NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 4070 Ti graphics cards don’t go live until the first week of January, but a Serbian store is already selling them to buyers.
The Serbian store is already selling NVIDIA’s upcoming GeForce RTX 4070 Ti graphics cards for 1400 USD
The graphics card being listed by this Serbian retailer is the Gigabyte GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Gaming variant which comes with a triple slot and triple fan solution. This card is priced at 172,229 RSD which includes VAT and converts to around $1,550 USD. The retailer is also offering a small 10% discount to users who pay cash and drops the price to $1,400.
This is still well above the MSRP of even the RTX 4080 but the Serbian Redditor explains why this is. It is mentioned that Serbia has a double monopoly on the technology market along with greedy merchants and customs who charge heavy duties and taxes on technical products. The RTX 4080 retails for $1,700 (+$500 MSRP) while the RTX 4090 sells for at least $2,500 (+$900 MSRP). So this price is nowhere near the MSRP which should be less than a thousand dollars when the actual retail ban is lifted.
Serbia is not the only place where NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti is sold. MSI GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Gaming X Trio graphics cards are also available in retail stores in Costa Rica ready for sale on launch date. The graphics cards are said to be up for pre-orders but there is currently no word on pricing, but users expect these to also be above MSRP.
“Official” NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti 12GB Specifications
The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti will use an “Ada Lovelace” AD104-400 GPU configuration with 7680 cores or 60 SMs enabled which is a full fat SKU. The GPU will pack 48MB of L2 cache and feature a 192-bit bus interface, which is why we get up to 12GB of GDDR6X capacities. The memory is said to run at 21Gbps for a memory bandwidth of 504GB/s. The card is said to be clocked at 2610MHz but the peak frequency will be higher.
- “Official” NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti 12GB Graphics Card TBP – 285 watts
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 8GB TBP “Official” – 290 watts
In terms of power, the TBP is now set to be rated at 285W which is a 35W drop versus the RTX 3080 10GB model and a 5W drop from the RTX 3070 Ti. The new graphics card is expected to perform better than the RTX 3080, but looking at specs beyond the 4080 16GB, there will be a significant gap between both models of about 30-40%.
In terms of power, the TBP is now set to be rated at 285W which is a 35W drop versus the RTX 3080 10GB model and a 5W drop from the RTX 3070 Ti. The new graphics card is expected to perform better than the RTX 3080, but looking at specs beyond the 4080 16GB, there will be a significant gap between both models of about 30-40%.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 Series Official Specifications:
| Graphics card name | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti graphics card |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPU name | Ada Lovelace AD102-300 | Ada Lovelace AD103-300 | Ada Lovelace AD104-400 |
| process node | TSMC4N | TSMC4N | TSMC4N |
| die size | 608 mm2 | 378.6 mm2 | 294.5 mm2 |
| transistors | 76 billion | 45.9 billion | 35.8 billion |
| CUDA cores | 16384 | 9728 | 7680 |
| TMUs/ROPs | 512/176 | 320/112 | 240/80 |
| Strained/RT cores | 512/128 | 304/76 | 240/60 |
| base clock | 2230 MHz | 2210 MHz | 2310 MHz |
| clock increase | 2520 MHz | 2510 MHz | 2610 MHz |
| FP32 account | 83 TFLOPs | 49 TFLOPs | 40 TFLOPs |
| RTFLOPs | 191 TFLOPs | 113 TFLOPs | 82 TFLOPs |
| Tensor-TOPs | 1321 Top | 780 peaks | 641 top |
| memory capacity | 24 GB GDDR6X | 16 GB GDDR6X | 12 GB GDDR6X |
| memory bus | 384 bits | 256 bits | 192 bits |
| memory speed | 21.0 Gbps | 23.0 Gbps | 21.0 Gbps |
| bandwidth | 1008 GB / s | 736 GB / s | 504 GB / s |
| TBP | 450 watts | 320 watts | 285 watts |
| Price (MSRP/FE) | $1,599 USD / 1,949 EU | $1,199 / $1,469 | to be announced later on |
| price (current) | $1,599 USD / 1,859 EC | $1199 / $1399 AU | to be announced later on |
| launch (availability) | October 12, 2022 | November 16, 2022 | January 5, 2023 |
news source: Sebastian Castellanos