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

Alan Wake 2 is a 2023 survival horror game developed by Remedy Entertainment and published by Epic Games Publishing. A sequel to Alan Wake, the story follows best-selling novelist Alan Wake, who has been trapped in an alternate dimension for 13 years, as he attempts to escape by writing a horror story involving an FBI special agent named Saga Anderson. The game was released for PlayStation 5, Windows, and Xbox Series X/S on 27 October 2023. (Wikipedia)

Engine: Northlight. We test using the High preset, High Ray Tracing preset, FSR set to Quality upscaling, DXR API.

Starting our ray tracing benchmarks with Alan Wake II, here the 4070 Ti Super is the third-fastest card on our chart, averaging 47FPS at 1440p and that actually makes it 17% faster than the 4070 Ti – which is much more like it! It's also over twice as fast as the 7900 XT here.

Up at 4K, this is a clear example of the benefits of a 16GB frame buffer. Now I know the 4070 Ti Super performance is still pretty poor at just 25FPS, though it's an exceptionally demanding game. What we can see however, is that Nvidia GPUs with 12GB VRAM drop off a cliff, whereas the 4070 Ti Super remains a lot more stable. Perhaps a sign of things in years to come when 12GB framebuffers don't quite cut it anymore.

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