Oops! Leaked RTX 4070 and 4060 GPUs spoil Nvidia’s party

RTX 4070 and 4060 accidently revealed – and Nvidia must be fuming

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Oops – it looks like Gigabyte might have just spoiled a big surprise fromNvidia, with the third party GPU manufacturer accidentally leaking two new graphics cards: the Gigabyte RTX 4070 AERO OC 12GB and Gigabyte RTX 4060 GAMING OC 8GB.

The timing isn’t great (not that leaks are ever well timed), as Nvidia’s GTC (GPU Technology Conference) is currently taking place. While Nvidia would rather we concentrated on news coming out of the conference regarding its AI advancements and enterprise-grade technology, the latest hints that we could finally be getting more affordable consumer cards could overshadow much of what Team Green shows.

AsVideocardz reports, references to “GV-N4070AERO OC-12G” and “GV-N4060GAMING OC-8GD” products have been spotted in the latest version of the Gigabyte Control Center software, which is used for things like monitoring and overclocking GPUs and configuring RGB lighting.

Unlike some manufacturers, Gigabyte’s internal product naming conventions means its relatively easy to decipher what GPUs they could be referring to: anRTX 4070with 12GB of memory and anRTX 4060with 8GB.

Bad news for Nvidia, good news for gamers

This leak looks pretty conclusive, and it’s a slip up that could annoy Nvidia, which has yet to officially announce the RTX 4070 or RTX 4060. While I wasn’t expecting Nvidia to announce either GPU at GTC, due to the conference’s focus on AI and enterprise-level computing, leaks like this threaten to undermine any launch plans Nvidia might be cooking up.

Videocardz claims it has information that the RTX 4070 will be announced on April 12, but doesn’t have similar info on the RTX 4060.

While this leak may be bad news for Nvidia, as it may have wanted to keep these GPUs as a big surprise, it’s pretty good news for gamers.

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So far, Nvidia has only released expensive, high-end, desktop GPUs in its latest 40 series ‘Ada Lovelace’ lineup: theRTX 4090,RTX 4080, andRTX 4070 Ti. While these are some of thebest graphics cardsever made, not everyone can afford (or needs) such powerful GPUs.

For many PC gamers on a budget, it began to feel like Nvidia had forgotten about them. Neglecting a big part of the market is never a good idea, no matter how solid your position as market leader is, and rivalsAMDandIntelwere more than happy to swoop in withaffordable graphics cards.

While Nvidia has released more mainstream and affordableRTX 40 series mobile GPUs for laptops, that wasn’t much use for desktop gamers looking to upgrade their rigs.

So, it’s great to see that Nvidia may be planning to finally release affordable GPUs again – although, without an official announcement, we currently don’t know what prices they’ll launch up. I’d have once said that Nvidia isn’t foolish enough to launch these GPUs at much higher prices than their RTX 30 series counterparts, but Team Greenhasbeen making someweird decisions recently, so I won’t get too excited until I hear official prices.

Matt is TechRadar’s Managing Editor for Core Tech, looking after computing and mobile technology. Having written for a number of publications such as PC Plus, PC Format, T3 and Linux Format, there’s no aspect of technology that Matt isn’t passionate about, especially computing and PC gaming. He’s personally reviewed and used most of the laptops in our best laptops guide - and since joining TechRadar in 2014, he’s reviewed over 250 laptops and computing accessories personally.

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