Nvidia RTX 4070 Review ft. Gigabyte and Palit

Here we re-test three titles using both DLSS 2 and DLSS 3, to give you an idea of the performance on offer from Nvidia's upscaling technologies.

Cyberpunk 2077 DLSS 2

Cyberpunk benefits strongly from DLSS 2 Super Resolution, even using the Quality mode. At 1080p the card gets a 61% frame rate boost, improving frame rates into the 90FPS region, which really isn't bad at all with ray tracing on full whack. At 1440p the gains are even bigger, with the 4070 now seeing a 77% FPS uplift by engaging DLSS 2 Quality mode, taking the average from 35.9 up to 63.6 FPS. DLSS 2 is not enough to get a playable frame rate at 4K however, but we also test DLSS 3 which can provide a further boost…

Cyberpunk 2077 DLSS 3

Engaging DLSS 3 Frame Generation at 1440p brings an FPS boost similar to engaging DLSS 2 Quality, but of course you can enable both features at the same time – almost tripling FPS versus native resolution. Of course, latency is part of the equation, with just an 11% reduction in latency when using both DLSS 2 + DLSS 3 Frame Generation compared to native 1440p with Reflex enabled, despite the 270% increase to frame rates.

Hitman 3 DLSS 2

Hitman 3 is another title tested with DLSS 2 Quality mode. At 1080p it offers a 52% performance uplift for the RTX 4070, enabling an average frame rate of 86FPS with ray tracing enabled. That increases at 1440p, with DLSS 2 Quality now resulting in a 65% frame rate boost. For comparison, the 3070 Ti at 1440p sees a 66% boost from DLSS, so the 4070 is still 17% faster when both GPUs use DLSS 2.

Hitman 3 DLSS 3

We also toggled on DLSS 3 Frame generation in Hitman 3, with results similar to Cyberpunk 2077. With both DLSS 2 and DLSS 3 Frame Gen enabled, frame rates hit 93.5FPS, compared to 36FPS at native resolution.

Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered DLSS 2

DLSS 2 Quality has a slightly tougher time in Spider-Man, as frame rates are already higher, but here it's a great tool to turn the 4070 into a 4K card – it averages 45.5FPS at native resolution, but manages to hit 71FPS with DLSS 2 Quality enabled, a boost of 57%. Even with DLSS 2 Quality, the 3070 Ti is running into framebuffer issues at the same resolution, with the 1% lows still hovering below 30FPS, despite a 50% increase to the average frame rate.

Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered DLSS 3

DLSS 3 Frame Gen works very well in Spider-Man (I actually used it for 90% of my play through in this game over Christmas), where it excels by alleviating CPU bottlenecks. Engaging both DLSS 2 and DLSS 3 Frame Gen results in almost 150FPS at 1440p, though latency is a few milliseconds higher than native resolution.

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