I nonetheless don’t absolutely perceive the rancor with which the RTX 4070 Ti is usually regarded. The place some see an overpriced, memory-deprived albatross of a graphics card, I’ve solely ever seen a quick and feature-rich GPU whose 12GB of VRAM is demonstrably superb for 99.95% of video games at 4K. A greater deal than the RTX 4080 for that decision, in any case.
Now, although, we will all agree: no one can purchase an RTX 4070 Ti. Not when the RTX 4070 Ti Tremendous is right here, doing a greater, hopefully much less contentious job of clean 4K with out demanding RTX 4080 (or, certainly, RTX 4080 Tremendous) ranges of funding.
This GPU’s Tremendous-specific upgrades are targeted fairly keenly on that VRAM, each dropping the notorious 192-bit interface in favour of 256-bit and filling the pool as much as 16GB of GDDR6X. That places it on equal reminiscence footing with each RTX 4080 variants, and makes the CUDA core rely improve (7680 on the RTX 4070 Ti to 8448) and base clock velocity rise (2310MHz to 2340MHz) look much more modest as compared.
There’s an abundance of factory-overclocked companion playing cards, too. I’ve used MSI’s GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Tremendous Aero OC, which comes fitted the identical fantastically quiet cooler because the RTX 4070 Tremendous Aero OC whereas additionally ticking the increase clock up from 2610MHz to 2655MHz. The value? Above common for an RTX 4070 Ti Tremendous, it will appear, although cheaper variations begin from £770 / $800. That is a tad lower than the thriftiest RTX 4070 Tis have been once they launched final 12 months, if nonetheless an extended, loping step up from the sub-£600 RTX 4070 Tremendous.
Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Tremendous overview: 4K benchmarks
Nvidia are inclined to current their XX70 fashions as 1440p specialists, however the RTX 4070 Ti Tremendous nonetheless appears to be like so much like a 4K card to me. It constantly averages above 60fps on most high quality settings, typically breaking the 100fps barrier, and that’s with out making use of its performance-boosting DLSS upscaling and/or DLSS 3 body technology tech.
Getting there includes some tasty touch-ups on the RTX 4070 Ti, together with a 23% enchancment in Horizon Zero Daybreak and 21% in Murderer’s Creed Valhalla. Different variations aren’t so stark, nevertheless, just like the meagre 3fps achieve in F1 22.
Of all of the upgrades that the three 40 sequence Tremendous GPUs ship, the RTX 4070 Ti Tremendous sits – maybe appropriately – within the center. It doesn’t provide the identical diploma of framerate swelling that the RTX 4070 Tremendous does over its personal predecessor, however neither does it wrestle just like the RTX 4080 Tremendous does to typically even enhance 4K efficiency in any respect. The larger, fatter reminiscence does assist right here and there, so that you would possibly see higher stability in a couple of particular video games, however it’s not a very transformative change. Nearly – virtually – as if solely having 12GB of 192-bit VRAM was merely barely suboptimal, and never an egregious private insult.
These performances (and its pricing) additionally carry the RTX 4070 Ti Tremendous into competitors with the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX, which does have a bonus over Nvidia’s providing in a number of video games. It’s a lot much less of a contest, thoughts, when you begin throwing ray tracing and DLSS into the combo. Take Watch Canines: Legion, during which the RX 7900 XTX wins on native decision and rasterised lighting. However flick on ray tracing, and its 83fps common wilts to 35fps, whereas the RTX 4070 Ti Tremendous’s extra RT-friendly Ada Lovelace structure cushions its fall to 40fps. Watch Canines: Legion additionally lacks FSR assist, so the RX 7900 XTX doesn’t have an upscaling choice to rival DLSS, which the RTX 4070 Ti Tremendous can use on its High quality mode to climb again as much as 65fps.
Hitman 3, which I’m conscious I ought to now be calling Hitman: World of Assassination, additionally showcases the RTX 4070 Ti Tremendous’s superior dealing with of powerful ray tracing results. Once more, the RX 7900 XTX wins with out them, however that 171fps completely collapses with a full set of RT choices, dropping to 33fps. Even when the RTX 4070 Ti Tremendous’s equal 38fps isn’t that a lot increased, the truth that it solely fell there from a decrease start line of 131fps exhibits that the GeForce card is simply higher at absorbing the framerate hit. That’s true with upscaling in play as effectively: helped out by FSR 2 on its High quality setting, the RX 7900 XTX produced 178fps with out ray tracing and 55fps with it. The RTX 4070 Ti Tremendous, partaking DLSS on High quality, solely hit 160fps with out ray tracing however held at the next 61fps with it.
