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Chinese sources recently reported on the limited supply of Ada Lovelace graphics cards and the information is now brought by the well-known leaker Tom from the YouTube channel Moore’s Law Is Dead, perhaps showing specific steps the green team will take. Or it could be a completely different measure, who knows. Anyway, Tom’s sources are convinced that Nvidia will deliberately reduce the availability of the RTX 4090 model.

This measure would aim to push users to buy the cheaper, but far less popular RTX 4080 graphics (by the way, the unpopularity is completely justified, but more on that in a moment). As we reported back in November, or just after the release of this model, despite the significantly lower number of available models compared to the flagship RTX 4090 card, still failed to sell out of stock.

Tom’s first source, apparently from a team at some Nvidia card manufacturer partner, said:

“We have been told outright that we will not receive additional RTX 4090 shipments until the existing RTX 4080 inventory is sold out. Nvidia is confident that people prefer to give up and simply buy an RTX 4080 instead [když jim nic jiného nezbyde, pozn. redakce].“

Another source noted that supplies of the RTX 4090 were limited just a week after launch. It also states that RTX 6000 graphics cards, intended for workstations and sent to the market with a price tag in the order of several thousand dollars, are on the contrary being distributed in abundance to distributors.

RTX 4080 simply offers significantly worse price: performance ratio than its more expensive sister, but at the same time lags behind the cheaper RTX 4070 Ti in this regard. For many really demanding users, there is practically no reason why they should choose the RTX 4080 and not pay for a significantly faster model. It is for this reason that several times began to argue about reducing its price, but at the moment it seems that Nvidia has come up with a different solution. At least temporarily.

There is information coming out of China that Nvidia will face this quarter lower deliveries new generation graphics cards. Supposedly, we could also finally wait price reduction of the GeForce RTX 4080 model, which arrived on the market with a relatively inflated price tag.

Sources believe that fewer RTX 4090, RTX 4080, and RTX 4070 Ti graphics cards will be shipped than may be needed. Unfortunately, they did not give specific reasons. But the question is whether the reduction in deliveries will really have any impact on us, the customers. The green team has already succeeded in producing a large number of graphics chips and supplying them to its partners.

The main focus was the graphics RTX 4090which is intended for the most demanding gamers and content creators – the number of GPUs delivered to partners for the production of this model exceeded the 100,000 mark less than a month after its launch. Significantly fewer chips were made for the lower RTX 4080 modelwhich in the final was still struggling with poor demand and those interested in new graphics did not want it because of the poor price:performance ratio. January’s RTX 4070 Ti thus became a far more popular card and Chinese sources about her they speak of it as a scarce commodity.

So a price cut for the RTX 4080 would definitely be welcome. Speculations that Nvidia would take this step appeared already in December of last year, in connection with the launch of competing graphics cards Radeon RX 7900 XT a XTX. It was the second piece mentioned that aimed to compete with the RTX 4080, which it even succeeds in some disciplines. In the United States at the same time it carries a $200 lower price tagwhich is certainly not an insignificant amount.

The list of next-generation desktop graphics cards from Nvidia currently consists of three pieces, which are intended for more demanding players/content creators. But we will have to wait for some time for models more accessible to the wider public. According to server information Videocardz graphics should Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 will not arrive until April.

According to a document obtained by Videocardz, the model will hit store shelves in April, however the date of the introduction or end of the embargo on reviews for journalists and influencers has not yet been determined.

According to earlier leaks, in the case of the main variant of the RTX 4070 card count with AD104-250-A1 chipwhich it has 5,888 CUDA cores. So, as you can see, it uses the same but chopped GPU as we find in the more expensive and already released model RTX 4070 Ti (aka RTX 4080 12GB). Given that the chip present in the RTX 4070 will provide worse results and will also run at significantly lower frequencies, we should encounter approximately 200W consumption.

The card is to be further equipped 12GB of GDDR6X memory, which will run after 192-bit bus. Its throughput should therefore be 504 GB/s.

Although Nvidia is currently planning to release the card in April, a lot can change. From the January information, with which exclusively he came WCCFTECH server, it follows that the production of the AD104-250-A1 chip will start already in the middle of this month.

Leaker Kopite7kimi additionally revealed yesterday that The RTX 4070 will be available in a total of three different variants. One of them will even be equipped with an AD104-251-A1 chip, but the differences should be absolutely minor in the final. This configuration will probably arrive a little later, as it will not go into production until March.