Introduction & Specification
Remember the RTX 4080 12GB? It became the RTX 4070 Ti and finally its now a formal RTX 4070 Ti 16GB. Its still not a an RTX 4080, much less an RTX 4080 SUPER but regardless, between the top RTX 40 SUPER card released last month and the new RTX 4070 SUPER, the RTX 4070 TI SUPER appears to be the winner when it comes to overall improvements amongst the three. NVIDIA is not releasing a Founders Edition of the RTX 4070 Ti SUPER but for this review we have the much more desirable ASUS TUF GAMING RTX 4070 Ti SUPER non-OC graphics card.
NVIDIA Philippines lists an MSRP of PHP55,420 and much like NVIDIA mandates globally, partners are asked to adhere to this pricing for non-OC cards. That said, ASUS has had good brand equity with their TUF GAMING line-up not just of its good price positioning, but also with its great build quality. This is coupled by the fact that the ASUS TUF GAMING has been predominantly been seen as ASUS consumer-friendly option despite being just a notch below the ROG Strix line.
The ASUS TUF GAMING RTX 30 and RTX 40 graphics card family offered in SRP represents a conundrum not just for ASUS, but everyone else in the bracket as ASUS strong brand power means that an MSRP ASUS TUF GAMING has a higher chance of selling than its counterparts from average buyers. Given that the RTX 4070 Ti is surprisingly a fast-moving option, it makes a lot of sense to really push more of these reference cards just so there’s more good will for the other cards, even though they may be almost 10K PHP higher in price.
The RTX 4070 Ti SUPER in this review is using an AD103 silicon, leaving theAD104 silicon found on all the RTX 4070 cards including both SUPER and Ti behind. This puts the RTX 4070 TI SUPER more alike the RTX 4080 than the original RTX 4070 Ti, as it the SUPER gets a wider 256-bit bus along with the increased 16GB memory. Boost clocks remain the same though with the move to Ti SUPER giving us a slight base clock bump. All of this does come with a slight price jump of 50$ in MSRP and around $100 or PHP 6K in Philippine MSRP.
Read on to find out more.
RTX 4070 Ti SUPER | RTX 4070 Ti | RTX 4070 SUPER | RTX 4070 | RTX 3070 | |
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DLSS | DLSS 3 | DLSS 3 | DLSS 3 | DLSS 3 | DLSS 2 |
Shader Cores | Ada Lovelace 44Â TFLOPS | Ada Lovelace 40Â TFLOPS | Ada Lovelace 36Â TFLOPS | Ada Lovelace 29Â TFLOPS | Ampere 20Â TFLOPS |
Ray Tracing Cores | 3rd Gen 102Â TFLOPS | 3rd Gen 93Â TFLOPS | 3rd Gen 82Â TFLOPS | 3rd Gen 67Â TFLOPS | 2nd Gen 40Â TFLOPS |
Tensor Cores (AI) | 4th Gen 706Â AI TOPS | 4th Gen 641Â AI TOPS | 4th Gen 568Â AI TOPS | 4th Gen 466Â AI TOPS | 3rd Gen 163Â AI TOPS |
NVENC | 2x 8th Gen with AV1 | 2x 8th Gen with AV1 | 1x 8th Gen with AV1 | 1x 8th Gen with AV1 | 1x 7th Gen |
VRAM | 16 GB GDDR6X | 12 GB GDDR6X | 12 GB GDDR6X | 12 GB GDDR6X | 8 GB GDDR6 |
4 Comments
It’s kinda embarrassing how close the 4070 Super is to this, or sometimes even beats it by a couple FPS. Wonder if they’ll address that in future drivers
It’s really more of a marketing strategy besides anything else. NV has the memory and silicon surplus to spare and they need to make their GPU look newer for average buyers, moms and dads etc. Overall, performance still gets an uplift and anything largely dependent on texture buffer will really see it perform better. We’d definitely get more performance if they unlocked the damn voltages haha
Also they fixed TLOU Part 1 a lot since launch – VRAM usage at 1440p doesn’t exceed 9.3GB for me with all settings maxed out
13%-15% performance gain from 4070 Super. 1k pesos increase sa price diff for each % lol (36k cheapest 4070 super, 49k cheapest 4070 Ti Super)