Nvidia RTX 4070 Review ft. Gigabyte and Palit

Using the graphics card-only power draw figures presented earlier in the review, here we present performance per Watt on a per-game basis for all twelve games we tested at 2160p (4K).

Per-Game Results at 2160p (4K):

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12-Game Average at 2160p (4K):

Lastly, at 4K the 4070 remains top of the pile. It's worth noting that due to time constraints we were unable to test the RTX 4080 ahead of this review, which we found to be 10-15% more efficient than the 4070 Ti, so the 4070 is not the most efficient Ada GPU to be released so far. We can also note that it is now 53% more performant per Watt than the RTX 3080 – when it was more like 76% more efficient at 1080p. Clearly, the 4070 scales best at lower resolutions, at 4K its memory bandwidth is a likely limitation.

Ray tracing results

As a bonus, we now include the power figures for all six games we test with ray tracing enabled.

6-Game ray tracing average:

For our ray traced figures too, we can see the 4070 remains top dog. It's now 45% more efficient than the RTX 3080 on average at 4K.

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