NVIDIA RTX 4070 to Feature a Max Core Boost Clock of Over 2.8GHz with a TGP of 285W [Rumor]

The core clock speeds of the NVIDIA RTX 4070 have been shared by a well-reputed. The midrange Lovelace GPU, likely to be the most popular of this generation, will have a base clock of 2.3GHz and a boost of 2.6GHz. The effective in-game core frequency will exceed 2.8GHz, a gain of roughly 1GHz over the RTX 3070. Keep in mind that we’re comparing two SKUs leveraging completely different process nodes (SS 8nm LPP vs TSMC N4) and microarchitecture but it’s a remarkable figure nonetheless.

GPU	GA102	AD102	RTX 4090	AD103	RTX 4080	AD104	RTX 4070
Arch	Ampere	Ada Lovelace		Ada Lovelace		Ada Lovelace
Process	Sam 8nm LPP	TSMC 5nm		TSMC 5nm		TSMC 5nm
GPC	7	12	11	7	7	5	5
TPC	42	72	64	42	40	30	30
SMs	84	144	128	84	80	60	60
Shaders	10,752	18,432	16,384	10,752	9,728	7,680	7,680
TP	37.6	~100 TFLOPs?	90 TFLOPs?	~50 TFLOPs	47 TFLOPs?	~35 TFLOPs	35 TFLOPs?
Memory	24GB GDDR6X		24GB GDDR6X		16GB GDDR6X		12GB GDDR6X
L2 Cache	6MB	96MB	72MB	64MB		48MB
Bus Width	384-bit	384-bit		256-bit		160-bit
TGP	350W	600W	450W	450W	320W	300W	285W
Launch	Sep 2020		Sept 22?		Sept 22?		Sept 22?

According to @kopite7kimi, the total board power (TBP) has been reduced from 300W to 285W, exactly 65W more than its predecessor. The GeForce RTX 4070 will feature the fully enabled AD104 die with 7,680 cores across 60 SMs paired with 12GB of GDDR6X memory via a 160-bit bus. The L2 cache will be buffed up to 48MB, much like AMD’s own Infinity Cache. It should still cost between $499 and $549 with a holiday season or CES 2023 launch.