Review and testing of the ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 4070 Ti OC graphics card
This time, our test involves the new ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 4070 Ti OC (TUF-RTX4070TI-O12G-GAMING) video card, kindly provided to us by ASUS.
| APPEARANCE AND CHARACTERISTICS |
This subsection of our review reveals the main aspects of the ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 4070 Ti OC, such as appearance and hardware configuration.
| APPEARANCE AND CHARACTERISTICS |
The ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 4070 Ti OC comes in a very compact package where everything is aesthetically pleasing and nicely packaged.
The ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 4070 Ti OC kit includes the graphics card itself, a power adapter, and a stylish screwdriver.
The ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 4070 Ti OC graphics card takes up only 2.5 PCI-E slots, which at the moment is a good compact size among other giants...
On the side we have a 12-pin power connector, a typical phenomenon for all recent video cards.
The video card has 5 video outputs - 2 HDMI and 3 DisplayPort, all of which support 8K resolution.
The video card also boasts five heat pipes, which effectively transfer heat to a massive radiator, despite the modest size of the video card.
On the reverse side of the back plate, the ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 4070 Ti OC has a cutout for better airflow through the heatsink array. Also on the reverse side we see the video card BIOS switch, which allows you to switch between quiet mode and performance mode.
Compared to ASUS TUF Gaming Radeon RX 7900 XT OC Edition, ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 4070 Ti OC looks very compact and will eventually fit most cases!
| ARCHITECTURE |
The GeForce RTX 4070 Ti is based on the AD104 GPU and features 7680 CUDA cores delivering 40 shader teraflops with FP32 precision for graphics rendering, 240 gen 4 tensor cores offering 641 trillion sparse matrix operations for AI and DLSS processing, 60 RT 3 cores generations of Ada architecture with 93 RT-TFLOPS performance for next-generation ray-traced graphics acceleration and 12GB of GDDR6X memory. Like all GeForce RTX 40 series GPUs, the RTX 4070 Ti features 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, 4th Gen Tensor Cores to improve AI performance, 8th Gen encoders with support for AV1 encoding and decoding, and DLSS enhancements that deliver high frame rates in competitive games and ultra settings with ray tracing enabled.
NVIDIA Ada Streaming Multiprocessor
RTX video cards have three main processors: programmable universal CUDA cores, which process general-purpose shaders and CUDA applications, RT cores to accelerate the calculation of ray intersections with triangles and bounding volumes, Ada architecture RT cores doubled the rate of calculation of intersections with triangles, the last processor type - artificial intelligence processing pipeline called tensor cores.
Ada improves on 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 a 2x speedup for ray tracing shaders. SER is as big an innovation for GPUs as out-of-order execution once was for CPUs.
Gen 4 Tensor Cores: The new Tensor Core in Ada includes the NVIDIA Hopper FP8 Transformer Engine delivering up to 641 FP8 precision tensor teraflops on sparse matrices in the RTX 4070 Ti for training and AI inference, up from 174 tensor teraflops on sparse matrices in the RTX 3070 Ti. Compared to FP16, FP8 reduces memory requirements by half and doubles AI performance.
Gen 3 RT Cores: The new Opacity Micromap Engine averages twice the speed of intersection calculations for surfaces with a texture transparency test when developers use this feature, and the new Micro-Mesh Engine increases geometric detail without the cost of assembling and storing BVH. Ada's throughput on crossover tests is 93 RT-TFLOPS compared to the 3070 Ti's 42.5 RT-TFLOPS.
4th Generation Tensor Cores
Tensor cores are high-performance computing cores specialized and adapted for matrix multiplication and addition operations that are used in artificial intelligence applications and for high performance computing. Tensor cores provide revolutionary performance for matrix calculations, which are critical for training multilayer neural networks and inferencing already trained networks. Example applications with inference include NVIDIA DLSS 3 for gamers, where a separate neural network is responsible for generating high-quality frames, all powered by the NVIDIA Tensor Core. DLSS has become so popular that there are already over 250 games that support this technology, in which gamers can double the performance with one click. Besides, Many creative apps have begun using AI features to help artists create content faster and with better quality. Today, more than 110 popular creative applications use tensor and RT core acceleration on RTX graphics cards. And exclusive NVIDIA applications such asBroadcast and Canvas offer tools to remove noise, create 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 that supported many new data types and added structured sparsity acceleration to double the throughput of previous Turing cores. Ada generation tensor cores support the new FP8 data format, first introduced in the NVIDIA Hopper GPU architecture. Compared to FP16, FP8 reduces storage requirements by half 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 dedicated hardware blocks for speeding up BVH traversal and ray-triangle intersection calculations, which are critical to speeding up 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 for other tasks such as pixel shading, vertex shading and general purpose calculations.
