Announcing one of the features it will bring to the long-awaited Counter-Strike 2, Nvidia let slip “unintentionally” that the GeForce RTX 4070 may soon arrive on desktops. Already available on notebooks, the intermediate model of the Ada Lovelace family had not yet been confirmed by the giant to debut on desktop PCs, but the announcement, added to multiple leaks in recent days, suggests that the solution may be very close to debut.
Valve’s latest big announcement, Counter-Strike 2 (or CS 2) arrives as a free upgrade for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) owners mid-year. Despite being free, the update is big: the developer that owns Steam will migrate the popular shooting game from the Source graphics engine to Source 2, even used in titles like Portal 2, which will bring numerous visual improvements, including volumetric smoke that Reacts to gunfire and revamped lighting, and gameplay.
As part of the upgrade, the company worked with Nvidia to implement Reflex, the green team’s technology that reduces latency (the delay a player’s command takes before it appears on the screen) by assessing PC performance and latency of peripherals (mouse, monitor, keyboard). To demonstrate the advances provided by the feature, Nvidia released a slide on its official blog that compares the delays recorded on some machines with intermediate settings.
As first noted by The Verge, in addition to the promising numbers, the slide in question has one more very interesting piece of information: the confirmation that the RTX 4070 should soon arrive on desktops — already available on laptops, the intermediate GPU had not been confirmed by the giant to reach PCs of table, at least for now. The footnote reinforces the scenario, which makes it clear that the tests were carried out on a desktop equipped with an Intel Core i9 12900K CPU.
Although it is not a surprise, the fact that the plate is already mentioned in official materials gives impetus to recent rumors and leaks, especially considering that the post was removed from the air by the giant. That said, if the leaked information is confirmed, the publication should be restored in the next few days.
RTX 4070 could debut next week
Gathering what rumors and leaks have pointed out, the Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 should reach desktops in more robust configurations than its variant for notebooks, but without bringing significant changes compared to the RTX 3070, at least by looking at its technical sheet. Equipped with the AD104-250 chip, the board would ship the same 46 Streaming Multiprocessors (SMs) as its predecessor, thus having 5,888 CUDA cores, 46 RT Cores for Ray Tracing and 184 Tensor Cores for DLSS and other AI resources.
On the other hand, we would have the significant advances in efficiency of the new Ada Lovelace architecture, which would result in an 8% drop in consumption (200 W, against 216 W of the RTX 3070) and an impressive increase of 9 times in the amount of L2 cache (36 MB, versus 4 MB in the last generation), which means more data will be kept closer to the cores, improving performance.
Another welcome addition is the memory, which would now reach 12 GB GDDR6X, operating at a speed of 21 Gbps, on a 192-bit interface, to deliver 504 GB/s of bandwidth, an increase of 12.5% . In leaked tests, such as those from Geekbench 5, the RTX 4070 shows gains of 25% to 30% compared to the RTX 3070, which would practically put it on the same level as the RTX 3080, but with consumption almost 40% lower — the 3080 reached 320 W.
Also according to the information, the new mid-board of the RTX 4000 family could debut as early as this week, on April 13, with reviews going live the day before, on April 12.
Source: Nvidia, via The Verge
