Nvidia RTX 4070 Review ft. Gigabyte and Palit

Using the graphics card-only power draw figures presented earlier in the review, here we present performance per Watt on a per-game basis for all twelve games we tested at 1080p.

Per-Game Results at 1080p:

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12-Game Average at 1080p:

Performance per Watt is much improved for the 4070 versus the 30-series. Despite offering very similar performance to the RTX 3080, the 4070 can do so at significantly less power, resulting in a 76% increase to performance per Watt for this Ada GPU. It's dead level with the RTX 4070 Ti in this regard.

Ray tracing results

As a bonus, we now include the power figures for all six games we test with ray tracing enabled.

6-Game ray tracing average:

Interestingly, when looking at performance per Watt for our ray traced games, the gain for the 4070 over the RTX 3080 is slightly smaller, with a 60% increase in efficiency on show. Compared to the RX 7900 XT though, the RTX 4070 offerings 41% more performance per Watt for ray traced gaming.

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