Ada architecture RT cores provide 2x faster triangle ray intersection testing compared to NVIDIA Ampere GPUs, allowing developers to add more detail to their virtual worlds. Ada RT cores also include new Opacity Micromap Engine blocks that speed up alpha-tested geometry tracing by a factor of 2, which will help developers speed up resource-intensive scenes with vegetation and particle effects up to 2x for tracing. The new RT cores also include Displaced MicroMesh Engine blocks, which generate micromesh on the fly to create additional geometry.
All of these ray-traced performance enhancements give the Ada architecture a big head start. As new games emerge that use Ada technologies to boost performance, the RTX 40-series graphics cards will undoubtedly get faster and further ahead of the previous generation of RTX 30-series graphics cards. An example is the recent remaster of Portal with RTX based on the 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 DLSS, and with the DLSS 3 frame generator, the advantage can be up to 5x.
| GPU Tweak III OPERATING MODES |
| HEATING AND POWER CONSUMPTION |
Gluttony test ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 4070 Ti OC was conducted in conjunction with Intel Core i9 13900K 3.2 GHz + Z690 AORUS MASTER in a closed case Thermaltake Core V51:
In the "Donut" in the stock mode ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 4070 Ti OC shows 65 degrees, the 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 summarize these temperature and power consumption indicators in 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 regime of the ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 4070 Ti OC card reaches a maximum of 65 degrees. Temperature indicators, as for such a compact cooling, are simply excellent! It is also worth noting that under load ASUS TUF Gaming GEFORCE RTX 4070 Ti OC is almost silent...
| TEST PART |
| Test configuration | |
| test stands |
32 GB DDR5 6000@6400 CL30 KingstonFURY Renegade Kingston FURY Renegade PCIe 4.0 NVMe M.2 SSD  |
| multimedia equipment |
Power Supply Seasonic PRIME TX-1000 |
| 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 section.
In Horizon Zero Dawn, the performance of the ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 4070 Ti OC is on par with the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti.
| Cyberpunk 2077 |
Testing took place at maximum quality settings and with ray tracing. Our test section.
In Cyberpunk 2077, the ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 4070 Ti OC DLSS performance helps the graphics card to show quite decent results, significantly outperforming the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti.
Testing took place at maximum quality settings and with ray tracing. Our test section.
But in this game, ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 4070 Ti OC is 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 the benchmark.
In Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition, the performance of ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 4070 Ti OC is slightly higher than that of GeForce RTX 3080 Ti.
| God of War |
Testing took place at maximum + quality settings. Our test section.
In God of War, the ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 4070 Ti OC is only slightly behind 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 section.
In Dying Light 2 Stay Human, the ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 4070 Ti OC beats 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, the ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 4070 Ti OC outperforms the Radeon RX 6900 XT , but is inferior to the ASUS TUF Gaming Radeon RX 7900 XT OC Edition.
| F1 22 |
Testing took place at maximum quality settings and with ray tracing. Our test section.
In F1 22, the performance of ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 4070 Ti OC is slightly higher than that of 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 section.
In Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered, ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 4070 Ti OC performs faster than ASUS Radeon RX 7900 XTX.
| Gotham Knights |
Testing took place at maximum quality settings and with ray tracing. Our test section.
In 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 of how ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 4070 Ti OC with DLSS 3.0 performs in the most significant recent games, where there is a real need for it:
As we can see, turning DLSS 3.0 into quality mode at the slightest loss in image quality gives a twofold increase in performance.
Well, based on the testing of ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 4070 Ti OC (TUF-RTX4070TI-O12G-GAMING), we first 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 almost inaudible. We also note a 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 is swinging 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 the comparison with the previous generation GeForce RTX 3080 Ti graphics card, 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, which causes comfortable temperatures and a comfortable noise level in games
- compact dimensions
- low power supply requirements
- excellent performance with RT
- DLSS 3.0 support
Cons
- without ray tracing, the card is inferior to the RX 7900 XTX in 4K
And of course, not all of our ASUS TUF Gaming GEFORCE RTX 4070 Ti OC tests are here - in order to keep the intrigue for the annual reviews, so visit the site daily for more results of our new products!
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| T eats 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Rating 100% [9 Votes] | GEFORCE RTX 4070 Ti 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Rating 76% [12 Votes] | Radeon RX 7900 XT 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Rating 76% [11 Votes] |
