This time our test involves a new video card from ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 4070 Ti OC (TUF-RTX4070TI-O12G-GAMING), kindly provided to us by ASUS.
| APPEARANCE AND CHARACTERISTICS |
This subsection of our review highlights the main aspects of the ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 4070 Ti OC, such as appearance and hardware configuration.
| APPEARANCE AND CHARACTERISTICS |
ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 4070 Ti OC comes in a very compact package, where everything is aesthetically and beautifully laid out.
The ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 4070 Ti OC kit includes the video card itself, a power adapter, and a stylish screwdriver.
The ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 4070 Ti OC video card occupies only 2,5 PCI-E slots, which is currently a good compact size among other giants…
On the side we have a 12-pin power connector, a typical feature for all the latest video cards.
The video card has 5 video outputs – 2 HDMI and 3 DisplayPort, all of them support 8K resolution.
The video card also boasts five heat pipes that effectively transfer heat to a massive radiator, despite the modest size of the video cards.
On the reverse side of the back plate of the ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 4070 Ti OC has a cutout to provide better airflow through the radiator array. Also on the reverse side we see a BIOS video cards switch, which allows you to switch between quiet mode and performance mode.
ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 4070 Ti OC compared to ASUS TUF Gaming Radeon RX 7900 XT OC Edition looks very compact and will ultimately fit in most cases!
| ARCHITECTURE |
The GeForce RTX 4070 Ti is based on the AD104 GPU and features 7680 CUDA cores delivering 40 FP32-precision shader teraflops for graphics rendering, 240 fourth-generation Tensor Cores offering 641 trillion sparse matrix operations for AI and DLSS processing, 60 third-generation RT cores generation Ada architecture with 93 RT-TFLOPS performance for next-generation ray-traced graphics acceleration and 12 GB of GDDR6X memory. Like all GeForce RTX 40 series GPUs, the RTX 4070 Ti is equipped with Ada innovations including Shader Execution Reordering (SER), a new optical flow engine, new RT cores and DLSS 3.
NVIDIA Ada Architecture
The NVIDIA Ada architecture is a giant leap in performance. Numerous improvements make it the fastest and most advanced. The RTX 4070 Ti is manufactured using TSMC’s custom 4N process and contains 35,8 billion transistors and 7680 CUDA cores. Hardware-accelerated tracing, fourth-generation Tensor Cores for improved AI performance, eighth-generation encoders with support for AV1 encoding and decoding, and DLSS enhancements that deliver high frame rates in competitive gaming and at ultra settings with ray tracing enabled.
NVIDIA Ada streaming multiprocessor
RTX video cards have three main processors: programmable universal CUDA cores on which shaders and general-purpose CUDA applications are processed, RT cores for accelerating calculations of intersections of rays with triangles and bounding volumes, in the RT cores of the Ada architecture they doubled the rate of calculation of intersections with triangles, the latter processor type – artificial intelligence processing pipeline called tensor cores.
Ada improves all three RTX processors
Programmable Shaders: 40 shader teraflops compared to 21,7 teraflops on the RTX 3070 Ti. The Ada shader processor includes an important new technology called Shader Execution Reordering (SER), which reorders work on the fly, providing up to XNUMXx speedup for ray tracing shaders. SER is as big a innovation for GPUs as out-of-order execution once was for CPUs.
4th Generation Tensor Cores: The new Tensor Core in Ada includes the NVIDIA Hopper FP8 Transformer Engine, delivering up to 641 tensor teraflops with FP8 precision on sparse matrices in the RTX 4070 Ti for AI training and inference, up from 174 tensor teraflops on sparse matrices in the RTX 3070 Ti. Compared to FP16, FP8 halves memory requirements and doubles AI performance.
Gen 3 RT Cores: The new Opacity Micromap Engine speeds up intersection calculations on average by half for texture transparency test surfaces when developers use this feature, and the new Micro-Mesh Engine increases geometric detail without the cost of assembly and BVH storage. Ada’s throughput on intersection tests is 93 RT-TFLOPS, compared to 42,5 RT-TFLOPS for the 3070 Ti.
