1. Introduction2. Meet the MSI RTX 4070 Ti Super Ventus 3X3. Testing Methodology4. Dodgy MSI BIOS?5. 3DMark Fire Strike & Time Spy6. 3DMark DirectX Raytracing7. Alan Wake II8. Assassin's Creed Mirage9. Cyberpunk 207710. Forza Horizon 511. The Last of Us Part 112. A Plague Tale: Requiem13. Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart14. Red Dead Redemption 215. Resident Evil 416. Returnal17. Starfield18. Total War: Pharaoh19. Performance Summary (12-Game Average)20. Cost Per Frame Analysis21. Ray Tracing: Alan Wake II22. Ray Tracing: Avatar Frontiers of Pandora23. Ray Tracing: Cyberpunk 207724. Ray Tracing: F1 2325. Ray Tracing: Hitman 326. Ray Tracing: Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart27. Ray Tracing: Returnal28. Ray Tracing: Shadow of the Tomb Raider29. Ray Tracing Performance Summary30. DLSS Testing31. Clock Speed32. GPU Temperatures33. Acoustics34. Power Draw: 1080p35. Power Draw: 1440p36. Power Draw: 2160p (4K)37. Performance per Watt: 1080p38. Performance per Watt: 1440p39. Performance per Watt: 2160p (4K)40. Total System Power Draw41. Overclocking42. Closing Thoughts43. View All Pages

Returnal is a 2021 roguelike video game developed by Housemarque and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment. It was released for the PlayStation 5 on April 30, 2021 and Windows on February 15, 2023. The game follows Selene Vassos, an astronaut who lands on the planet Atropos in search of the mysterious “White Shadow” signal and finds herself trapped in a time loop. (Wikipedia).

Engine: Unreal Engine 4. We test using the Epic preset with ray tracing disabled, DX12 API.

As for Returnal, we're back in the territory of only small performance gains for the 4070 Ti Super over the original 4070 Ti, as we're looking at just a 5% difference at 1440p, or barely a handful of frames.

The gap does widen at 4K, now with a 7% margin between the two cards, and the Ti Super is only 6% slower than the 7900 XT, so it's one of the better results, but it's still 16% behind the RTX 4080.

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