Simply final week, rumors emerged of Nvidia engaged on a brand new variant of the RTX 4070 that makes use of barely slower GDDR6 reminiscence, as an alternative of the standard GDDR6X. Now, a brand new rumor suggests these new Nvidia RTX 4070 GDDR6 playing cards could possibly be showing on store cabinets as quickly as subsequent week.
The transfer to barely change the VRAM configuration of probably the greatest graphics card choices you should buy proper now could be a seemingly unusual one however has apparently been pressured by a scarcity of GDDR6X RAM. As such, Nvidia and its companions have apparently needed to work on an answer that permits for certainly one of its extra inexpensive and standard playing cards to proceed being bought.
Given simply how just lately the RTX 4070 GDDR6 story broke, it’s stunning to see simply how rapidly we might discover the brand new playing cards on store cabinets. A minimum of that’s if the report from Taiwanese tech website, Board Channels, is to be believed.
Particularly, the (machine translated) report states that “the RTX4070 […] could also be in brief provide till no less than the twentieth. The brand new provide of RTX4070 GDDR6 reminiscence will most likely arrive after the twentieth, and the availability might progressively ease.”
Not solely is the usage of the phrase “most likely” indicative of how speculative this report is however the normal speak right here is of provide, which might seek advice from the availability of the playing cards arriving in outlets however might additionally imply the availability of the reminiscence to the cardboard producers, wherein case it could possibly be a very long time earlier than these merchandise are shipped around the globe.
Nonetheless, it’s attainable that as quickly as subsequent week we might see new variations of the RTX 4070 turn out to be out there. Notably, the Gamescom commerce present takes place subsequent week, and we’re anticipating there to be a number of huge gaming tech bulletins, so this date would correspond properly with that occasion.
There’s no indication of whether or not the brand new GDRR6 playing cards can be barely cheaper than the GDDR6X playing cards. Given the GDRR6 fashions are anticipated to have round 5% slower reminiscence efficiency, it might be a really disappointing transfer if Nvidia and its companions simply swapped out the reminiscence with out making any modifications to the cardboard’s identify or value.
Whereas we wait to seek out out simply what’s about to occur to the world’s provide of RTX 4070 playing cards, why not take a look at what we all know up to now about Nvidia’s subsequent technology of GPUs through our RTX 5090 information.