4th Generation Tensor Cores
Tensor cores are high-performance computing cores specialized and adapted for matrix multiplication and addition operations, used in artificial intelligence and high-performance computing applications. Tensor cores provide breakthrough performance for matrix computations, which are critical for training multilayer neural networks and inference of already trained networks. Examples of inference applications include NVIDIA DLSS 3 technology for gamers, in which a separate neural network is responsible for generating high-quality frames, all powered by NVIDIA’s Tensor Core. DLSS has become so popular that there are already more than 250 games that support this technology, in which gamers can double their performance with one click. In addition, many creative apps have begun to use artificial intelligence features to help artists create content faster and with better quality. Today, more than 110 popular creative applications use acceleration on the Tensor and RT cores of RTX graphics cards. And exclusive NVIDIA applications such as Broadcast и Canvas, offer tools for removing noise, creating virtual backgrounds, and many other AI-powered effects for video streaming and conferencing.
The fourth-generation Ada tensor core builds on the capabilities of previous Ampere GPUs, which supported many new data types and added structured sparsity acceleration to double the throughput of previous Turing cores. Generation Ada Tensor Cores support the new FP8 data format, first introduced in the NVIDIA Hopper GPU architecture. Compared to FP16, FP8 halves storage requirements and doubles AI performance. With the new FP8 format and sparsity feature, the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti delivers 641 TFLOPS of performance for AI workloads.
3rd generation RT cores
Ada’s third-generation RT cores are specialized hardware units for accelerating BVH traversal and ray-triangle intersection calculations, which are critical to accelerating ray tracing. The RT cores of RTX video cards are completely independent, they perform all BVH traversal and intersection calculations, thereby offloading SM streaming multiprocessors with CUDA cores and freeing them up to perform other tasks such as pixel shading, vertex shading and general purpose calculations.
Ada’s RT cores deliver up to 2x faster ray-triangle intersection testing compared to NVIDIA Ampere GPUs, allowing developers to add more detail to their virtual worlds. Ada’s RT cores also include new Opacity Micromap Engine blocks that speed up geometry tracing with alpha testing by up to 2x, helping developers speed up tracing-intensive scenes with vegetation and particle effects by up to 2x. The new RT cores also include Displaced MicroMesh Engine blocks, which generate micro meshes on the fly to create additional geometry.
All of these technologies to improve ray tracing performance give the Ada architecture a lot of room for the future. As new games come out using Ada technologies to increase performance, RTX 40 series video cards will undoubtedly become faster and all break away from the previous generation of RTX 30 series video cards. A recent remaster can be cited as an example. Portal with RTX based on RTX Remix, in which NVIDIA uses new features of the Ada architecture, such as the OMM and SER engines (which, by the way, can be disabled in the settings), together they allow the RTX 4090 to be up to 3 times faster than the RTX 3080 Ti without using DLSS, but with Using the DLSS 3 frame generator, the advantage can be up to 5 times.
| GPU Tweak III OPERATING MODES |
| HEATING AND POWER CONSUMPTION |
The ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 4070 Ti OC gluttony test was carried out in conjunction with an Intel Core i9 13900K 3.2 GHz + Z690 AORUS MASTER in a closed Thermaltake Core V51 case:
In “Donut” in stock mode, the ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 4070 Ti OC shows 65 degrees, consumption is 283 Watts. From the outlet, the system consumes about 457 watts. IN Cyberpunk 2077 in stock mode, ASUS TUF Gaming GEFORCE RTX 4070 Ti OC shows 62 degrees, consumption is 277 Watts. From the outlet, the system consumes about 436 watts.
Now let’s put these temperature and energy consumption indicators into tables, with the results we obtained earlier:
As we can see, in FurMark the power consumption of the ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 4070 Ti OC card is almost the same as the consumption in the games themselves.
The temperature of the ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 4070 Ti OC card reaches a maximum of 65 degrees. Temperature indicators for such a compact cooling are simply excellent! It is worth noting that under load, the ASUS TUF Gaming GEFORCE RTX 4070 Ti OC is almost silent…
| TEST PART |
| Test configuration | |
| test stands |
32 GB DDR5 6000@6400 CL30 Kingston FURY Renegade Kingston FURY Renegade PCIe 4.0 NVMe M.2 SSD Kingston XS2000 Portable SSD 1 TB- optimal solution for testing different configurations |
| Multimedia equipment |
Seasonic PRIME TX-1000 power supply |
| Software configuration |
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| Operating system | Windows 10 21H2/ Windows 11(Alder Lake) |
| Graphics driver |
Nvidia GeForce/ION Driver Release 527.62 WHQL AMD Radeon Adrenalin Edition 22.12.2 |
| Monitoring programs |
MSI Afterburner |
| GAMES |
| Horizon Zero Dawn |
Testing took place at maximum quality settings in the game itself. Our test segment.
