Review and testing of the GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 4070 Ti GAMING OC graphics card
In our test, this time the GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 4070 Ti GAMING OC video card, based on the RTX 4070Ti, respectively, participates.
| APPEARANCE AND CHARACTERISTICS |
This subsection of our review reveals the main aspects of the GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 4070 Ti GAMING OC, such as appearance and hardware configuration.
The GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 4070 Ti GAMING OC comes in a very compact package where everything is aesthetically pleasing and beautifully packaged.
The GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 4070 Ti GAMING OC kit includes the graphics card itself, a power adapter, and assembled graphics card stands.
The GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 4070 Ti GAMING OC graphics card occupies 3 PCI-E slots.
On the side we have a 12-pin power connector, a typical phenomenon for all recent video cards.
The video card has 4 video outputs - HDMI and 3 DisplayPort, all of which support 8K resolution.
On the reverse side of the back plate, the GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 4070 Ti GAMING 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.
GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 4070 Ti GAMING OC is significantly smaller than our last reviewer, ASUS ROG Strix GeForce RTX 4070 Ti OC
| 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.
| HEATING AND POWER CONSUMPTION |
The GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 4070 Ti GAMING OC gluttony test was conducted in conjunction with an Intel Core i9 13900K 3.2 GHz + Z690 AORUS MASTER in a closed Thermaltake Core V51 case.
Now let's summarize these temperature and power consumption indicators in tables, with the results we obtained earlier:
As we can see, the power consumption of the GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 4070 Ti GAMING OC card is 285 watts in FurMark, and 243 watts in games.
The temperature regime of the GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 4070 Ti GAMING OC card reaches a maximum of 63 degrees in the stress test and up to 58 degrees in games.
| TEST PART |
| Test configuration | |
| test stands |
GIGABYTE Z790 GAMING XAX 32 GB DDR5 6000@6400 CL30 KingstonFURY Renegade Kingston FURY Renegade PCIe 4.0 NVMe M.2 SSD Case MPG CORELIQUID K240 |
| 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 528.49 WHQL AMD Radeon Adrenalin Edition 23.2.2 |
| Monitoring programs |
MSI Afterburner |
| GAMES |
| God of War |
Testing was carried out at maximum quality settings.
| Dying Light 2 Stay Human |
Testing took place at maximum quality settings with RT.
| A Plague Tale: Requiem |
Testing took place at maximum quality settings (with ray tracing).
| Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales |
Testing took place at maximum quality settings (with ray tracing).
| The Callisto Protocol |
Testing took place at maximum quality settings (with ray tracing).
| Forspoken |
Testing took place at maximum quality settings (with ray tracing).
| dead space |
Testing took place at maximum quality settings (with ray tracing).
| Hogwarts Legacy |
Testing took place at maximum quality settings (with ray tracing).
| returnal |
Testing took place at maximum quality settings (with and without ray tracing).
| CONCLUSION |
Based on the consideration of the characteristics and test results of this video card, we can draw the following general conclusions:
- Gigabyte GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Gaming OC is a powerful enough graphics card that can provide high performance in many modern games and applications.
- The card has an excellent cooling system, which allows it to operate at high frequencies and not overheat.
- Relatively low noise level during card operation.
- Gigabyte GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Gaming OC has a large number of different ports, which makes it convenient to use in various systems.
Overall, the Gigabyte GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Gaming OC is a quality and powerful graphics card that is designed for gamers and users who require high performance in their applications. However, the cost can be quite high for some users, which should be considered when choosing a graphics card.
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
Disadvantages
- at the moment there are no obvious disadvantages of the card