NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 4070 is based on a scaled-down AD104 Ada Lovelace-based GPU, but still offers all of the features of its higher-end siblings.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070: Starting At $599The new GeForce RTX 4070 leverages the same Ada Lovelace architecture as NVIDIA’s higher-end cards, but with a scaled down GPU to target lower price points and more compact form factors.Low PowerLowest Priced Ada YetGood PerformanceSmall Form FactorCool And QuietMinimal OverclockingOnly DP 1.4
NVIDIA is expanding its family of Ada Lovelace-based GPUs today, with the new GeForce RTX 4070. As its name implies, the GeForce RTX 4070 slots into NVIDIA’s product stack just behind the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti. The two cards leverage the same slice of silicon – configured differently, of course – but target different market segments and price points, and NVIDIA is taking a somewhat different approach with this launch. Whereas the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti was brought to market solely by OEM board partners, there will be an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Founders Edition, in addition to custom designs from numerous brands.
In fact, we’ve got two GeForce RTX 4070 cards to show you here today, the aforementioned NVIDIA Founders Edition and an MSI GeForce RTX 4070 Ventus 3X. Let’s get some particulars out of the way to set the stage, and then we’ll take a close look at the cards and see how they perform. So, without further delay…GeForce RTX 4070 Features & SpecificationsFind GeForce RTX 4070 Cards @ Amazon
Although they leverage the same Ada Lovelace GPU architecture, all of the previously-launched cards in the GeForce RTX 40 series were built using different chips. The flagship RTX 4090 is built around the large AD102 GPU, the GeForce RTX 4080 uses the smaller (but still large) AD103, and the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti uses the smaller still AD104. With today’s launch though, NVIDIA is scaling the AD104 down a bit further for the RTX 4070.Full-Featured AD104 (Back), GeForce RTX 4070 Note The Different NVENC / NCDEC Configs
In terms of feature support, the AD104 is identical to the larger AD102 and AD103. All of the GPUs offer the entirety of features inherent to the Ada Lovelace architecture, like DLSS 3 and other NVIDIA technologies like NVIDIA Reflex latency reduction, NVIDIA Broadcast, Ansel, G-SYNC, Omniverse, optional Studio drivers, and GeForce Experience, to name just a few. For a more detailed explanation of the GPU architecture, we suggest reading this article and checking out our launch coverage of the GeForce RTX 4090 while you’re here. There’s lots of foundational information in those two pieces.
In comparison to its larger cousins, however, the AD104 as configured on the RTX 4070 is scaled down in a few key ways…
The AD102 on the RTX 4090 has 11 GPCs, 64 TPCs, 16,384 CUDA cores, 512 Tensor cores, and 128 RT cores, with a 384-bit memory interface. The smaller AD103 has 7 GPCs, 38 TPCs, 9,728 CUDA cores, 304 Tensor cores, and 76 RT cores, with a 256-bit memory interface.
