Nvidia RTX 4070 Review ft. Gigabyte and Palit

1. Introduction2. Nvidia RTX 4070 Founders Edition3. Gigabyte RTX 4070 Windforce OC4. Palit RTX 4070 Dual5. Testing Methodology6. 3DMark Fire Strike & Time Spy7. 3DMark DirectX Raytracing8. Assassin's Creed Valhalla9. Cyberpunk 207710. Days Gone11. Dying Light 212. God of War13. Horizon Zero Dawn14. Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered15. A Plague Tale: Requiem16. Red Dead Redemption 217. Resident Evil Village18. Total War: Warhammer III19. Uncharted 4: A Thief's End20. Performance Summary (12-Game Average)21. Cost Per Frame Analysis22. Ray Tracing: Control23. Ray Tracing: Cyberpunk 207724. Ray Tracing: F1 2225. Ray Tracing: Hitman 326. Ray Tracing: Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered27. Ray Tracing: Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition28. Ray Tracing Performance Summary29. DLSS Testing30. Testing the AIBs31. Clock Speed32. GPU Temperatures33. Memory Temperatures34. Acoustics35. Noise-Normalised Temperatures36. Power Draw: 1080p37. Power Draw: 1440p38. Power Draw: 2160p (4K)39. Performance per Watt: 1080p40. Performance per Watt: 1440p41. Performance per Watt: 2160p (4K)42. Total System Power Draw43. Overclocking44. Closing Thoughts45. View All Pages

Ray tracing 6-game average FPS

Over the 6 games with ray tracing that we benchmarked, performance of the RTX 4070 scales closely in line with the RTX 3080, with just a 3% margin between the two cards at 1080p. The 4070 is once more 21% faster than the 3070 Ti, but it's faster than the RX 6900 XT by 17%, which goes to show Nvidia still has a clear lead in terms of ray tracing performance.

At 1440p the 4070 is still good for 63FPS on average, and that's before enabling DLSS (which we benchmark on the next page of this review.) It's still 5% slower than the RTX 3080, but also still 17% ahead of the RX 6900 XT, while that margin increases to 22% versus the RTX 3070 Ti.

Cost per frame, launch MSRP data

Cost per frame when solely looking at ray tracing titles is much more favourable to Nvidia GPUs, with the 4070 taking top spot at every resolution tested (when using the launch MSRP pricing data). That said, the 4070 still doesn't show much of an improvement from the 30-series – even at 1440p, it offers just 5% better cost per frame than the RTX 3080 for ray traced games.

Cost per frame, current pricing data

Likewise, using current retail pricing, there's even smaller differences between the 4070 and 30-series, many of which can be found under MSRP – including the 3070 Ti. The 4070 is still the best value when it comes to ray tracing performance, just not by very much at all.

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