In Horizon Zero Dawn The performance of the ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 4070 Ti OC is at the level of the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti.
| Cyberpunk 2077 |
Testing took place at maximum quality settings and with ray tracing. Our test segment.
В Cyberpunk 2077 performance of ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 4070 Ti OC DLSS helps the video card show quite decent results, noticeably outperforming GeForce RTX 3080 Ti.
Testing took place at maximum quality settings and with ray tracing. Our test segment.
Rђ RІRѕS, in this game ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 4070 Ti OC slightly inferior to ASUS TUF Gaming Radeon RX 7900 XT OC Edition.
| Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition |
Testing took place at maximum quality settings and with ray tracing. The test was carried out in a benchmark.
In Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 4070 Ti OC performance is slightly above the level GeForce RTX 3080 Ti.
| God of War |
Testing took place at maximum+ quality settings. Our test segment.
In God of War, the ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 4070 Ti OC is only slightly inferior to the ASUS TUF Gaming Radeon RX 7900 XT OC Edition.
| Dying light 2 stay human |
Testing took place at maximum+ quality settings with RT. Our test segment.
In Dying Light 2 Stay Human, the ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 4070 Ti OC video card outperforms even the ASUS Radeon RX 7900 XTX.
| ELDEN RING |
Testing took place at maximum quality settings (with ray tracing). Our test section.
In this game ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 4070 Ti OC beats Radeon RX 6900 XT , but inferior ASUS TUF Gaming Radeon RX 7900 XT OC Edition.
| F1 22 |
Testing took place at maximum quality settings and with ray tracing. Our test segment.
In F1 22 The performance of the ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 4070 Ti OC is slightly higher than that of the ASUS TUF Gaming Radeon RX 7900 XT OC Edition.
| Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered |
Testing took place at maximum quality settings and with ray tracing. Our test segment.
In Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered The performance of ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 4070 Ti OC is higher than that of ASUS Radeon RX 7900 XTX..
| Gotham Knights |
Testing took place at maximum quality settings and with ray tracing. Our test segment.
В Gotham Knights The performance of the ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 4070 Ti OC is slightly lower than that of the ASUS TUF Gaming Radeon RX 7900 XT OC Edition.
| DLSS-3.0 |
And finally, a small test to see how it works ASUS TUF Gaming GeForceRTX 4070 Ti OC with DLSS 3.0 in the most significant recent games where there is a real need for it:
As we can see, turning on DLSS 3.0 in quality mode with the slightest loss in image quality gives a twofold increase in performance.
Well, based on testing ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 4070 Ti OC (TUF-RTX4070TI-O12G-GAMING) First, let’s draw conclusions about the video card itself – it is very compact, so you don’t have to worry that it will fit in most modern cases. Also, the TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 4070 Ti OC is quite cold – 65 degrees in the stress test confirms this. At the same time, it is quiet – in game modes it is practically inaudible. We also note the rather modest power consumption when compared with all other currently released video cards of the Nvidia GeForce RTX 4000 and AMD Radeon RX 7900 series.
Now what about the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti model – this video card without ray tracing in most cases is either inferior or equal to the Radeon RX 7900 XT. With ray tracing, it is either equal to the Radeon RX 7900 XTX or noticeably ahead of it. As for comparison with the previous generation video card GeForce RTX 3080 Ti, the RTX 4070 Ti is almost always ahead of it, and sometimes quite significantly. It is also worth considering that the video card supports DLSS 3.0, which allows you to get a decent advantage in games.
Advantages
– excellent cooling system that provides comfortable temperatures and comfortable noise levels in games
– compact dimensions
– low power supply requirements
– excellent performance with RT
– DLSS 3.0 support
Disadvantages
– Without ray tracing, the card is inferior to the RX 7900 XTX at 4K
And of course, here are not all our tests of the ASUS TUF Gaming GEFORCE RTX 4070 Ti OC – in order to maintain intrigue for the annual reviews, so visit the site daily for more results of our new products!
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GEFORCE RTX 4070 Ti 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Rating 76% |
Radeon RX 7900 XT 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Rating 76% |