Review and testing of the ASUS GeForce RTX 4070 DUAL OC graphics card

Written by Boldson on 13 April 2023. Posted in Test Video Cards

In this test, we are honored to test a video card from ASUS - the GeForce RTX 4070 DUAL OC model. It is based on the cutting-edge RTX 4070 architecture for unrivaled graphics quality and high performance.

APPEARANCE AND CHARACTERISTICS

This subsection of our review reveals the main aspects of the ASUS GeForce RTX 4070 DUAL OC, such as appearance and hardware configuration.

APPEARANCE AND CHARACTERISTICS

The ASUS GeForce RTX 4070 DUAL OC graphics card comes in a compact package that, despite its small size, is designed to high aesthetic standards. The placement of the components in the package also makes a positive impression with its neatness and presentability.

The ASUS GeForce RTX 4070 DUAL OC package includes only the graphics card itself.

It is interesting to note that the ASUS GeForce RTX 4070 DUAL OC graphics card has a special cutout on the back plate that allows more free airflow through the heatsink array, which allows you to optimize the cooling system and increase the performance of the graphics card.

In addition, there is also a BIOS switch on the back of the graphics card that allows you to quickly and easily switch between Quiet Mode and Performance Mode. This gives users the ability to choose between quieter operation and increased performance based on their needs and preferences. Thus, the ASUS GeForce RTX 4070 DUAL OC graphics card offers not only high performance, but also additional functionality for customizing the device according to user needs.

It should be noted that the ASUS GeForce RTX 4070 DUAL OC video card occupies 2 PCI-E slots in the system unit. This allows you to achieve more efficient cooling and maximum performance of the component in the system.

As we noticed, on the side of the ASUS GeForce RTX 4070 DUAL OC video card there is a standard 8-pin power connector instead of the more common 12-pin one. This solution can be considered a plus, as it indicates lower power consumption than older brothers. In addition, it also indicates that the manufacturer is striving to make its product more versatile and compatible with various systems, which is certainly an important factor for users.

ASUS GeForce RTX 4070 DUAL OC is equipped with 4 video outputs: 1 HDMI and 3 DisplayPort. In addition, all outputs support 8K resolution, which is impressive for a device in this class.

The ASUS GeForce RTX 4070 DUAL OC is significantly smaller than the ASUS ROG Strix GeForce RTX 4070 Ti OC in terms of length, width and height. This allows the manufacturer to make their graphics card more versatile and compatible with different cases, as well as provide better cooling and more efficient use of space in the system unit. At the same time, compactness does not affect the performance of this video card, which is still capable of demonstrating high performance and image quality.

ARCHITECTURE

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NVIDIA introduces the new GeForce RTX 4070 GPU based on the AD104 architecture. At the heart of this powerful device are 5,888 CUDA cores capable of delivering 29 teraflops (TFLOPS) of computing power for rendering bitmap graphics and 12 gigabytes of GDDR6 video memory. The new GPU features 184 Gen 4 Tensor Cores delivering 466 tensor TFLOPS (with sparsity) for AI and DLSS processing, and 46 Gen 4 Ada RT cores capable of delivering 67 RT-TFLOPS for next generation ray tracing processing.

NVIDIA Ada architecture features include a new shader execution engine (Shader Execution Reordering (SER), new RT cores, and an improved version of DLSS, making the RTX 4070 a great solution for gaming at any graphics level.

Ideal for content creation, the GeForce RTX 4070 GPU delivers superior gaming performance. The RTX experience is accelerated in top content creation applications, along with NVIDIA Studio drivers designed for maximum stability. In addition, exclusive tools are available that leverage the power of RTX to accelerate creative processes with the help of artificial intelligence.

NVIDIA Ada Streaming Multiprocessor

The RTX GPU has three core processors: a programmable shader that was introduced almost 20 years ago, RT cores for accelerating ray and triangle intersections, and an artificial intelligence processing pipeline called Tensor Cores.

