With the price changes coming after the launch of the RTX 40-SUPER, we’ve seen a decent drop in pricing across the board for NVIDIA’s cards and over half-a-year removed since the launch of the RTX 4070 Ti SUPER, we’re still supplies of the RTX 4070 Ti non-SUPER being sold despite being retired in favor of the SUPER. In terms of raw performance, while the 16GB of video memory made it a point of contention how big of factor that would play in performance, actual world experience will vary and overall performance isn’t as big of a jump. Still, up against its RTX 4070 SUPER sibling, it is a leap in performance.
By this point in time, the biggest deciding factor would be your options and given retailers’ feedback that the RTX 4070 Ti was their faster moving card in the first wave, the RTX 4070 Ti SUPER may still hold on to that position thanks to the better pricing of current RTX 4070 TI SUPERs with higher-tier cards like the COLORFUL iGame RTX 4070 Ti SUPER Vulcan W OC 16GB-V managing a slight bump against other OC’d 4070 Ti non-SUPERs.
Ultimately, the choice between an RTX 4070 Ti SUPER and an RTX 4080 SUPER is still still more than PHP10K+ (>$180), much like the gap between an RTX 4070 SUPER and an RTX 4070 Ti SUPER. This gives much breathing room between options but sees older card models as well as AMD options offer alternatives.
If you want pure raster performance and dont bother with anything else, then the RX 7900 XT but for some reason, by the time of publications, supplies for the XT card are drying up to be replaced by the 7900 GRE which is positioned more to contend with the 4070 SUPER rather than the 4070 Ti SUPER. That said, the only competing option right now for the RTX 4070 TI SUPER is the RTX 4070 TI non-SUPER. Unless you can find the RTX 4070 TI non-SUPER for PHP10K less than the SUPER, the 4070 TI SUPER is easily the better choice.
Focusing on the COLORFUL RTX 4070 Ti SUPER Vulcan W OC and the Vulcan OC (black version), they’re easily a decent choice for those that like how COLORFUL adds embellishments to their cards. COLORFUL has had a unique appeal to them and with the VULCAN series cards, it sprinkles a swappable LCD that can be displayed on your desk as a HUD alongside card features like a powerful cooler and a factory OC to go with it. The choice will ultimately boil down to looks, and white version cards that are as decked out as the COLORFUL RTX 4070 Ti SUPER Vulcan W OC with the closest competing model being the blocky AERO from GIGABYTE as ASUS’s white TUF cards already start at PHP10k higher than the PHP59K average price of the COLORFUL RTX 4070 Ti SUPER Vulcan W OC.
Whichever way you look at it, most cards at this tier will perform roughly the same and anything on top of that would be cooling and build quality. While reviews from the west would vary depending on how they perceive COLORFUL’s Chinese origin, it can’t be discounted that we’re talking about the biggest local brand for GPUs in China and COLORFUL’s history in the internati0nal market has now been very solid so there’s no need to fret when it comes to the brands origin.
All in all, the COLORFUL RTX 4070 Ti SUPER Vulcan W OC is a great value card undercutting many of the other high-end RTX 4070 TI SUPER options in the Philippine local market. The only other choice would be COLORFUL’s non-iGame cards. Still, if you’re specifically intrigued by this card for your white build then the COLORFUL RTX 4070 Ti SUPER Vulcan W OC is a great choice.
COLORFUL RTX 4070 Ti SUPER Vulcan W OC with a 3-year warranty. I give it my B2G Recommended Seal.
