Don’t call him any more. 12 Go Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080! As previously reported, Nvidia redesigns the same graphics card and renames it the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti.
It should be noted that, as the specifications show, the new card is a step down from the Geforce RTX 4080 and 4090. However, as we will see, we are far from a powerless pictorial map.
TECHNICAL CHARACTERISTICS
The GeForce RTX 4070 Ti is the first Ada Lovelace generation card to use a new chip. The GeForce RTX 4080 and 4090 employ chip AD103, whereas the RTX 4070 Ti uses chip AD104. This, once again, may generate confusion with his previous surname.
| Model | Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Ti |
|---|---|
| Maximum definition | 7680 x 4320 pixels |
| Technology | Nvidia GSync, AMD FreeSync |
| Exit | HDMI 2.1, DisplayPort 1.4a |
| Power connectors | 2 x 8 PCIE pins |
| Name of the chip | AD104-400 |
| Architecture | Ada Lovelace |
| Flow processors | 7680 |
| Basic frequency | 2.31 GHz |
| Botost frequency | 2.61 GHz |
| Ray-Tracing | Yes |
| Amount of video memory | 12 GB |
| Memory interface | 192 bit |
| Memory type | GDDR6X |
| Consumption | 285 W |
| Recommended feed | 700 W |
This model does not come with a Founder Edition from Nvidia. So we put a Gigabyte GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Eagle OC 12G graphics card to the test. The brand’s overclocking is fairly modest here, with the boost frequency ranging from 2610 MHz to 2625 MHz. Not enough to impact the magnitudes of our findings.
According to Nvidia, this card must have the power to play 1440p at 120 frames per second. Most PC gamers choose high-resolution screens with resolutions of 1080p or 1440p. As a result, it is a map geared at a broader audience than the powerful RTX 4080 and 4090, which are aimed for 4K and even 8K TVs.
Nvidia supplied us with a test copy.
DESIGN: A MORE CLASSIC FORMAT
The GeForce RTX 4070 Ti is the first Ada Lovelace generation product to use a more traditional style for our packaging. There’s no question about him being a “BFG,” as Nvidia’s CEO dubbed him, but he’s still a fairly intimidating, high-end card.
In this case, we’re using a Gigabyte Eagle model with three fans and a big radiator that takes up the full surface. Because the format takes up just over two PCI Express slots in height and roughly thirty centimeters in length, you’ll need a roomy chassis to accommodate it.
With three DisplayPort 1.4 connectors and an HDMI 2.1 port, connectics may be one of Nvidia’s weak spots in this generation. In contrast, AMD’s RDNA 3 maps include DisplayPort 2.1 connectors that are more forward-thinking. This is important to consider when purchasing a graphics card, although DisplayPort 1.4 is still completely adequate. So there is a disadvantage, but it is not insurmountable.
Power is always supplied through port 12VHPWR, using an adapter supplied by Nvidia to connect two PCI Express ports. For the time being, the passing through an adaptor is a disadvantage of the product while waiting for market supply to immediately provide the right cable. Because the port is on the side.
CONFIGURATION USED FOR THE TEST
We utilized the identical setup as in our RTX 4080 test for this test.
- Mother card : X570 Asus ROG Crosshair VIII HERO ( Wi-Fi )
- Processor : AMD Ryzen 7 5800X ( 3.8 / 4.7 GHz, 8 hearts, 16 threads )
- Memory : 32 GB of RAM DDR4 2666 MHz ( two Corsair kits Revenge CMK16GX4M2Z2666C16 )
- SSD : Samsung 970 1 To NVMe, MSI M480 Play 1 To
- Food : BeQuiet Dark Power Pro 1500W
- Boitier : In Win 303
- Software : Windows 11 2022 ( with Nvidia Game Ready 526.72 ) drivers
We utilized a 27-inch ASUS ROG XG27UQR monitor with a 4K UHD resolution of 3840 x 2160 pixels and a refresh rate of up to 144 Hz.
SYNTHETIC BENCHMARKS
3DMark Time Spy Extreme :
We begin our testing with the Time Spy Extreme benchmark, which we have been utilizing for some years. This allows us to directly compare the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti to other GPUs launched in recent years.
This test does not employ ray tracing or IA help, thus it is just a matter of determining the gross power for the basic 3D computation. With a score of 10,946 points, this RTX 3070 Ti outperforms the whole previous generation, including the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti. It’s a promising indicator for the future.