The Ada architecture improves on all three RTX processors:

Programmable Shader: 29 Shader-TFLOPS, compared to 22 TFLOPS on the RTX 3070 Ti. SM Ada includes a new Shader Execution Reordering (SER) technology that redistributes tasks on the fly, doubling the speed of ray tracing shaders. SER is as significant an innovation for GPUs as out-of-order execution has become for CPUs.
Gen 4 Tensor Cores: The new Tensor Cores in Ada include the NVIDIA Hopper FP8 Transformer engine, which delivers over 466 sparse tensor terraflops in the RTX 4070 for AI workloads. That's double the 174 tensor teraflops on the RTX 3070 Ti. Compared to FP16, FP8 reduces storage requirements and doubles AI performance.
Gen 3 RT Cores: New Opacity Micromap Engine speeds up alpha-tested geometry ray tracing by a factor of 2, and new Micro-Mesh Engine allows additional geometry to be created on the fly, allowing for increased geometry complexity without the cost of building and storing BVHs . Ray and triangle intersection performance on Ada reaches 67 RT-TFLOPS, compared to 42 RT-TFLOPS on the RTX 3070 Ti.

4th Generation Tensor Cores

Tensor cores are high-performance computing cores specialized in matrix multiplications and accumulations that are used in artificial intelligence and high-performance computing applications. Tensor cores provide breakthrough performance for matrix calculations, which are critical for training and inferring deep learning neural networks. Sample output applications include NVIDIA DLSS 2.1 technology for gamers, which introduced a new 9x upscaling mode with 1440p internal rendering and upscaling to 8K resolution. In addition, many creative applications have begun to use artificial intelligence features to speed up the work of artists. NVIDIA Broadcast also offers noise removal tools,

Fourth-generation tensor cores of the Ada architecture build on the capabilities of previous Ampere GPUs, which supported many new data types and introduced sparsity that doubled the throughput of tensor cores compared to Turing tensor cores. Ada's fourth-generation tensor cores support the new FP8 data format, which was first introduced in the NVIDIA Hopper GPU architecture. Compared to FP16, FP8 data format reduces data storage requirements and doubles AI performance. With the new FP8 format and sparsity feature, the GeForce RTX 4070 delivers 466 teraflops of performance for AI inference tasks.

3rd Generation RT Cores

The third generation of RT cores in the Ada architecture are specialized hardware blocks to speed up BVH traversal and perform ray and triangle intersection calculations, which is critical for speeding up ray tracing.

RT cores free up the resources of the programmable SM shader cores, allowing them to perform other pixel, vertex, and compute tasks. Ada RT cores provide ray and triangle intersection test acceleration up to 2x faster than Ampere architecture GPUs, allowing developers to add more detail to their virtual worlds. The Ada architecture also features the Opacity Micromap Engine, which accelerates alpha-tested geometry ray tracing by a factor of 2, and the Micro-Mesh Engine, which generates micromeshing on the fly to generate additional geometry, allowing for more geometric complexity without the expense of creating and storing BVHs.

AV1 video encoding

The GeForce RTX 4070 offers hardware support for video encoding using the AV1 codec. AV1 provides improved image quality at the same bit rates as H.265/H.264, which is a big advantage for game streaming. With AV1, users can achieve the same image quality at lower bit rates, resulting in smaller file sizes and faster video loading. AV1 Ada encoder is 40% more efficient than H.264 encoder in Ampere architecture.

So, thanks to the improved technologies and architecture of Ada, the GeForce RTX 4070 is an excellent choice for content creation professionals and gamers who demand high performance and visual quality. With support for the latest technologies such as ray tracing, DLSS and AV1, the RTX 4070 graphics card delivers superior image quality and performance for today's and tomorrow's games and applications.

GPU Tweak III OPERATING MODES

It is important to note that the ASUS GeForce RTX 4070 DUAL OC graphics card is fully compatible with the GPU Tweak utility, which is one of the main analogues of MSI Afterburner in the field of setting clock frequencies, creating work profiles and monitoring various parameters of graphics adapters from NVIDIA and AMD.

