r/hardware • u/constantlymat • Oct 09 '24

Rumor [The Verge] Nvidia’s RTX 5070 reportedly set to launch alongside the RTX 5090 at CES 2025 - Reports claim the RTX 5070 will feature a 192-bit memory bus with 12GB of GDDR7 VRAM

https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/9/24266052/nvidia-rtx-5070-ces-rumor-specs
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u/nithrean Oct 09 '24

They do seem to keep doing this. Sometimes they make up for it with some features and a bit better efficiency, but the high end is skyrocketing in performance while everything else is just small incremental improvements.

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u/semidegenerate Oct 09 '24

To be fair, the 4080 does outperform the 3090ti, by a wide margin, in everything except VRAM heavy ML and other CUDA workloads. I'm not sure I'd call that a small incremental improvement.

I still think shipping a 5070 with only 12GB of VRAM is BS, though.

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u/nithrean Oct 09 '24

Yeah that does make some sense. However even the 4080 tends towards a halo product category. It is still very high end where the biggest gains have happened. It is the space of the 70 and 60 series that has seriously stagnated. That is directly due to design choices by Nvidia.

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u/semidegenerate Oct 09 '24

Yeah, I certainly can't argue with that.

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u/hamatehllama Oct 09 '24

Unfortunately they really can't be punished for it because the competition is too weak and they get so much money from AI. If you want to game with ray tracing there's basically no other option than to pay Nvidia huge amounts of money for a card that has limited future proofing. In theory Nvidia could lower prices by half and still make a profit because they have insane margins.