Nvidia RTX 4070 Super Review

1. Introduction2. Meet the RTX 4070 Super Founders Edition3. Testing Methodology4. 3DMark Fire Strike & Time Spy5. 3DMark DirectX Raytracing6. Alan Wake II7. Assassin's Creed Mirage8. Cyberpunk 20779. Forza Horizon 510. The Last of Us Part 111. A Plague Tale: Requiem12. Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart13. Red Dead Redemption 214. Resident Evil 415. Returnal16. Starfield17. Total War: Pharaoh18. Performance Summary (12-Game Average)19. Cost Per Frame Analysis20. Ray Tracing: Alan Wake II21. Ray Tracing: Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora22. Ray Tracing: Cyberpunk 207723. Ray Tracing: F1 2324. Ray Tracing: Hitman 325. Ray Tracing: Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart26. Ray Tracing: Returnal27. Ray Tracing: Shadow of the Tomb Raider28. Ray Tracing Performance Summary29. DLSS Testing30. Clock Speed31. GPU Temperatures32. Memory 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

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 is somewhat of a flagship game for Nvidia's RTX technologies, featuring pretty much every DLSS version available. DLSS 3 Frame Generation provides a 50% higher frame rate compared to native 1440p, though with latency rising from 28.2ms to 41.6ms. Adding in DLSS Super Resolution in the Quality mode boost frame rates further, to 152.8FPS, with latency at 35.8ms.

Hitman 3 sees a bigger net gain when using DLSS 3 Frame Generation, as the FPS almost doubles from 42.9FPS, up to 79.9FPS. Latency does increase, by 12.8ms, or 27%. Latency can be brought back down to native 1440p levels with DLSS 2 Super Resolution, and this increase frame rate to 111FPS.

Lastly, Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered delivers similar results. Average frame rate at native 1440p can be increased by 52% using Frame Generation, at a cost of 47% higher latency. Adding DLSS 2 Quality mode into the mix increase frame rate up to 168FPS, though latency is still higher than native 1440p with no DLSS.

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