Review and Testing of the Asus ROG Strix GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER OC
As part of this review, we will look at the Asus ROG Strix GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER OC video card, which is based on the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER GPU. We will test this card in various games and compare its performance with other video cards on the market.
| APPEARANCE AND CHARACTERISTICS |
This subsection of our review highlights the main aspects of the Asus ROG Strix GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER OC, such as appearance and hardware configuration.
| APPEARANCE AND CHARACTERISTICS |
Asus ROG Strix GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER OC comes in a compact package that ensures safe transportation of the video card. Inside the package there is a stylish black box, where all components are additionally protected and neatly laid out.
The packaging and box have a modern and aesthetic design that matches the style of the Asus ROG Strix GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER OC. This makes the packaging and box not only functional, but also visually attractive.
Compact packaging and a colorful box are made in such a way as to ensure safe transportation and easy storage of the Asus ROG Strix GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER OC. Users can rest assured that their graphics card will be protected during shipping and storage, while ensuring all components are in pristine condition.
The Asus ROG Strix GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER OC kit includes not only the video card itself, but a 16-pin power adapter.
Asus ROG Strix GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER OC has a standard 16-pin power connector on the side of the video card. This provides enough power to maintain high performance and efficient cooling.
The Asus ROG Strix GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER OC graphics card is equipped with multiple video outputs, including HDMI and DisplayPort, supporting high definition. This allows users to connect high-definition monitors or TVs, providing high-quality images and graphics.
The Asus ROG Strix GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER OC also features improved cooling capabilities, including case fan headers, which provide additional cooling during intense work or gaming.
The backplate of the Asus ROG Strix GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER OC features a special cutout to improve airflow, as well as a BIOS switch to select between high performance mode and low noise mode, giving the user flexibility in choosing the graphics card operation mode.
| ARCHITECTURE |
NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER is a powerful graphics card designed for gamers and creative professionals who demand high performance. It is built on the NVIDIA Ada Lovelace architecture, known for its efficiency and advanced capabilities. This architecture increases the performance of the card, especially in tasks related to artificial intelligence and ray tracing.
The card offers enhanced gaming immersion and realistic graphics by leveraging NVIDIA's latest advances in AI and ray tracing. It has features such as DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sampling) that significantly increase frame rates without sacrificing image quality.
Key graphics card specifications include:
- GPU : Based on AD103 GPU.
- Frequencies : Base frequency 2340 MHz and boost frequency 2610 MHz.
- Memory : 16 GB GDDR6X running on a 256-bit bus with a bandwidth of 672.3 GB/s.
- Shader units and cores : 8448 shader units, 264 tensor cores (4th generation) and 66 ray tracing cores (3rd generation).
- Power and Size : TDP (Thermal Design Power) is 285 watts, recommended for use with a 600 watt power supply. Card dimensions - 310 mm x 140 mm x 61 mm.
Features of the NVIDIA Ada architecture include a new shader execution engine (Shader Execution Reordering (SER), new RT cores and an improved version of DLSS, making the RTX 4070 an excellent solution for games at any graphics level.
The GeForce RTX 4070 GPU is ideal for content creation and delivers extreme 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 using artificial intelligence.
NVIDIA Ada Streaming Multiprocessor
The RTX GPU has three main 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 all three RTX processors:
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Programmable Shader: 29 Shader-TFLOPS, compared to 22 TFLOPS on the RTX 3070 Ti. SM Ada includes new Shader Execution Reordering (SER) technology, which 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.
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4th Generation Tensor Cores: New Tensor Cores in Ada include the NVIDIA Hopper FP8 Transformer engine, which delivers over 466 tensor terraflops with sparsity in the RTX 4070 for AI workloads. This is double the 174 tensor terraflops of the RTX 3070 Ti. Compared to FP16, FP8 reduces storage requirements and doubles AI performance.
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3rd Generation RT Cores: New Opacity Micromap Engine speeds up alpha-tested geometry ray tracing by 2x, and new Micro-Mesh Engine allows additional geometry to be created on the fly, allowing for increased geometric complexity without the expense of building and storing BVH . Ray-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 multiplication and accumulation that are used in artificial intelligence and high-performance computing applications. Tensor cores provide breakthrough performance for matrix computations, which are critical for training and inference of deep learning neural networks. Example 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 tools for noise removal, virtual backgrounds, and other capabilities for video broadcasting and video conferencing.
