NVIDIA has silently downgraded the GeForce RTX 4070, one of its most popular graphics cards. The midrange Ada Lovelace GPU competes with the Radeon RX 7800 XT and the 7900 GRE, falling short in most scenarios. Regardless, next to the RTX 4060, it’s the second-most popular 40-series SKU featuring 5888 shaders and 12 GB of GDDR6X memory across a 192-bit bus. Except, it doesn’t anymore.
Following GDDR6X memory shortages, NVIDIA has decided to replace the PAM4-based chips on its RTX 4070 with (slightly) slower, cheaper GDDR6 memory modules. The memory bandwidth will take a slight hit, dropping from 21 Gbps to 20 Gbps.
Granted, this 1 Gbps decrease won’t significantly impact gaming performance (especially at 1080p and 1440p), but it reduces the bang-for-buck aspect of an already pricey GPU. While the Radeon RX 7800 XT retails at $479, the RTX 4070 starts at $549 despite offering similar or lower framerates in most games.
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