3DMark Ray Tracing :
The Ada Lovelace architecture provides numerous substantial enhancements for 3D calculations that use radiation tracing to depict light. 3DMark has a rather greedy test for this capability.
The GeForce RTX 4070 Ti, like its relatives with the same architecture, achieves 60 FPS, which is rather impressive on this benchmark. There was no prior generation card there, and the greatest AMD cards only hit 30 frames per second. At the time of this test, we were unable to evaluate the latest Radeon based on RDNA 3.
V-Ray and Octanebench :
Our final simulated tests are designed to test professional graphics card applications. With 3D modeling software, V-Ray and Octanebench allow you to evaluate the performance of the graphics card.
We obtain 1039 points on V-Rays and 714 points on Octanebench with our test machine. Again, this enables the GeForce 4070 Ti to outperform the RTX 3090 Ti, Nvidia’s flagship for Ampere architecture.
This test is emerging as further evidence of Ada Lovelace’s architecture’s tremendous increase in power from one generation to the next. Nvidia cannot be accused of resting on his laurels.
VIDEO GAME PERFORMANCES
CyberPunk 2077 :
The game Cyberpunk 2077 is frequently mentioned in Nvidia presentations. It must be stated that this game, with its vast environment and clever integration of the hitting ray, is quite hungry. As a result, this is an excellent test for new generations of graphics cards.
On the other hand, we are hesitant to incorporate DLSS 3. This new DLSS version allows you to build full pictures, which substantially improves image fluidity. Nvidia provided us with a perversion of the game that had this capability for the GeForce RTX 4090 and 4080 testing.
This game update is still not accessible to the general public more than two months after the RTX 4090 test. In other words, if you buy a Geforce RTX 4000 today, you will not be able to use DLSS 3 in Cyberpunk 2077. As a result, highlighting the performance of the graphics card with a yet inaccessible mode appears less significant. In this regard, Nvidia France tells us that the update will be available in the coming weeks. In the meanwhile, as long as the update is not available, we will confine ourselves to DLSS 2 for testing this game.
Especially considering the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti does not require DLSS 3 to deliver excellent performance. With the highest visual settings, ray tracing in extreme, a 4K screen, and the DLSS 2 in automatic mode, the game averages 66 pictures per second. Without the DLSS, fluidity is lost, and we average 20 photos per second.
As an example, with the same visual characteristics and preversion of the game, the game averages 86 pictures per second owing to the DLSS 3. During the test integrated with the DLSS in quality mode with a display resolution of 2560 x 1440 pixels, you can achieve an average of 120 photos per second.
Flight Simulator :
Flight Simulator is still one of the most gorgeous PC games available today. It is also the greatest example of DLSS 3, which enhances the fluency of a game that is normally limited by the CPU. The game is played at 1440p with the DLSS 3 in balanced mode with the graphic settings set to Ultra.
With these parameters, the game remains quite smooth, especially when flying over New York, one of the PC’s most hungry places. We average 91 photos per second, with uncommon drops to 47 images per second. Remember that this is a game that we did not expect to see rotate at more than 40 photos per second since it demands a lot of power.
RTX Portal :
Portal RTX serves as a showcase for Nvidia’s RTX Remix technology, which allows modders to update cult classics not just by adding ray tracing, but also by delivering true remasterization models and textures. In this case, Valve’s cult game is entitled to “full ray tracing” rendering sans rasterization. We just do not produce more greedy now as a rendering strategy for a 3D video game. All lighting and shadows are computed realistically.
We activated DLSS 3 (Balanced) and adjusted the visual settings to Ultra in 2560 x 1440 pixels. We can’t even imagine running this title without the DLSS because it’s so hungry for computational power. On the easiest stages of the game, we receive an average of 110 photos per second with the DLSS 3 turned on. On more complicated levels with multiple reflections and dynamic objects, this average reduces to 80 photos per second.
A Plague Tale Requiem :
A Plague Tale Requiem is one of the earliest examples of a new generation of games. He is greedy and, above all, visually appealing. The French game in Asobo gains full control of DLSS 3.
We tried the game again on 2560 x 1440 resolution with the highest visual settings. We initially played many game sequences without the DLSS, then with the DLSS 2 in auto mode, and finally with the DLSS 3 in auto mode.
