{"id":1687227,"date":"2026-09-08T14:52:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T14:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/HVmtry2PZ5zuhGq7pYS6XJ"},"modified":"2026-09-08T14:52:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T14:52:14","slug":"new-rtx-5070-variant-could-help-bolster-gpu-supply-but-it-surely-wont-help-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/new-rtx-5070-variant-could-help-bolster-gpu-supply-but-it-surely-wont-help-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"New RTX 5070 variant could help bolster GPU supply but it surely won’t help prices"},"content":{"rendered":"
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There are reports today that Nvidia is going to be releasing a new variant of its GeForce RTX 5070<\/a> graphics card with a cut-down GB203 GPU instead of the GB205<\/a> chip it originally launched with. Could this be good news for consumers? Well, no and maybe.<\/p>\n

The idea behind using bigger chips to fill out the inventory of smaller cards basically gives manufacturers something to do with graphics processors that don’t have enough functional units to power a bigger card. Here we’re talking about the same GPU as that used in the far more powerful RTX 5070 Ti<\/a> and RTX 5080<\/a> graphics cards. <\/p>\n

The RTX 5070 doesn’t currently use the full GB205 die, but its complement of 6144 CUDA cores isn’t far off the maximum of 6400 the full chip can offer, so it already has some failsafe headroom built in. Compare that with the GB203 used by the RTX 5080 and that card is <\/em>using the full silicon package of its chip. That could maybe be seen as quite a gamble on the yields coming from the TSMC 4N process, but it is mature, and Nvidia already has the RTX 5070 Ti, with its 8960 CUDA cores to mop up any GPUs that don’t quite fit the full RTX 5080 bill.<\/p>\n

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