Nvidia Unveiled RTX 4070 For $599
Nvidia has officially unveiled the new RTX 4070 graphics card for $599. This is the price of the Founders Edition, custom models may cost more. On sale “piece of iron” will be April 13.
The new graphics architecture has received many improvements: RT cores with higher peak performance and additional hardware features Opacity Micromap and Displaced Micro-Mesh, which speed up the tracing of translucent geometry and use micro-triangles to achieve greater geometric complexity. The most important change is the changeable order of shader calculations Shader Execution Reordering, which in theory can give a decent performance boost when ray tracing.
The graphics card is designed for 2560×1440 resolution at maximum graphics settings, including ray tracing, as well as for 4K resolution when using DLSS technology. As usual, with the release of a new graphics card model, Nvidia suggests that it can be a good option for upgrading the video system for owners of older hardware. According to their idea, the GeForce RTX 4070 is well suited to replace such video cards of the past as the GTX 1080 and RTX 2070. The second one also supports hardware ray tracing, but only at a rudimentary level – since then, performance requirements have increased markedly, and even the presence of the latest generation RT blocks and tensor cores in the RTX 4070 change a lot. Accelerated ray tracing and DLSS 3 performance enhancement technology together can provide acceptable gaming comfort at rendering speeds on par with the RTX 3080, but with less power consumption than even the RTX 3070.
The Verge tested the new graphics card and concluded that it delivers performance on par with the RTX 3080 at 1440p, but falls short at 4K.
