Last week I took a look at the first of Nvidia’s new SUPER lineup, the RTX 4070 SUPER which improved on the original RTX 4070’s performance getting closer to the RTX 4070 Ti’s performance. Nvidia also announced the RTX 4070 Ti SUPER and RTX 4080 SUPER cards at CES this year as well and today is the day that we can check out the  RTX 4070 Ti SUPER before it hits stores tomorrow. Is the new card worth the upgrade for those who didn’t upgrade with the 4000 Series launch, today I’ll find out how it performs and where the RTX 4070 Ti SUPER fits in today's market. We also get a chance to check out what ASUS is up to as our card is a TUF Gaming model, so let’s dive in!

Product Name: ASUS TUF Gaming RTX 4070 Ti SUPER

Review Sample Provided by: Nvidia/ASUS

Written by: Wes Compton

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What’s so SUPER

Nvidia’s CES announcements were all covered in their video but to hit a few highlights before getting into what the three new SUPER cards have to offer. They touched on a few new upcoming RTX supported titles. One of those is Half-Life 2 RTX which was done using the RTX Remix tool. That tool is going into open beta offering an easy way for modders and developers to upgrade past and current games to utilize RTX technology. Anything that makes it easier to do will only help get more support and in this case, we can potentially see upgraded games that we would have never seen otherwise which is exciting.

Nvidia and Twitch announced a new way for Twitch streamers to now offer a better range of resolutions. In the past, for anyone who isn’t one of their main partnered streamers you are stuck with just one resolution. This way you will be able to stream at a range of resolutions and frame rates. Viewers who have the bandwidth can enjoy better quality 4k 60 FPS streams but users on mobile or lower-performing internet connections will still be able to watch as well.

They announced improvements in G-Sync variable refresh rate. Along with that, they covered G-Sync Pulsar which is part of their VRR or variable refresh rate technology. Pulsar bridges the gap between using variable refresh rate and ultra low motion blur to get a smooth experience but cut out the blur that you can get with it.

They then of course announced the three new SUPER cards and showed where all three will fit in their updated lineup. The RTX 4080 SUPER will replace the RTX 4080 and sit behind the RTX 4090 still. That will have an MSRP of $999, $200 less than the original MSRP of the RTX 4080. The new card has a faster base clock of 2295 MHz vs 2205 MHz on the 4080 and 40 MHz more on the boost clock with it now at 2550 MHz. The real improvement comes from more cores going from 9728 CUDA cores up to 10240. The RTX 4070 Ti SUPER replaces the RTX 4070 and has an MSRP of $799, the same as the original launch price of the RTX 4070. It gets a memory clock speed improvement but like with the 4080 SUPER, it's big improvements with the CUDA core count jumping up from 7680 up to 8448 which is a big improvement. With all of these cards, the tensor cores and RT cores will also scale up at the same rate as the CUDA cores as well. Lastly the RTX 4070 SUPER doesn’t replace the original RTX 4070, the original is staying in the lineup. The 4070 will now be $549, $50 less than its launch price and the RTX 4070 SUPER takes up that $599 price point and fits in between the 4070 and 4070 Ti SUPER. The CUDA core count goes from 5888 up to 7168, a 21.7% improvement and the same boost and memory clock speeds. Nvidia did bump up the power usage slightly with the 4070 SUPER now having a TGP of 220 Watts to the 200 Watts on the 4070, the 4080 SUPER and 4070 Ti SUPER both stay the same at 285 Watts and 320 watts respectively. Overall though I like that as a refresh the focus is on adding more cores, not cranking up clock speeds which we have seen with things like the RX 480 to RX 580.

Specifications	RTX 4070 SUPER	RTX 4070 Ti	RTX 4070 Ti SUPER	RTX 4080
Graphics Processing Clusters	5	5	6	7
Texture Processing Clusters	28	30	33	38
Streaming Multiprocessors	56	60	66	76
CUDA Cores	7168	7680	8448	9728
Tensor Cores	224 (4th Gen)	240 (4th Gen)	264 (4th Gen)	304 (4th Gen)
RT Cores	56 (3rd Gen)	60 (3rd Gen)	66 (3rd Gen)	76 (3rd Gen)
Texture Units	224	240	264	304
ROPs	80	80	96	112
Boost Clock	2475 MHz	2610 MHz	2610 MHz	2505 MHz
Memory Clock	1313 MHz	1313 MHz	1313 MHz	1400 MHz
Memory Data Rate	21 Gbps	21 Gbps	21 Gbps	22.4 Gbps
L2 Cache Size	48MB	48 MB	48 MB	64 MB
Total Video Memory	12 GB GDDR6X	12 GB GDDR6X	16 GB GDDR6X	16 GB GDDR6X
Memory Interface	162-bit	192-bit	256-bit	256-bit
Total Memory Bandwidth	504 GB/s	504 GB/sec	672 GB/sec	1008 GB/sec
Texture Rate (Bilinear)	561.1 GigaTexels/second	626 Gigatexels/sec	689 GigaTexels/second	761.5 GigaTexels/second
Fabrication Process	4N NVIDIA Custom Process	TSMC 4N NVIDIA Custom Process	4N NVIDIA Custom Process	TSMC 4N NVIDIA Custom Process
Transistor Count	35.8 Billion	35.8 billion	45.9 Billion	45.9 Billion
Connectors	3 x DisplayPort 1 x HDMI	3 x DisplayPort 1 x HDMI	3 x DisplayPort 1 x HDMI	3 x DisplayPort 1 x HDMI
Power Connectors	2x PCIe 8-pin cables (adapter in box) OR 300 W or greater PCIe Gen 5 cable	2x PCIe 8-pin cables OR 300w or greater PCIe Gen 5 cable	2x PCIe 8-pin cables (adapter in box) OR 300 W or greater PCIe Gen 5 cable	3x PCIe 8-pin cables (adapter in box) OR 1x 450 W or greater PCIe Gen 5 cable
Minimum Power Supply	650 Watts	700 Watts	700 Watts	750 Watts
Total Graphics Power (TGP)	220 Watts	285 Watts	285 Watts	320 Watts
Maximum GPU Temperature	90° C	90° C	90° C	90° C
PCI Express Interface	Gen 4	Gen 4	Gen 4	Gen 4
Launch MSRP	$599	$799	$799	$1199

 

Before getting into testing I did also run GPUz to double-check that our clock speeds match up with the specifications. The TUF Gaming RTX 4070 Ti SUPER has a boost clock of 2610 MHz which matches the stock clock speeds from Nvidia and the 1313 MHz memory clock speed as well. This also shows the driver I tested with which is the 551.15 driver and documents the BIOS version for future reference as well.