The relative lack of FSR 3-supporting video games – and Nvidia playing cards with the ability to use it anyway – additionally means there’s no compelling rival to DLSS 3’s body technology. This, too, works effectively on the RTX 4070 Ti Tremendous. At native 4K, Cyberpunk 2077 may merely limp to 23fps with Extremely settings and Psycho-quality, however a mix of body gen and DLSS upscaling on Efficiency acquired all of it the way in which as much as 93fps. That’s barely behind the 96fps that the RTX 4080 Tremendous achieved on similar settings, although additionally no quicker than the RTX 4070 Tremendous’s consequence.
Talking of its Tremendous brethren, most of the time the RTX 4070 Ti Tremendous lands proper between the opposite two on common efficiency; that frame-generated Cyberpunk 2077 result’s a little bit of an outlier. As such, it’s nonetheless a greater possibility than the RTX 4070 Tremendous if you need reliably clean 4K, and it’s higher worth than the RTX 4080 Tremendous – although now that the latter has launched at a cheaper price than the RTX 4080 did, selecting between the 2 higher-end choices is extra of a chinstroker. It would effectively be that the RTX 4080 Tremendous makes extra sense should you’ve acquired a very tricked-out monitor that may do each 4K and refresh charges above 120Hz.
Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Tremendous overview: 1440p
The different purpose why the RTX 4070 Ti Tremendous is extra of a 4K contender is that until you’re continuously reftitting your PC with the newest, best, least bottlenecking CPUs, it in the end doesn’t provide a lot at 1440p which you can’t get elsewhere. Whereas there are respectable jumps up from the unique RTX 4070 Ti – Forza Horizon 5, Metro Exodus, and Murderer’s Creed Valhalla all benefitting notably effectively – that additionally means venturing deeper into the realms of diminishing returns, and whenever you’re effectively into triple digit framerates, there’s simply not that a lot of a visual smoothness distinction between this and the RTX 4070 Tremendous.
Conversely, there’s a contraction in outcomes between the RTX 4070 Ti Tremendous and the RX 7900 XTX that works very a lot within the Nvidia GPU’s favour. The one exception, funnily sufficient, being the previous’s huge lead in Forza Horizon 5. In any other case, the distinction between them actually does come right down to DLSS and ray tracing assist, which once more, can’t be beat on the RTX 40 sequence.
Again in Hitman Regardless of the Suffix Is, the 2 are about even on rasterised settings, however including most ray tracing solely drops the RTX 4070 Ti Tremendous to 96fps. On the RX 7900 XTX, it’s 63fps. Watch Canines Legion’s Extremely RT setting additionally had the RTX 4070 Ti Tremendous averaging 68fps whereas the RX 7900 XTX fell to 57fps, whereas in Metro Exodus, comparable settings produced 100fps on the GeForce and 82fps on the Radeon.
DLSS 3 may be price utilizing at this decision as effectively. Extremely/Psycho ray tracing in Cyberpunk 2077 may really run playably at 1440p, the RTX 4070 Ti Tremendous averaging 43fps. However High quality-level DLSS upscaling may push this 73fps earlier than body technology shot it as much as 122fps, greater than doubling its unique body output. AMD don’t but have a solution to this – even within the few video games the place FSR 3 body gen works, it’s hardly ever as clean and clear as DLSS 3 – so once more, the true competitors comes from inside. The RTX 4070 Tremendous scored 110fps in the identical situations, and contemplating how less expensive it’s, an additional 12fps a isn’t a very compelling pitch for the Ti model. Until you assume you would possibly change to 4K, anyway.
Inside these sunlit 2160p uplands, I nonetheless assume the RTX 4070 Ti Tremendous is an effective GPU. Or, not less than, an excellent different to the improved, cut-price RTX 4080 Tremendous. Present RTX 4070 Ti homeowners most likely shouldn’t commerce in for one both, however these wanting an improve from their RTX 20 sequence card ought to positively look to the Tremendous model earlier than the unique.
…Unfairly maligned because it was.
This overview relies on a retail pattern supplied by MSI.
