Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070: Mid-range graphics card could be launched in three flavours.

The RTX 3000 series was notorious for multiple, confusingly-specced graphics cards with seemingly pointless variants. While public outrage successfully incentivized Nvidia to "unlaunch" and then relaunch the GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB as the RTX 4070 Ti, its non-Ti sibling might not be so lucky. Videocardz has stumbled upon three GeForce RTX 4070 versions.

Gigabyte's website says the GeForce RTX 4070 will come in three flavours with 10 GB, 12 GB and 16 GB VRAM. It is in line with a leak from last year that talked about multiple boards. Leaks prophesized 12 GB of video memory on a 192-bit bus, identical to the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti. However, the main distinction between the two SKUs will be the GPU, with the GeForce RTX 4070 using a heavily cut-down AD104-250/251.

It is pertinent to note that the information is not sourced from a public-facing website and could include information about models that never made it past the EVT stage. That said, Nvidia's history suggests it has no qualms about launching the same graphics card with different video memory, and the mid-range GeForce RTX 4070 would be the ideal SKU to test the waters. Nvidia could also launch one GeForce RTX 4070 variant in April and leave the other two as mid-cycle refreshes.

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