Given the rousing flop that was Nvidia’s tried 12GB RTX 4080 (opens in new tab) I used to be foolishly hoping the upcoming 4070 Ti can be a shining gentle for the model’s GPU providing. If these playing cards got here in at a pleasant price-point, they could possibly be an ideal selection for upcoming builds. However after seeing the costs projected by Chinese language shops, any optimism I had has largely been dashed. In case you’re glad to pay about the identical quantity Nvidia was planning on hawking these aforementioned 12GB 4080s for, then I assume you are in luck.
In line with VideoCardz (opens in new tab), some Chinese language retailers have begun taking preorders for the upcoming 4070 Ti playing cards giving us a glance into the potential pricing for the items. These do range a bunch, particularly because the Chinese language market tends to deal with customized playing cards, however it nonetheless delivers a sign that the costs on these playing cards are going to be too damned excessive.
The most cost effective providing reported on is the Inno3D RTX 4070 Ti X3 which goes for 7199 RMB or about $1034 USD. Given 4080 playing cards are fairly generally round $1,200 USD in North American shops, this does not precisely bode nicely.
Inno3D can be the proud proprietor of the most costly card on the record, the Inno3D RTX 4070 Ti iChill which sits at 8399 RMB or $1,206 USD. It is exhausting to think about certainly one of these being well worth the selection over a straight 4080. We’ll little doubt have a play with certainly one of these playing cards once we can get our palms on them, however I would be shocked if benchmarking went in favour of the 4070 Ti in that matchup.
Different playing cards within the line-up embrace a couple of choices from Gigabyte. The Gigabyte RTX 4070 Ti Eagle, Gaming OC, AORUS Elite, and AORUS Grasp are all there, sitting in between the value ranges of about $1,070 and $1,175. There is no signal of the Aero we acquired a have a look at final week (opens in new tab), however it’s seemingly it will fall someplace in that vary too. Nonetheless, at these costs I do not suppose any of those are playing cards we’ll be dashing out to suggest.
We’ll seemingly see these playing cards on show at CES with a launch on January 5, however except Nvidia has some large surprises on the value entrance there’s not a lot to get enthusiastic about. Coming in on the similar value that these 12GB 4080s have been slated for is a reasonably large ooff in my books.