GPU Tweak offers an updated interface that provides greater accessibility by bringing core features to the fore, and VF Tuner has been redesigned to make manual overclocking much easier. In addition, exclusive features such as 0dB fan technology have been added with automatic profile replacement and monitoring session logging.

Thus, users of the ASUS GeForce RTX 4070 DUAL OC graphics card can use a powerful tool to configure and monitor the operation of their graphics card, which will allow them to optimize its performance to the maximum and get the maximum image quality.

In standard mode, the card frequency is 2520 MHz with a 100% overlimit, while the frequency in games reaches 2850 MHz.

In the automatic overclocking mode, the card receives a frequency of 2550 MHz, but the power limit remains at 100%.

In silence mode, the processor frequency is reduced to 2490 MHz, and the power limit is also reduced to 90%.

HEATING AND POWER CONSUMPTION

The gluttony test of the ASUS GeForce RTX 4070 DUAL OC video card was carried out in conjunction with an Intel Core i9 13900K processor with a clock speed of 3.2 GHz and a Z690 AORUS MASTER motherboard, in a closed Thermaltake Core V51 case.

After the tests, we received data on temperature and power consumption, which can be summarized in a table and compared with the results obtained earlier. This allows you to more accurately evaluate the performance of a given video card and its energy efficiency.

Below are the test results for the ASUS GeForce RTX 4070 DUAL OC graphics card:

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According to FurMark, dedicated graphics card testing software, the power consumption of the graphics card is 179 watts, while gaming is 189 watts. The ASUS GeForce RTX 4070 DUAL OC graphics card demonstrates a fairly low power consumption, which is an important advantage when choosing components for building a computer in order to increase its efficiency and save energy.

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According to the data received, the temperature regime of the ASUS GeForce RTX 4070 DUAL OC graphics card reaches a maximum of 61 degrees Celsius in a stress test and up to 60 degrees in games. These results indicate that the cooling system of this video card works quite efficiently, providing reliable protection against overheating and stable operation of the device in various operating modes.

TEST PART

Test configuration
test stands	ASUS ROG Strix B650-A Gaming WiFi 32 GB DDR5 6000@6400 CL30 KingstonFURY Renegade Kingston FURY Renegade PCIe 4.0 NVMe M.2 SSD Case MPG CORELIQUID K240
multimedia equipment	Monitor Philips 326M6VJRMB/00 Power Supply Seasonic PRIME TX-1000
Software configuration
operating system	Windows 10 21H2/ Windows 11(Alder Lake)
Graphics driver	Nvidia GeForce/ION Driver Release 531.42 WHQL AMD Radeon Adrenalin Edition 24.1.1
Monitoring programs	MSI Afterburner

GAMES

All games were taken at the discretion of the editors, from the position for which it would now be possible to buy this new product. We have not taken synthetics seriously for a long time, we are only interested in games:

The Callisto Protocol

Testing took place at maximum quality settings (with ray tracing).

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Asus ROG GeForce RTX 4070 Ti STRIX OC has above average and minimum FPS than ASUS GeForce RTX 4070 DUAL OC which makes it perform better. However, ASUS GeForce RTX 4070 DUAL OC still has strong performance, surpassing GEFORCE RTX 3080 and Radeon RX 6800 XT.

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ASUS GeForce RTX 4070 DUAL OC at 2560x1440 in The Callisto Protocol shows strong performance with an average FPS of 62 and a minimum FPS of 38. This represents a noticeable performance increase over the GEFORCE RTX 3080 and Radeon RX 6800 XT.

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At 3840x2160, the Asus ROG GeForce RTX 4070 Ti STRIX OC offers the highest performance with an average FPS of 39 and a minimum FPS of 22. ASUS GeForce RTX 4070 DUAL OC also offers performance with an average FPS of 34 and a minimum FPS of 19, which exceeds the performance of the GEFORCE RTX 3080 and Radeon RX 6800XT.

