Out Goes GDDR6X, In Goes GDDR6

It’s been over a year since NVIDIA introduced its Ada Lovelace GPUs, and since then, the lineup has seen various additions with the most recent one being the “SUPER” series which introduced brand new variants in the lineup while replacing the older Non-SUPER models. One of the cards that was still kept in the lineup is the GeForce RTX 4070 and despite its “SUPER” variant offering a nice boost in performance, the 4070 still exists in the current stack owing to its popular demand, mostly due to its price point in the $500 US range.

NVIDIA has periodically said that the GeForce RTX 4070 has seen good demand however, the card faced severe production and supply issues due to a lack of GDDR6X memory chips recently. GDDR6X is being used across the high-end lineup starting with the RTX 4070 and considering that the card is the most in-demand currently out of the entire high-end “Ada” batch, the company decided to opt for GDDR6 chips instead of GDDR6X.

As such, several NVIDIA partners have introduced their new GDDR6 variants of the GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER which are now being made available in the market places so we decided to test one out to see if there are any major differences between the two models.

NVIDIA GeForce GPU Segment/Tier Prices

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 Gaming Graphics Cards

Turing wasn’t just any graphics core, it was the graphics core that was to become the foundation of future GPUs. The future is realized now with next-generation consoles going deep in talks about ray tracing and AI-assisted super-sampling techniques. NVIDIA had a head start with Turing & Ampere and its Ada generation will only do things infinitely times better.

The Ada GPU does many traditional things which we would expect from a GPU, but at the same time, also breaks the barrier when it comes to nontraditional GPU operations. Just to sum up some features:

• New Streaming Multiprocessor (SM)
• New Turing Tensor Cores
• New Real-Time Ray Tracing Acceleration
• New Shading Enhancements
• New Deep Learning Features For Graphics & Inference
• New GDDR6X High-Performance Memory Subsystem
• New HDMI 2.1 Display Engine & Next-Gen NVENC/NVDEC

The technologies mentioned above are some of the main building blocks of the Ada GPU, but there’s more within the graphics core itself which we will talk about in detail so let’s get started.