NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti GPUs are now being sold in Serbia for $1400 US

NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 4070 Ti graphics cards won't be available until the first week of January, but a Serbian retailer is already selling them. This particular Serbian store has featured…

By Nivedita Bangari

December 25, 2022

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NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 4070 Ti graphics cards won’t be available until the first week of January, but a Serbian retailer is already selling them. This particular Serbian store has featured the Gigabyte GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Gaming model, which comes with a triple-slot and triple-fan system. This card costs 172229 RSD (with VAT) and converts to roughly $1550 USD. The shop is also offering a 10% cash discount to customers who pay in cash, bringing the price down to $1400 USD.

This is still significantly more than the MSRP of even the RTX 4080, but a Serbian Redditor explains why. It is stated that Serbia has a duopoly on the technology market, as well as greedy merchants and customs imposing high charges and taxes on tech products. The RTX 4080 is said to cost $1700 US (+$500 US vs MSRP), while the RTX 4090 costs at least $2500 US (+900 US against MSRP). As a result, this pricing is nowhere near the MSRP, which should be less than $1,000 once the retail ban is lifted.

However, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti is not only available in Serbia. The MSI GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Gaming X Trio graphics cards are also in stock at Costa Rican stores and will be available for purchase on the launch date.

The graphics cards are claimed to be available for pre-order, but there is presently no indication on pricing, however users expect them to be higher than MSRP.

The full-fat NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti will use the “Ada Lovelace” AD104-400 GPU setup with 7,680 cores or 60 SMs activated. The GPU will have 48 MB of L2 cache and a 192-bit bus interface, thus we may expect up to 12 GB of GDDR6X capacity. The memory is supposed to run at 21 Gbps, with a memory bandwidth of 504 GB/s. The card is stated to have a boost clock of 2610 MHz, however the peak frequency will be greater.

The TBP now has a power rating of 285W, which is a 35W decrease from the RTX 3080 10 GB variant and a 5W decrease from the RTX 3070 Ti. The new graphics card is projected to outperform the RTX 3080, but considering the specs reduction over the 4080 16 GB, there will be a significant difference between the two variants of roughly 30-40%.

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