The 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 doubles the throughput of Tensor Cores compared to Turing Tensor Cores. The fourth generation Ada Tensor Cores support the new FP8 data format, which was first introduced in the NVIDIA Hopper GPU architecture. Compared with 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 terraflops of performance for AI inference workloads.
3rd generation RT cores
The third generation of RT cores in the Ada architecture are specialized hardware units for accelerating BVH traversal and performing ray and triangle intersection calculations, which are critical to accelerating ray tracing.
RT cores free up the resources of programmable SM shader cores, allowing them to perform other pixel, vertex, and computation tasks. Ada's RT cores enable ray and triangle intersection testing acceleration up to 2x faster than Ampere GPUs, allowing developers to add more detail to their virtual worlds. The Ada architecture also features the Opacity Micromap Engine, which speeds up ray tracing of alpha-tested geometries by a factor of 2, and the Micro-Mesh Engine, which generates micro-meshes on the fly to generate additional geometry, allowing for increased geometric complexity without the cost of BVH generation and storage.
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 bitrates as H.265/H.264, which is a big advantage for game streaming. When using AV1, users can achieve the same image quality with lower bitrates, resulting in smaller file sizes and faster loading videos. Ada's AV1 encoder is 40% more efficient than Ampere's H.264 encoder.
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So, with advanced technologies and Ada architecture, 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 delivers superior visual quality and performance in today's and tomorrow's games and applications.
| GPU Tweak III OPERATING MODES |
GPU Tweak has updated its interface, making it more accessible and highlighting important features. VF Tuner has also been updated to simplify the manual overclocking process. Exclusive features such as 0dB silent fan technology are complemented by features such as automatic profile switching and monitoring data recording.
Consequently, owners of the Asus ROG Strix GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER OC graphics card have access to a powerful tool for tuning and monitoring the performance of their device, allowing them to best optimize its performance and achieve high image quality.
| HEATING AND POWER CONSUMPTION |
Energy efficiency testing of the Asus ROG Strix GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER OC video card was carried out in an assembly that included an Intel Core i9 14900K processor and an Asus motherboard, mounted in a closed DeepCool CH510 WH case.
As a result of tests performed using the FurMark program, the Asus ROG Strix GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER OC video card showed excellent thermal efficiency and energy efficiency. At full load, the device reached a maximum temperature of 60 degrees Celsius, while its power consumption was 285 watts.
| TEST PART |
| GAMES |
| Hogwarts Legacy |
Video cards were tested at a resolution of 2560x1440 with maximum graphics quality settings.
| Alan Wake 2 |
| Cities Skylines II |
| The Last of Us Part I |
| Dead Space Remake |
| Forspoken |
| Resident Evil 4 |
| RoboCop Rogue City |
| STAR WARS Jedi Survivor |
| Baldur's Gate III |
| Dead Island 2 |
| Diablo IV |
| Lords of the Fallen |
| Ratchet & Clank Rift Apart |
| Remnant II |
| Starfield |
| CONCLUSION |
The Asus ROG Strix GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER OC graphics card is significantly superior to its predecessor, the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti, thanks to a number of improvements and features.
Increased VRAM to 16GB GDDR6X, up from 12GB on the RTX 4070 Ti, is one of the key improvements. This memory expansion allows for higher throughput and efficiency when processing demanding tasks such as 2K games and professional graphics applications.
Higher clock speeds, which are typically found in the Asus ROG Strix lineup, provide improved performance in games and applications, especially in scenarios where the GPU is a key component.
The optimized cooling design in Asus ROG Strix graphics cards includes more efficient fans, improved thermal conductivity and optimized thermal solutions. This is important to maintain high performance and stability of the video card under intense loads.
Advanced fine-tuning and overclocking capabilities allow users to get the most out of their graphics card, including improved fan control, performance monitoring, and custom RGB lighting settings.
The premium materials and components used in the Asus ROG Strix ensure durability and reliability even under continuous use, which is an important factor for demanding users and enthusiasts.
Supporting the latest technologies including ray tracing, DLSS, and other innovations from NVIDIA, the Asus ROG Strix GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER OC is ready for future games and applications.
Overall, the Asus ROG Strix GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER OC is an outstanding choice for gamers and professionals looking for high performance, reliability and customization flexibility.
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