Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super review: a new 4K/1440p contender

There isn't quite the same level of excitement surrounding the RTX 4070 Ti Super as there was with last week's RTX 4070 Super debut. Looking at Nvidia's $599 offering, you got proportionately more CUDA cores and therefore a more comfortable - and consistent - rise to overall performance. The Ti Super boosts specs in ways that will not always guarantee that consistent uptick in performance.

So, it seems to be the case that titles generally fall into two camps - there are games where you get a relatively paltry five to eight percent of additional performance over the outgoing RTX 4070 Ti. And then there are other titles (typically using ray tracing, but there are raster outliers too), which increase performance to the tune of anything up to 15 percent. I wonder if what we're seeing here are games that are fundamentally compute-limited and then others where the extra 33 percent of memory bandwidth makes a big difference.

The impact of the 16GB of framebuffer memory doesn't register on our benchmarks - certainly not to any noticeable degree - but it's certainly essential on a $799 product when we've seen so many instances of poor memory management in recent times, and when the competition is offering 16GB as a baseline on products starting at $499 with the RX 7800 XT.

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In summary, the RTX 4070 Ti Super does what it needs to do at its price-point and is likely more suited to 4K gaming than its predecessor thanks to the extra memory and bandwidth, while the substantial gains it does get seem well-placed to get more out of the most demanding titles hitting the market. It can't provide the kind of value boost the 4070 Super does, but then again, we should expect value to scale upwards more in the lower-end products. Even so, I'd still take the 4070 Ti Super over the RX 7900 XT.

In looking at how the RTX 4070 Ti Super compares to the more expensive RTX 4080, it's either considerably behind or else sits at a kind of midway point between Ti non-Super and the 4080. I'll be interested to see how much of a difference the 4080 Super delivers to see how the deltas adjust - but fundamentally, I expect that the 4080 Super is more price-cut than refresh, and similar to the RTX 2080 Super from back in the day, there's no chance of its performance getting anywhere near the top-of-the-range RTX 4090. Still, we'll find out soon enough.

Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super Analysis

• Introduction
• RT benchmarks: Dying Light 2, Cyberpunk 2077, Control
• RT benchmarks: Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition, F1 22
• RT/DLSS/FSR2/DLSS3 benchmarks: Cyberpunk 2077, Dying Light 2, Forza Horizon 5
• Game benchmarks: Control, Cyberpunk 2077, F1 22, Forza Horizon 5
• Game benchmarks: Hitman 3, A Plague Tale: Requiem, Returnal
• Conclusions and recommendations [This Page]