Forspoken

Testing took place at maximum quality settings (with ray tracing).

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ASUS GeForce RTX 4070 DUAL OC in Forspoken at 1920x1080 offers high performance with an average FPS of 71 and a minimum FPS of 63. This makes it competitive with the GEFORCE RTX 3080, offering almost the same performance. However, it cannot match the high performance offered by the Asus ROG GeForce RTX 4070 Ti STRIX OC.

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At 2560x1440, the Asus ROG GeForce RTX 4070 Ti STRIX OC offers the highest performance with an average FPS of 68 and a minimum FPS of 58. The ASUS GeForce RTX 4070 DUAL OC shows the same performance as the GEFORCE RTX 3080 with an average FPS of 57 and a minimum FPS of 49. They both offer enough performance to beat the Radeon RX 6800 XT.

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ASUS GeForce RTX 4070 DUAL OC in Forspoken at 4K resolution offers performance with an average FPS of 34 and a minimum FPS of 29. It is second only to the Asus ROG GeForce RTX 4070 Ti STRIX OC, which offers the highest performance. ASUS GeForce RTX 4070 DUAL OC slightly outperforms the Radeon RX 6800 XT. Overall, the ASUS GeForce RTX 4070 DUAL OC is a good choice for gamers looking for acceptable 4K performance for this game.

dead space

Testing took place at maximum quality settings (with ray tracing).

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In Dead Space at 1920x1080, the ASUS GeForce RTX 4070 DUAL OC delivers high performance with an average FPS of 127 and a minimum FPS of 110, outperforming the GEFORCE RTX 3080 and Radeon RX 6800 XT.

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At 2560x1440, the ASUS GeForce RTX 4070 DUAL OC offers high performance with an average FPS of 81 and a minimum FPS of 72, outperforming the GEFORCE RTX 3080. The Asus ROG GeForce RTX 4070 Ti STRIX OC offers the highest performance with an average FPS of 86 and a minimum FPS of 76.

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In Dead Space at 3840x2160, the ASUS GeForce RTX 4070 DUAL OC offers good performance with an average FPS of 37 and a minimum FPS of 33, slightly behind the GEFORCE RTX 3080.

Hogwarts Legacy

Testing took place at maximum quality settings (with ray tracing).

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In the Hogwarts Legacy game at 1920x1080, the ASUS GeForce RTX 4070 DUAL OC with an average FPS of 55 and a minimum FPS of 46 offers high performance, surpassing the performance of the RX 6800 XT. With DLSS 3.0 enabled, the performance of the ASUS GeForce RTX 4070 DUAL OC improves significantly, with an average FPS of 135 and a minimum FPS of 113.

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At 2560x1440, the ASUS GeForce RTX 4070 DUAL OC with an average FPS of 43 and a minimum FPS of 34 offers good performance, while being inferior to the GEFORCE RTX 3080. With DLSS 3.0 enabled, the performance of the ASUS GeForce RTX 4070 DUAL OC improves significantly, with an average FPS of 103 and a minimum FPS 81.

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In Hogwarts Legacy at 3840x2160, ASUS GeForce RTX 4070 DUAL OC with an average FPS of 24 and a minimum FPS of 18 offers insufficient performance behind the GEFORCE RTX 3080. With DLSS 3.0 enabled, the performance of the ASUS GeForce RTX 4070 DUAL OC improves significantly, with an average FPS of 60 and minimum FPS 49.

Resident Evil 4

Testing took place at maximum quality settings with RT

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ASUS GeForce RTX 4070 DUAL OC performs well compared to Radeon RX 6800 XT and performs better than GEFORCE RTX 3080.

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In Resident Evil 4 at 2560x1440, the ASUS GeForce RTX 4070 DUAL OC performs slightly worse than the Radeon RX 6800 XT, but better than the GEFORCE RTX 3080.

