The Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super, one of the best graphics cards, won't be the only one of its kind on the market. MSI (via wxnod) recently launched the RTX 4070 Ti Super 16G Ventus 3X Black OC, which features different silicon than the original RTX 4070 Ti Super.
Nvidia first shipped the RTX 4070 Ti Super with AD103 silicon — the same chip used in the RTX 4080 and RTX 4080 Super. There's nothing surprising about Nvidia using the same die for multiple GPU variants, as we've covered in our Nvidia Ada Lovelace RTX 40-series overview. However, the renders for MSI's latest custom RTX 4070 Ti Super show that the graphics card sports a different die. The capacitor layout between the RTX 4070 Ti Super 16G Ventus 3X Black OC and the previously-released RTX 4070 Ti Super 16G Ventus 3X OC looks different. The former has four SP-Caps and two MLCC clusters, while the latter only has three SP-Caps, implying the move to a different silicon.
The RTX 4070 Ti Super's AD103 silicon has 66 SMs enabled out of the 80 available on the die. The configuration yields 8,448 CUDA cores, and it also has four 64-bit memory interfaces enabled. Nvidia's only other potential silicon would be a move up to the larger AD102 — AD104 used in the vanilla RTX 4070 Ti doesn't have enough memory controllers or SMs. The AD102 silicon on the other hand contains 144 SMs (18,432 CUDA cores) and six 64-bit memory controllers. That means the 'new' GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super only has 45.8% of the AD102 SMs enabled, less than half of what it potentially offers — along with 66.7% of the memory interfaces.
