Massively-increased RTX 4070 clock speeds could see the card boost 43% more than the RTX 3070

According to previous rumors, the desktop RTX 4070 will come with 5,888 CUDA cores, 12 GB of GDDR6X VRAM, a 192-bit bus, and a 200 W TGP. However, details about the board’s clock speeds have been missing from such rumored specifications up until now. Mathew Smith, a database editor at Techpowerup, now claims to know the final base and boost clocks of the RTX 4070.

Per Mathew, the RTX 4070 Founders Edition/reference model will have a base clock of 1,920 MHz and a boost clock of 2,475 MHz. For comparison, the base and boost frequencies of the reference RTX 3070 clock in at 1,500 MHz and 1,725 MHz respectively. In other words, these purported RTX 4070 base and boost clock speeds are a respective 28% and 43% better than the card’s Ampere predecessor.

Additionally, it appears Colorful iGame Ultra White OC RTX 4070 with a slightly higher boost clock of 2,505 MHz is the first AIB model that is in active testing. VideoCardz suggests that the information is from the GPU-Z validation database.

Finally, Mathew also alleges that there are two reference RTX 4070 SKUs. The information is in line with reports claiming that the RTX 4070 could use two practically identical AD104-250 and 251 GPUs.

Unfortunately, we have no way of confirming the final base/boost frequencies as well as the number of reference RTX 4070 models and the primary differences between them. So, take the information with a grain of salt.

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