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

Here we re-test three titles using both DLSS 2 and DLSS 3, to give you an idea of the performance on offer from Nvidia's upscaling technologies.

Cyberpunk 2077 DLSS 2

Cyberpunk benefits strongly from DLSS 2 Super Resolution, even using the Quality mode. At 1080p the card gets a 61% frame rate boost, improving frame rates into the 90FPS region, which really isn't bad at all with ray tracing on full whack. At 1440p the gains are even bigger, with the 4070 now seeing a 77% FPS uplift by engaging DLSS 2 Quality mode, taking the average from 35.9 up to 63.6 FPS. DLSS 2 is not enough to get a playable frame rate at 4K however, but we also test DLSS 3 which can provide a further boost…

Cyberpunk 2077 DLSS 3

Engaging DLSS 3 Frame Generation at 1440p brings an FPS boost similar to engaging DLSS 2 Quality, but of course you can enable both features at the same time – almost tripling FPS versus native resolution. Of course, latency is part of the equation, with just an 11% reduction in latency when using both DLSS 2 + DLSS 3 Frame Generation compared to native 1440p with Reflex enabled, despite the 270% increase to frame rates.

Hitman 3 DLSS 2

Hitman 3 is another title tested with DLSS 2 Quality mode. At 1080p it offers a 52% performance uplift for the RTX 4070, enabling an average frame rate of 86FPS with ray tracing enabled. That increases at 1440p, with DLSS 2 Quality now resulting in a 65% frame rate boost. For comparison, the 3070 Ti at 1440p sees a 66% boost from DLSS, so the 4070 is still 17% faster when both GPUs use DLSS 2.

Hitman 3 DLSS 3

We also toggled on DLSS 3 Frame generation in Hitman 3, with results similar to Cyberpunk 2077. With both DLSS 2 and DLSS 3 Frame Gen enabled, frame rates hit 93.5FPS, compared to 36FPS at native resolution.

Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered DLSS 2

DLSS 2 Quality has a slightly tougher time in Spider-Man, as frame rates are already higher, but here it's a great tool to turn the 4070 into a 4K card – it averages 45.5FPS at native resolution, but manages to hit 71FPS with DLSS 2 Quality enabled, a boost of 57%. Even with DLSS 2 Quality, the 3070 Ti is running into framebuffer issues at the same resolution, with the 1% lows still hovering below 30FPS, despite a 50% increase to the average frame rate.

Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered DLSS 3

DLSS 3 Frame Gen works very well in Spider-Man (I actually used it for 90% of my play through in this game over Christmas), where it excels by alleviating CPU bottlenecks. Engaging both DLSS 2 and DLSS 3 Frame Gen results in almost 150FPS at 1440p, though latency is a few milliseconds higher than native resolution.

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