NEW GEFORCE CARDS THIS SPRINGS
Nvidia’s mid-range cards finally ready
WE’VE BEEN WAITING for Nvidia’s to flesh out its 4000-series cards for a while, but details are starting to land. The first to arrive is the GeForce RTX 4070, which according to a leak is April 13 (this should be confirmed by the time you read this). It uses the same AD104 silicon as the 4070 Ti, but cut down to 5,888 CUDA cores running at up to 2.475GHz. It carries 12GB of GDDR6 on a 192-bit bus offering a maximum data transfer of 504GB/s. All this will cost $599. The premium factory versions will be 225W cards, and use either the new 16-pin power connector, or two 8-pin ones. The standard cards will run at 200W, and stick to 8-pin connectors.
Next down the tree is the RTX 4060 Ti, due in May. The 160W card will sport a cutdown AD106 GPU with 4,352 CUDA cores coupled to 8GB of memory sitting on a 128bit bus. The performance target is the old RTX 3070. The price is speculative, but if you were to guess $449 you wouldn’t be far wrong. Leaked pictures purportedly showing a 4060 Ti have surfaced, and it’s svelte compared to the high-end cards.
Then we have the RTX 4050, set for June. This is in the mid-range, with 2,560 CUDA cores with 6GB of RAM and a 96bit bus. A price of $249 has surfaced, for which ch we can almost forgive the uninspiring ng specifications. Other rumors put it at up to $349, which we are less forgiving about, as it is going to struggle to play top-tier tier games at 1080p. This leaves the RTX 4060, but we’ve no o release date yet. . This is expected to run a full AD107 GPU PU with 3,072 cores. At 115W it might appear lightweight, ghtweight, but it’s going g to perform similarly to the 4060 laptop GPU, PU, only with faster memory, emory, so it’ll be comparable parable with a 3060 Ti. This could be the range’s ge’s sweet spot for 1080p p gaming.