Week 45 HW News Review

Nvidia is going to introduce the RTX 4070 Ti in January

In October, the first graphics card of the new generation of Lovelace, the RTX 4090, was released. In just a few days, it will be followed by the RTX 4080 16GB. Initially, it was supposed to be supplemented by a 12 GB variant, which, however, contained a completely different chip and, in general, it was just a completely different product, so labeling it with the same number was quite confusing. That’s why Nvidia canceled it a few weeks ago, but what about the already released cards? Insider kopite7kimi offers an answer, and it probably won’t surprise you at all.

In a short tweet, he simply stated that the RTX 4080 12GB would become the RTX 4070 Ti. The specs will likely stay the same and we can only hope that at least the price will be lowered as this was understandably the biggest criticism of the original version of this card. Priced at $899, it will currently compete with the upcoming Radeon RX 7900 XT, where it may have an advantage in ray tracing, but definitely not in rasterization.

And when will the new graphics be introduced? Now it’s like CES. According to Wccftech magazine, the announcement is due on January 3rd, the reviews are due a day later, and the release is slated for January 5th.

Frame generation also works with FSR and XeSS.

RTX 40 graphics cards come with DLSS 3 technology, which provides what is called image generation. Adds one “fake” between two traditionally rendered ones, this then results in an increase in FPS, especially in situations where the CPU is the limit. But, as Igor’s Lab found out, frame generation in Spider-Man Remastered works not only with DLSS, but also with competing FSR from AMD and XeSS from Intel. When asked if this was a bug, Nvidia said no, it was indeed an intended feature.

As you can see from the graph, at least with FSR, the technology works very well and is almost on the same level as DLSS. This is an interesting number, since AMD recently announced the third version of FSR, which should also offer a frame generation. So let’s see how it will look against the background of Nvidia’s competitors.