The DLSS 2 appears to be more than enough in our test arrangement. It provides the optimum compromise between latency and display frequency, averaging 120 pictures per second. If fluidity is more essential to you than latency, which is appropriate for a non-competitive game like this, the DLSS 3 allows you to pass the course of 120 pictures per second with a 1% delay. In other words, you will almost never dip below this number.
The Witcher 3 :
In 2023, will The Witcher 3 be a benchmark graphics card? Yes, CD Project Red has been offering a massive next-gen patch for the game since the end of the year, bringing several new features such as ray tracing, DLSS, and the ability to mount above 60 pictures per second. When one tries to push the game to its limits, it becomes much more hungry, yet it moves at an entirely different speed.
This is reflected in our outcomes. We explored two parts of the game in 2560 x 1440 pixels with all settings turned on. If you can attain an average of 53 frames per second in the game’s fairly vast and sparsely populated opening area, the fluidity collapses in Novigrad, one of the game’s major cities. The population density and more intricate architecture of the environment in this scenario slow the game down to 35 photos per second on average.
On this title, therefore, sacrifices will be required awaiting prospective upgrades that might ease the GPU’s strain.
Overwatch 2
Competitive multiplayer games are used to determine whether or not a graphic chip can sustain a high level of performance over time. These are games that will need a higher display frequency than hungry screen effects. Overwatch 2 is an excellent representation for this category, with a release date of the end of 2022 and excellent optimization that allows it to function on any sort of system.
We played a few rapid games with the highest visual settings, leaving the display frequency changing. The RTX 4070 Ti, with a rendering resolution of 3840 x 2160 pixels, averages 180 pictures per second.
However, because Nvidia targets 1440p panels with this screen, we ran the test again with a specification of 2560 x 1440 pixels. In this scenario, we just get an average of 308 photos every second. As a result, latency is low and the player gains experience without making any concessions.
Fortnite :
This is the first time we’ve been able to evaluate a graphics card since the Fortnite Chapter 4 update, which upgraded the game to Unreal Engine 5.1, bringing several technical improvements. We have enabled all graphic settings, including Lumen and ray tracing, and the game is now running by default with DirectX 12.
Under these circumstances, the game becomes far more hungry than you might expect. We ran the game at an average of 58 photos per second at a resolution of 2560 × 1440 pixels. We have multiple elements of the traditional mode battle royale with various activities such as combat or driving cars across various surroundings to reach this declaration.
By disabling these settings, the game averages 158 frames per second in creative mode without access to all tools like as Lumen or ray tracing. If you want to maximize performance at all costs, you may do so by making certain sacrifices in the visual choices.
Other Games :
- Spider-Man Remastered ( 1440p, Extreme, DLSS 3 ): 182 images per second ;
- Red Dead Redemption 2 ( 1440p, maximum pre-setting, no DLSS ): 73 FPS
- Doom Eternal ( 1440p, RT, DLSS balanced ): 303 images per second ;
- Metro Exodus ( 1440p, Extreme, RT Ultra, no DLSS ): 68.62 images per second ;
- Forza Horizon 5 ( 1440p, Extreme, RT Extreme, no DLSS ): 103 images per second ;
- Watch Dogs Legion ( 1440p, Ultra, DLSS Balanced ): 69 images per second on average.
VIDEO EDITING
The inclusion of a latest generation NVENC double encoder is a pleasant surprise with this GeForce RTX 4070 Ti ( AV1 included ). This may have been one of Nvidia’s concessions to reduce range, but not on this model. This translates to a graphics card that can encode video twice as quickly in the most common formats ( H.264, HEVC, etc ).
The use of AV1 ensures the product’s endurance; it is the new video format that will predominate in the next years.
CONSUMPTION
Contrary to popular belief about visual maps, one of Nvidia’s strengths with Ada Lovelace is in consumption management.
The maximum power consumption of the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti is 285W, which is the same as the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti. However, the power disparity between the two generations is more than palpable. In this class, Nvidia actually provides substantially higher graphics capacity for same consumption without delivering any energy savings.
PRICE AND AVAILABILITY
Prior to its termination, the GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB was launched for 1099 dollars. The positive surprise from the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti is in the new tariff that Nvidia changed and fixed. Obviously, manufacturers and distributors are allowed to establish their own costs, but a 200-dollars reduction could help a lot.
In the absence of a Founder Edition model where Nvidia can control the tariff, partners will be allowed to cut pricing, making the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti more difficult to promote.
