One other RTX 4000 Tremendous rumor claims that each one the brand new playing cards may have the identical or related TDP as their non-Tremendous variations.
There is no such thing as a phrase on pricing but, but when the claims that some present playing cards are being discontinued show to be true, then the costs for the Tremendous variants could be the identical as, or at the very least near, these of the usual variations. Hopefully, we’ll discover out extra on January 8.