News Nvidia RTX 4070 with slower GDDR6 memory is on the way, according to rumors

[-Fran-]

I was all prepared to make some snide comment towards nVidia about this but decided not to and just kept reading comments until I hit this one and the reason why is the same for both but obviously for different reasons...

For the 4080 and lower I doubt memory bandwidth (using slower gddr6x, not DDR like that 10 series card nVidia ) will make any difference at the resolutions a 4070 or below is designed to play at. At that point the core makes more of a difference therefore to ease supply issues and get hardware out to people... Acceptable. PLUS you can probably overclock mem by +800 to 1000 np. We are talking 1% here

And what is the point of "bringing it to more consumers" if the price is not even friendly towards their audience?

Also, the 4070 (and Super variants) have always been overpriced as hell. This is one good opportunity for nVidia to lower their price with a proper reason so they don't lose face, as they hate that.

EDIT: I think this is something I didn't mention explicitly as it may be important for context. I am talking about the 4060ti 16GB. That thing is an affront to nature.

Regards.

 

[vanadiel007]

AMD cards, plenty of VRAM but not enough ray tracing power to use it.

Not everything centers around ray tracing. For some reason it's being hyped as a must have feature when honestly it's a big negative effect for performance, even on a 4080 or 4090 with current hardware.

I would much rather see other technologies that provide reduced lag, increase performance etc... Ray tracing is the least of my needs to be honest.