Weeks before the presentation of NVIDIA’s RTX 50 series, the availability of the RTX 40 in some of its models had begun to be scarce, causing, again, a price rise that didn’t make any sense with the new series just around the corner.
With the launch of the new generation of RTX 50 graphics with Blackwell architecture, and although they are not yet available on the market, the logical thing was for NVIDIA to make a move in the production line, just as it did months ago with the RTX 4090 and with the RTX 4080 SUPER.
The latest news related to the availability of the RTX 40 in the market comes, once again from China where it is stated that the life cycle of the RTX 4060 and RTX 4070 is coming to an end and they will no longer be available before end the first quarter of 2025.
The RTX 4060, RTX 4060 Ti and RTX 4070 say goodbye
These are the two cheapest NVIDIA graphics cards currently available. If we take into account that NVIDIA has yet to announce the RTX 5060, which would hit the market as the cheapest entry range to the 50 series, everything seems to indicate that it will do so before ending production of the RTX 4060 and RTX 4070 so as not to leave a free gap in the market that Intel can take advantage of with the Intel Arc B580 and B570 and AMD with the new RX9000for which the launch prices are still unknown.
RTX 4070 will be sold out in January. RTX 4060/Ti seems EOL in Q1 – BoardChannels
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According to this same source, the current availability of the RTX 4070 It is very scarce and will most likely sell out in early February. When this happens, users who are interested in these models will only have the option to choose the RTX 4060 and the RTX 4060 Tiwhose availability will last a few more weeks, specifically until the end of March, although the available stock is scarce, there are plans to replenish it.
At the moment, there is no news that points to the models that RTX 4070 Ti, RTX 4070 SUPER and RTX 4070 Ti SUPER They will stop being manufactured soon, at least according to this source, something that could change when the RTX 5070 and RTX 5070 Ti are launched on the market.
The RTX 4070 is being replaced by the RTX 4070 SUPER since it also offers a better quality-price ratio, making it much easier to find this model than the non-SUPER version.
Goodbye to Ada Lovelace architecture
The better value for money of the RTX 4070 SUPER is likely the main reason why NVIDIA plans not to replenish available stock at this time. With the end of production of the RTX 4060, RTX 4060 Ti and RTX 4070, the only graphics cards that continue to use the Ada Lovelace architecture is the SUPER, Ti and Ti SUPER range of the RTX 4070 series.
The RTX 50 debuts Blackwell architecture, an architecture that, on paper, seems to make a very important leap compared to the previous generation, although this must be taken with a grain of salt until, in a few days, the first comparative reviews of the RTX 50 are published. performance in games, which is where you will really see if there is as much difference as NVIDIA claims.
