Oops! Leaked RTX 4070 and 4060 GPUs spoil Nvidias party

Date:
Tue, 21 Mar 2023 11:55:08 +0000

Description:
RTX 4070 and 4060 leaks suggest Nvidia has finally remembered regular PC gamers exist.

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Oops it looks like Gigabyte might have just spoiled a big surprise from Nvidia, with the third party GPU manufacturer accidentally leaking two new graphics cards: the Gigabyte RTX 4070 AERO OC 12GB and Gigabyte RTX 4060 GAMING OC 8GB.

The timing isnt great (not that leaks are ever well timed), as Nvidias GTC (GPU Technology Conference) is currently taking place. While Nvidia would rather we concentrated on news coming out of the conference regarding its AI advancements and enterprise-grade technology, the latest hints that we could finally be getting more affordable consumer cards could overshadow much of what Team Green shows.

As Videocardz reports , references to GV-N4070AERO OC-12G and GV-N4060GAMING OC-8GD products have been spotted in the latest version of the Gigabyte Control Center software, which is used for things like monitoring and overclocking GPUs and configuring RGB lighting.

Unlike some manufacturers, Gigabytes internal product naming conventions
means its relatively easy to decipher what GPUs they could be referring to:
an RTX 4070 with 12GB of memory and an RTX 4060 with 8GB. Bad news for
Nvidia, good news for gamers (Image credit: Parilov / Shutterstock)

This leak looks pretty conclusive, and its a slip up that could annoy Nvidia, which has yet to officially announce the RTX 4070 or RTX 4060. While I wasnt expecting Nvidia to announce either GPU at GTC, due to the conferences focus on AI and enterprise-level computing, leaks like this threaten to undermine any launch plans Nvidia might be cooking up.

Videocardz claims it has information that the RTX 4070 will be announced on April 12, but doesnt have similar info on the RTX 4060.

While this leak may be bad news for Nvidia, as it may have wanted to keep these GPUs as a big surprise, its pretty good news for gamers.

So far, Nvidia has only released expensive, high-end, desktop GPUs in its latest 40 series Ada Lovelace lineup: the RTX 4090 , RTX 4080 , and RTX
4070 Ti . While these are some of the best graphics cards ever made, not everyone can afford (or needs) such powerful GPUs.

For many PC gamers on a budget, it began to feel like Nvidia had forgotten about them. Neglecting a big part of the market is never a good idea, no matter how solid your position as market leader is, and rivals AMD and Intel were more than happy to swoop in with affordable graphics cards .

While Nvidia has released more mainstream and affordable RTX 40 series mobile GPUs for laptops , that wasnt much use for desktop gamers looking to upgrade their rigs.

So, its great to see that Nvidia may be planning to finally release
affordable GPUs again although, without an official announcement, we currently dont know what prices theyll launch up. Id have once said that Nvidia isnt foolish enough to launch these GPUs at much higher prices than their RTX 30 series counterparts, but Team Green has been making some weird decisions recently , so I wont get too excited until I hear official prices.



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Link to news story: https://www.techradar.com/news/oops-leaked-rtx-4070-and-4060-gpus-spoil-nvidia s-party


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