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At 3840x2160, ASUS GeForce RTX 4070 DUAL OC performs slightly worse than all graphics cards...

The Last of Us Part I

Testing was carried out at maximum quality settings.

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At 1920x1080 in The Last of Us Part I, the ASUS GeForce RTX 4070 DUAL OC graphics card shows an average FPS of 107 and is equal in performance to the GEFORCE RTX 3080 10 GB.

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ASUS GeForce RTX 4070 DUAL OC 12 GB performs better in The Last of Us Part I at 2560x1440 than GeForce RTX 3080 10 GB and Radeon RX 6800 XT 16 GB.

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ASUS GeForce RTX 4070 DUAL OC at 3840x2160 in The Last of Us Part I has an average and minimum FPS of 37 and 35, respectively, and is on par with the GEFORCE RTX 3080 graphics card.

The Witcher 3

Testing took place at maximum quality settings with RT.

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ASUS GeForce RTX 4070 DUAL OC 12 GB produces one of the worst results among all video cards at 1920x1080 in The Witcher 3. At the same time, the use of DLSS 3.0 technology significantly improves the performance of the video card.

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And again, the inclusion of DLSS 3.0 turns the video card from an outsider into a leader, in this case, the ASUS GeForce RTX 4070 DUAL OC is second only to the RTX 4070 Ti.

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ASUS GeForce RTX 4070 DUAL OC 12 GB performs better than Radeon RX 6800 XT 16 GB, but lower than GEFORCE RTX 3080 10 GB and Asus ROG GeForce RTX 4070 Ti STRIX OC 12 GB. However, it is worth noting that all video cards without the use of FSR or DLSS technologies provide low performance, insufficient for comfortable gameplay.

When using FSR technology for Radeon RX 6800 XT 16 GB and DLSS for Nvidia graphics cards, the performance of all models is noticeably improved. ASUS GeForce RTX 4070 DUAL OC 12 GB with DLSS 3.0 enabled is vastly superior to the Radeon RX 6800 XT 16 GB with FSR, as well as the GEFORCE RTX 3080 10 GB with DLSS.

Cyberpunk 2077v. 1.62 Ray Tracing "Overdrive"

Testing took place at maximum quality settings and with ray tracing.

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At 1920x1080, the ASUS GeForce RTX 4070 DUAL OC 12 GB shows average performance compared to other graphics cards. But with the use of DLSS 3.0, the performance is increased by more than 3 times, surpassing other graphics cards.

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At a resolution of 2560x1440, the ASUS GeForce RTX 4070 DUAL OC 12 GB shows uncomfortable results, but with DLSS 3.0 activated, the performance increases significantly, making it competitive with other graphics cards.

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At a resolution of 3840x2160, only using DLSS 3.0 gives a playable frame rate on ASUS GeForce RTX 4070 DUAL OC 12 GB.

CONCLUSION

ASUS GeForce RTX 4070 DUAL OC is a good upgrade alternative for users with GeForce GTX 1080 or GeForce RTX 2070 graphics cards. With the latest RT and Tensor cores from NVIDIA, this solution provides high performance and support for modern technologies such as Displaced Micro-Meshes and NVIDIA DLSS 3 while consuming less power than the RTX 3070 Ti.

One of the main advantages of the video card is its dual-fan cooling system, which ensures low temperatures under high loads and minimal noise levels. In addition, support for Ray Tracing and DLSS 3.0 technologies allows you to achieve more realistic graphics in games and applications, which increases the satisfaction of the gaming process.

Thus, ASUS GeForce RTX 4070 DUAL OC is an excellent choice for those who are looking for a high-quality and productive graphics card for gaming and graphics work. It delivers superior performance and functionality, as well as an efficient cooling system and support for the latest graphics technologies.

Advantages

- excellent cooling system

- compactness

- low power consumption and temperature

- DLSS 3.0 support

Disadvantages

- video card in native 4K sometimes shows lower performance than its cost counterparts - Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 and AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT