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

For our manual overclocking tests, we used MSI Afterburner. Our best results are as below.

Lastly, a quick word on overclocking. The Founders Edition has a maximum power limit of 240W, so a 9% increase over stock. Maxing that out, I was able to add 210MHz to the GPU core and 1280MHz to the memory.

This resulted in a real-world clock speed of 2926MHz, measured over a 30-minute stress test in Cyberpunk 2077.

This overclock saw our frame rates increase from between 5-9% depending on the games re-tested. It's reasonable, nothing too crazy, but about what we've come to expect from the Ada architecture.

This overclock did result in a small increase to power draw – up from 226W stock to 238W, as measured in Cyberpunk. That's only a 5% increase though, so nothing really to worry about.

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