- Nvidia’s RTX 4070 is expected to sell out by the end of this month
- RTX 4060 Ti and 4060 models will still be available through third-party manufacturers in February
- Suggestions seem plausible as the RTX 5070 launches in February
With the unveiling of Nvidia’s RTX 5000 series GPUs at CES 2025, plenty of attention has been drawn to Team Green’s affordable RTX 5070, which Nvidia claims can match the much more expensive (at launch) RTX 4090 (when using DLSS 4 with Frame Generation enabled ) – and it looks like its predecessor, the RTX 4070, may soon disappear from the GPU market.
As reported by VideoCardz, several posts on the Board Channels forum (used by people to talk about updates on PC hardware supply and demand) suggest that the RTX 4070 will be completely sold out by the end of January. The same is expected for the RTX 4060 Ti and 4060, with only AIC brands (third-party GPU manufacturers) having stock left for these GPUs in February.
This comes after months of speculation before the RTX 5000 series was revealed, which pointed to Nvidia shifting away from production of the entire RTX 4000 series. With the RTX 5080 and 5090 launching on January 30th, alongside the RTX 5070 launch in February, it fits well with these rumors – we saw a similar pattern occur at least a year before the launch of the RTX 4000 series, with the RTX 3000 series deficiency.
Does this mean you need to upgrade to an RTX 5000 series GPU?
If these rumors are legitimate, now might be one of the last chances to grab an RTX 4070 while you still can. But if you’re still using an RTX 2000 or 3000 series GPU, the jump to an RTX 5070 is one I can recommend, as you’ll have access to Multi Frame Generation, which promises to improve Nvidia’s previous version of Frame Generation by up for an additional three AI-generated frames, which can dramatically increase the frame rate.
We’re still waiting to see how the new GPUs will perform, but with the benefit of the new Multi Frame Generation feature, I expect performance will certainly be impressive (albeit with the potential for more input latency despite Nvidia’s Reflex 2).
As I mentioned earlier, RTX 2000 and 3000 series GPU owners haven’t had access to the full suite of DLSS 3’s offerings (especially Frame Generation, which is exclusive to the RTX 4000 series) with access to DLSS 3’s super resolution and the addition of DLSS 3.5 specifically aimed at providing better image quality for ray tracing in select titles (available for all RTX GPUs) as Cyberpunk 2077 using improved denoisers. This reduces ghosting while also improving dynamic lighting in sequences where ray tracing reflections are enabled, thanks to ray reconstruction.
In a pleasantly surprising move, Nvidia has made DLSS 4 available to all RTX GPUs instead of making it exclusive to the RTX 5000 series. However, the RTX 2000 and 3000 series GPUs will still miss out on Frame Generation, while the RTX 4000 series will still only generate one AI frame.
DLSS and Frame Generation are two tools that are increasingly important for getting graphics-intensive games to run at high frame rates, and have allowed less powerful GPUs to offer the kind of performance we’d once expect from flagship cards . This means the RTX 5070 has the potential to be the best value RTX 5000 series GPU by offering great performance, especially with DLSS 4, at a much more affordable price starting at $579 / £579 / AU$1,109.
