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

Palit's RTX 4070 Dual ships in a black box, with some blue accents on the front – you can also make out the two fans, hence the name ‘Dual'. On the back, Palit highlights some key information in multi-lingual text.

Interestingly, there were no included quick-start guides or any accessories in the box, possibly due to my sample being a pre-release review unit, but a quick-start guide for a new user wouldn't have gone amiss.

Looking at the card itself, Palit has also opted for a minimalist design, with an all-black plastic shroud. The build quality isn't going to blow you away as there's a bit of flex to the plastic used, but it's not the end of the world – once installed, how often are you going to touch the card anyway?

As we mentioned, the name ‘Dual' refers to the dual fan layout, with Palit opting for two 100mm fans here.

In terms of the size of the card, we again don't have official dimensions at the time of publishing, but I measured the card at approximately 267 x 130 x 40mm, so it's a standard dual-slot thickness.

The front side of the card is home to the GeForce RTX and Palit logos. The small grey strip underneath the Palit logo is actually an RGB strip – it's very basic, with just three effects to choose from within Palit's Thundermaster software, but I suppose it's better than nothing.

As for the backplate, I am a bit disappointed Palit has opted for a plastic backplate here, it definitely adds to the less-than-premium feel that was started with the plastic shroud. I get this is a ‘MSRP' card, but it's still nearly £600 – Gigabyte managed it, I would have expected the same from Palit.

 

As mentioned on the previous page, Nvidia is now allowing its partners to ship 4070s with a single 8-pin power connector if they wish – considering the TGP of the GPU is only 200W, this is no problem at all from a power perspective and means users don't need any adapters or new cables. Display outputs consist of 3x DisplayPort 1.4 and 1x HDMI 2.1.

Disassembling the card to look at the PCB, Palit has opted for a less beefy 6+2 VRM, so one fewer GPU phase than Gigabyte. Palit is using OnSemi's NCP302150 MOSFETs, rated at 50A. As per the Gigabyte Windforce, a UPI UP9512R controller is used for the GPU VRM, with a UPI UP9529Q looking after the memory VRM.

As for the cooler, Palit has opted for four 6mm heatpipes, with the GPU and VRAM contacting a unified baseplate. A separate fin array is used to contact the VRM MOSFETs.

Palit is using a plastic backplate, purely for aesthetic reasons – it will not help dissipate heat from the back of the PCB.

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