Nvidia RTX 4070 specs: price, performance, size, and release date

40 series cards that don’t need a big case

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  Cameron Faulkner
  

• upon April 12, 2023 at 9:54 AM

Nvidia has announced the GeForce RTX 4070 desktop GPU. This is the move that anyone holding off on his DIY PC build of the new midrange has been waiting for. This puts the company’s impressive Ada Lovelace graphics architecture within reach for those who don’t want to spend his $1,000+ on a giant graphics card.

Available tomorrow April 13th, starting at $599 for Nvidia’s Founders Edition Single Fan model. As usual, other manufacturers such as Asus, Zotac, Gigabyte and MSI have also put out factory overclocked variants.

The RTX 4070 Founders Edition card requires a 650 W power supply and connects via two PCIe 8-pin cables (adapter included). Alternatively, you can connect via a PCIe Gen 5 cable that supports over 300W. The RTX 4070 is a 2-slot card that is significantly smaller than the RTX 4080, so it doesn’t need a huge case. At 9.6 inches long and 4.4 inches wide, it’s about the same size as my RTX 3070 Ti Founders. edition card.

Despite being a lower-end GPU compared to Nvidia’s RTX 4080 or RTX 4090, it still retains the DLSS 3 marquee selling point. This is the next iteration of Nvidia’s upscaling technology, which uses the GPU’s AI cores to intelligently upscale what you see by lowering the rendering resolution for better game execution. Ultimately, DLSS will allow you to run graphics-intensive settings like ray tracing without your PC buckling in your knees. Also, in DLSS 3, the GPU uses frame generation to insert frames that would otherwise not exist, providing even faster performance than DLSS 2 without any performance hit.

Nvidia is targeting a resolution of 1440p (also known as QHD) on the RTX 4070, claiming that all games can run at maximum graphics settings. Given the influx of gorgeous 1440p OLED gaming monitors seen at CES 2023 from the likes of LG, Asus and Acer, this could be the best card to get your hands on. , but games and Windows interfaces look great at 1440p.

To increase the value of this card and its RTX 4070 Ti, 4080, and 4090 cards, Nvidia has overwatch 2 Earn the Ultimate Battle Pass with any purchase before May 8, 2023. You’ll also get 1,000 Overwatch 2 coins worth $40.

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