NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti to replace canceled RTX 4080 12GB SKU, launch in January

NVIDIA RTX 4080 12GB now to be called RTX 4070 Ti

As expected, NVIDIA is changing the name of the ‘unlaunched’ GPU.

More than three weeks after NVIDIA announced the change of plans for the RTX 4080 product family, the company has reportedly now confirmed the new name for the RTX 4080 12GB SKU. According to hardware leaker Kopite7kimi, the new name is actually the old name of RTX 4070 Ti. It is old because it did appear in a rumor under one of the proposes pre-launch specs.

The 4070 Ti SKU name was to be expected for many reasons, mainly because the non-Ti variant would probably have to be cut-down from original specs, while the former 4080 12GB specs featured a full AD104 GPU. Such configuration is often associated with Ti variants.

This new RTX 4070 Ti is expected to feature identical specifications, which means 7680 CUDA cores and 12GB of GDDR6X memory. What remains to be confirmed is the pricing. This should be much noticeably lower, given the massive performance gap between RTX 4080 12GB and 16GB variants (24% to 30%).

According to Kopite, the RTX 4070 Ti should launch next year, possibly in January.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 Series Specs
VideoCardz.com	GeForce RTX 4090	GeForce RTX 4080	GeForce RTX 4070 Ti
Founders Edition
Board-SKU	PG136-SKU330	PG136-SKU360	PG141-SKU331
Architecture	Ada (TSMC 4N)	Ada (TSMC 4N)	Ada (TSMC 4N)
GPU	AD102-300	AD103-300	AD104-400
SMs	128	76	60
CUDA Cores	16384	9728	7680
Boost Clock	2.5 GHz	2.5 GHz	2.6 GHz
Memory	24 GB G6X	16 GB G6X	12 GB G6X
Memory Bus	384-bit	256-bit	192-bit
Memory Speed	21 Gbps	22.4 Gbps	21 Gbps
Bandwidth	1008 GB/s	736 GB/s	504 GB/s
Default TGP	450W	320W	285W
MSRP	1599 USD	1199 USD	TBC
Release Date	October 12th, 2022	November 16h, 2022	January 2023 ?

Source: Kopite7kimi