NVIDIA suddenly announced in mid-October that it would not launch RTX 4080 12GBAlthough the official answer at the time was that it was easy for players to confuse (there are 16GB and 12GB), the same model has been launched with two memory versions many times in the past. No one should find it strange, so everyone is guessing that it must be paving the way for the RTX 4070 Ti. Sure enough, a foreign graphics card manufacturer recently confirmed this.
Foreign graphics card manufacturers confirm that RTX 4070 Ti is renamed from 4080 12GB, and the specifications are the same
According to VideoCardz, earlier Chinese graphics card manufacturer Colorful quietly listed an RTX 4070 Ti BattleAx Deluxe graphics card on its official website. Although the product page has been deleted, foreign media have also backed up screenshots. The picture below shows the appearance of the RTX 4070 Ti BattleAx Deluxe. The outer box does say RTX 4070 Ti, and the VRAM memory is also 12GB:
The most important thing is the picture below. The specification sheet shows that GeForce RTX 4070 Ti is the same as RTX 4080 12GB, such as based on AD104 GPU, equipped with 12GB GDDR6X, base clock is 2310MHz, memory interface bandwidth 192bit, TDP power consumption 285W, etc.:
RTX 4070 Ti BattleAx Deluxe graphics card features:
The report also mentioned that most of Colorful’s BattleAx Deluxe series have the same specifications as NVIDIA’s reference specifications, which means that the RTX 4070 Ti should be like this, exactly the same as the RTX 4080 12GB.
It is a pity that the number of CUDA cores is not written in the specification sheet, but since other specifications are the same as the RTX 4080 12GB, it may be 7680 CUDA cores. The RX 4070 Ti is expected to be released at the CES2023 event, which is about a month away. I just hope that the price will not disappoint. Don’t be like the RTX 4080 16GB and RTX 3060 8GB Same, set this high:
Speaking of RTX 4080 16GB,Chinese media MyDrives Kuai TechnologyThe report mentioned that NVIDIA seems to be intending to lower the price of this graphics card in mid-December to compete with AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX. However, the source also emphasized that it is not afraid of the RX 7900 series (laughs), but is just an appropriate price reduction to increase the CP value and stimulate sales:
In addition, the supply of RTX 4080 will increase in the future, and may be four or five times that of RTX 4090. This is a bit unbelievable, because the current sales of RTX 4080 are very poor, even worse than RTX 4090. The main reason is the price, and it is really bold to plan to increase the supply before the price is reduced, unless the price reduction will make most players excited.
NVIDIA 4080 shipment units:
🟢30,000
NVIDIA 4090 shipment units:
🟢130,000
Total RTX 40 shipment units:
🟢160,000
NVIDIA's 4090 was pretty much sold out at launch.
Retailers still have 4080 in stock. 😶🌫️😶🌫️
— Hassan Mujtaba (@hms1193) November 19, 2022
In short, if you are planning to buy a graphics card recently, I suggest you wait until AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX is launched and see if NVIDIA takes any action before making a decision.
Source: KOCPC Chinese