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

For our manual overclocking tests, we used MSI Afterburner. Our best results are as below.

Overclocking the RTX 4070 Ti was surprisingly fun, and I got more out of it than I thought I would. For starters, I maximised the power limit to 119% (340W) and was able to successfully add 230MHz to the GPU. Increasing the voltage slider also helped, with the real-world clock speed increasing by about 45MHz.

Overclocking the memory, however, was absolutely nuts. I kept pushing it and it remained stable even at +2000MHz, which is as far as the slider will go in MSI Afterburner. I have no idea if I just hit the silicon lottery with my sample or if other 4070 Ti's will be able to do the same, but it was quite fun to keep pushing and pushing until I could go no further.

As a result of this extra frequency, the 4070 Ti was able to complete a 30-minute stress test, averaging 3090MHz – a pretty sizable increase over stock.

As a result of this overclock, we actually saw pretty decent gains – with a 10% boost in Cyberpunk 2077, 13% in Horizon Zero Dawn, and 12% in Resident Evil Village. This is the most success I've had overclocking Ada Lovelace, so it could be well worth doing if your sample is as capable as mine.

Power draw did also increase as a result of this overclock, by 13% – up to 272.8W. This scales pretty closely with the overall increase in performance so it's not like the overclock has improved efficiency, but I'd say the performance gain is worth it.

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