We all know it is coming. But Nvidia's RTX 4070 graphics card has yet to be announced. However, a new official slide from Nvidia details latency performance in Counter-Strike 2 (opens in new tab) with Reflex anti-lag technology.

The no longer rumored RTX 4070 is shown compared to the RTX 3060 (open in new tab) and the aging GTX 1060 (open in new tab). While frame rate is what you really want to look at as an overall picture of performance, latency is partly derived from frame rate. As such, this is the first official snapshot of RTX 4070 performance.

We can add this information to the avalanche of "leak" information (open in new tab).

In terms of pure raster performance, the RTX 4070 is rumored to be roughly on par with the previous generation RTX 3080. However, it is expected to sell for $599, $100 less than the RTX 3080's MSRP, although the 3080 typically sold for many times that price for most of its life, thanks to the GPU boom during the pandemic.

The RTX 4070 is also expected to have 12 GB of VRAM. If so, it could be a useful upgrade, given that recent titles such as "The Last of Us" tend to consume frightening amounts of video memory (opens in new tab). This game consumes 11GB of VRAM at 1080 Ultra settings. Ouch.

Anyway, who knows why Nvidia decided to highlight an unannounced GPU in the Counter-Strike 2 Reflex performance slide. Given that the other two GPUs are both 60-series boards, the RTX 4060, also unannounced, would have been more suitable.

However, that may have been a step too far for Nvidia's future plans. Currently, the consensus is that the RTX 4070 will be available at the end of this month, with the RTX 4060 and its sibling, the 4060 Ti, coming in May.

Whatever the case, the fact that Nvidia is willing to stick RTX 4070 on its official slides rather implies that this GPU will be released very, very soon. Let's hope that it is at least as good as rumored.