Nvidia RTX 4070 Ti Review ft. Gigabyte Gaming OC

1. Introduction2. Meet the Gigabyte Gaming OC3. Testing Methodology4. 3DMark Fire Strike & Time Spy5. 3DMark DirectX Raytracing6. Assassin's Creed Valhalla7. Cyberpunk 20778. Days Gone9. Dying Light 210. Far Cry 611. Forza Horizon 512. God of War13. Horizon Zero Dawn14. Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered15. Red Dead Redemption 216. Resident Evil Village17. Total War: Warhammer III18. Performance Summary (12-Game Average)19. Cost Per Frame Analysis20. Ray Tracing: Cyberpunk 207721. Ray Tracing: Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered22. Ray Tracing: Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition23. Ray Tracing: Resident Evil Village24. Clock Speed25. GPU Temperatures26. Memory Temperatures27. Acoustics28. Power Draw: 1080p29. Power Draw: 1440p30. Power Draw: 2160p (4K)31. Performance per Watt: 1080p32. Performance per Watt: 1440p33. Performance per Watt: 2160p (4K)34. Total System Power Draw35. Overclocking36. Closing Thoughts37. View All Pages

While Nvidia may have officially announced the RTX 4070 Ti at yesterday's CES 2023 keynote, you wouldn't be wrong to think of that as a relaunch, following on from the now infamous RTX 4080 12GB ‘unlaunch'. That's because the RTX 4070 Ti we are reviewing today is the same exact GPU as the RTX 4080 12GB, but with a £150 price cut and, of course, a new name. Hitting the market at £799, what can we expect from this ‘new' graphics card, and is it worth buying? We test gaming performance, overclocking, power draw, thermals and more to find out…

As the third RTX 40-series card to hit the market, the Nvidia RTX 4070 Ti also brings with it a third new Ada Lovelace GPU – AD104. The smallest piece of 40-series silicon yet, RTX 4070 Ti offers 21% fewer CUDA cores than the RTX 4080, with 25% less VRAM, but for a price cut of around 33%. On paper it certainly looks like it will offer better value than its more expensive sibling, but today we will find out whether or not that plays out in practice.

As always, we have plenty of benchmarks and charts to go over, including a detailed look at power draw and efficiency. If you want to read this review as a single page, click HERE.

	RTX 4090	RTX 4080	RTX 4070 Ti	RTX 3080 Ti	RTX 3080	RTX 3070 Ti
Process	TSMC N4	TSMC N4	TSMC N4	Samsung 8N	Samsung 8N	Samsung 8N
SMs	128	76	60	80	68	48
CUDA Cores	16384	9728	7680	10240	8704	6144
Tensor Cores	512	304	240	320	272	192
RT Cores	128	76	60	80	68	48
Texture Units	512	304	240	320	272	192
ROPs	176	112	80	112	96	96
GPU Boost Clock	2520 MHz	2505 MHz	2610 MHz	1665 MHz	1710 MHz	1770 MHz
Memory Data Rate	21 Gbps	22.4 Gbps	21 Gbps	19 Gbps	19 Gbps	19 Gbps
L2 Cache	73729 KB	65536 KB	49152 KB	6144 KB	6144 KB	4096 KB
Total Video Memory	24GB GDDR6X	16GB GDDR6X	12GB GDDR6X	12GB GDDR6X	10GB GDDR6X	8GB GDDR6X
Memory Interface	384-bit	256-bit	192-bit	384-bit	320-bit	256-bit
Memory Bandwidth	1008 GB/Sec	716.8 GB/Sec	504 GB/Sec	912 GB/Sec	760 GB/Sec	608 GB/Sec
TGP	450W	320W	285W	350W	320W	290W

First, for a quick spec recap. We already mentioned that RTX 4070 Ti uses the AD104 die, measuring 295mm². Accordingly, transistor count is reduced to 35.8 billion, down from 45.9 billion with AD103. The fundamental building blocks are still the same of course, with the RTX 4070 Ti offering a total of 60 Streaming Multiprocessors (SMs), each housing 256 CUDA Cores, for a total of 7680. We also find 60 RT cores, 240 Tensor cores, 240 Texture Units, and 80 ROPs.

TSMC's N4 node has Nvidia cranking up the clock speed significantly this generation, with the RTX 4070 Ti sporting a 2610MHz rated boost clock. That's a 105MHz increase over the rated clock speed of the RTX 4080, but we would expect GPU Boost to push things further still.

The memory configuration is another area where AD104 has been cut-back significantly. The memory interface has been reduced to 192-bit, and even with 12GB GDDR6X running at 21Gbps, that brings total memory bandwidth down to 504 GB/s, lower than even the RTX 3070 Ti. That said, there has been a substantial upgrade to the L2 cache with the Ada architecture, with the RTX 4070 Ti now offering 49MB, compared to just 6MB for GA102.

Considering these cut-backs, power draw is naturally lower than the RTX 4080, with the 4070 Ti boasting a 285W TGP. This is something we focus on closely, using our updated GPU power testing methodology in this review, so read on for our most detailed power and efficiency testing yet.

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