NVIDIA’s AD102 GPU Pops Up in MSI GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Great Enjoying playing cards

As GPU households enter the later part of their lifecycles, we often see chip producers start to dump stockpiles of salvaged chips that, for one motive or one different, didn’t make the grade for the tier of enjoying playing cards they normally are utilized in. These recovered chips are fairly unremarkable normal, nonetheless they’re unsold silicon that additionally works and has monetary price, leading to them being utilized in lower-tier enjoying playing cards so that they’re usually provided. And, judging by the appears of a model new video card design from MSI, it appears to be like NVIDIA’s Ada Lovelace expertise of chips has reached that stage, as a result of the Taiwanese video card maker has put out a model new GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Great card primarily based totally on a salvaged AD102 GPU.

Generally primarily based totally on NVIDIA’s AD103 GPU, NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Great sequence sits a step below the company’s flagship RTX 4080/4090 enjoying playing cards, every of which are primarily based totally on the bigger and badder AD102 chip. Nevertheless with some number of AD102 chips inevitably failing to reside as a lot as RTX 4080 specs, barely than being thrown out, these chips can as a substitute be used to make RTX 4070 enjoying playing cards. Which is exactly what MSI has accomplished with their new GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Great Ventus 3X Black OC graphics card.

The cardboard itself is relatively unremarkable – using a binned AD102 chip wouldn’t embody any advantages, and it ought to hold out equivalent to widespread AD103 enjoying playing cards – and for that motive, video card distributors hardly publicly remember after they’re doing a run of enjoying playing cards with a binned-down mannequin of a a lot larger chip. However, these larger chips have a tell-tale PCB footprint that always makes it obvious what’s going on on. Which, as first seen by @wxnod, is exactly what’s going on on with MSI’s card.

Ada Lovelace Lineup: MSI GeForce RTX 4070 TiS (AD103), RTX 4070 TiS (AD102), & RTX 4090 (AD102)

The inform, on this case, is the rear board shot provided by MSI. The larger AD102 GPU makes use of an equally larger mounting bracket, and is paired with a barely additional superior array of filtering capacitors on the once more facet of the board PCB. Lastly, since these are seen in MSI’s photos of their GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Great Ventus 3X Black OC, it’s easy to test it to completely different video enjoying playing cards and see that it has exactly the equivalent capacitor construction as MSI’s GeForce RTX 4090, thus confirming utilizing an AD102 GPU.

Chip curiosities aside, all of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Great graphics enjoying playing cards – no matter whether or not or not they’re primarily based totally on the AD102 or AD103 GPU – embody a GPU with 8,448 energetic CUDA cores and 16 GB of GDDR6X memory, so it could not (normally) matter which chip they carry. In another case, compared with a fully-enabled AD102 chip, the RTX 4070 Ti Great specs are comparatively modest, with fewer than half as many CUDA cores, underscoring how the AD102 chip being utilized in MSI’s card is a reasonably heavy salvage bin.

As for the rest of the cardboard, MSI GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Great Ventus 3X Black OC is a relatively hefty card normal, with a cooling system to match. Being overclocked, the Ventus moreover has a barely bigger TDP than common GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Great enjoying playing cards, weighing in at 295 Watts, or 10 Watts above baseline enjoying playing cards.

Within the meantime, MSI is seemingly not the one video card producer using salvaged AD102 chips for GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Great, each. @wxnod has moreover posted a screenshot obtained on an Inno3D GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Great primarily based totally on an AD102 GPU.

Sources: MSI, @wxnod