Shrinkflation is hitting Nvidia’s RTX 4070 graphics card

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The important things that actually annoys me, however, is that the rate for the newer, somewhat slower cards isn’t charging. Nvidia says it’s making the adjustment “to enhance supply and availability to fulfill strong demand,” according to 2 paragraphs buried in a press release about Black Myth Wukong and Star Wars Outlaws. Nvidia appears to be streamlining its supply chain for somewhat better efficiency … however that’s a benefit for Nvidia and its suppliers, except us customers.

So, the final impacts on performance for the brand-new version versus the old one will certainly be minimal. GPU suppliers aren’t even upgrading their SKUs, though they are marking the new one with a “GDDR6” label. If you’re particularly searching for GDDR6X memory, as will certainly still be made use of on extra pricey Nvidia cards, you could be in awhile of a retail hunt.

That switch is a little less significant than it might seem. Regardless of the older and slower memory requirement, the brand-new RTX 4070 version will only lose regarding 5 percent of its memory transmission capacity. That brings the memory speed up below 21Gbps to 20Gbps, according to VideoCardz.com.