Introduction & Specification
The RTX 4070 SUPER stands to be the most compelling value amongt all of NVIDIA’s current crop of card despite the likes of the RTX 4070 Ti SUPER potentially spelling much better benefits in certain scenarios for mainstream users. But right now, the mainstream is mostly underserved, forced to step up their budgets because of the lack of raw uplift from the prior generation.
- Introduction & Specification
- Product Gallery
- Power Draw, Temperature and Clock Speed Analysis
- Performance Testing – Setup & Methodology
- Counter-Strike 2
- DOTA 2
- PUBG Battlegrounds
- Valorant
- Rainbow Six Siege
- The Last of Us Part 1 Remastered
- Forza Horizon 5
- Far Cry 6
- A Plague Tale: Requiem
- Hogwarts Legacy
- Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered
- F1 2023
- Cyberpunk 2077
- Resident Evil 4
- Returnal
- Average Performance
- Relative Performance
- Ray Tracing
- Conclusion
This has put price conscious buyers on the alert for the best deals for cards and has carved a larger gap for brands to squeeze in product families for budget gamers all the way to rockstar enthusiasts. In this review, we’ll be looking at the Palit RTX 4070 SUPER Dual: currently positioned as the most value-based offering amongst all RTX 4070 SUPER in the Philippines, especially tthe MSRP non-OC models.
The Palit RTX 4070 SUPER is an essentials–first product, focusing on straight-up GPU performance with adequate cooling for any user. Find out more in this in-depth look at the Palit GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER Dual graphics card. Read on!
Video Review
| RTX 4070 Ti SUPER | RTX 4070 Ti | RTX 4070 SUPER | RTX 4070 | RTX 3070 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DLSS | DLSS 3 | DLSS 3 | DLSS 3 | DLSS 3 | DLSS 2 |
| Shader Cores | Ada Lovelace 44 TFLOPS | Ada Lovelace 40 TFLOPS | Ada Lovelace 36 TFLOPS | Ada Lovelace 29 TFLOPS | Ampere 20 TFLOPS |
| Ray Tracing Cores | 3rd Gen 102 TFLOPS | 3rd Gen 93 TFLOPS | 3rd Gen 82 TFLOPS | 3rd Gen 67 TFLOPS | 2nd Gen 40 TFLOPS |
| Tensor Cores (AI) | 4th Gen 706 AI TOPS | 4th Gen 641 AI TOPS | 4th Gen 568 AI TOPS | 4th Gen 466 AI TOPS | 3rd Gen 163 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 |
Product Gallery
Palit’s Dual series of graphics card serves as their mainstream offering. Curiously, it shares its series name with ASUS’ DUAL series line and both fill the same purpose but so far we’ve not seen anyone complaining of confusion. Back to the graphics card at hand, the Palit RTX 4070 SUPER Dual continues the RTX 40-series’ Dual style from Palit with a plastic shroud and backplate adorning a slim 2-slot height heatsink cooled by a pair of 95mm fans which support idle-stop for 0db idle fans.
We’ve looked at the Palit RTX 4060 Dual before which features a smaller footprint than the RTX 4070 SUPER Dual but ultimately features similar design traits. Out of the box, the fans on this card are tuned to be on the low RPM side so they run very quiet but stay within 80*C, this does cause >80*C hotspot temperature which is alleviated by providing a custom fan curve.
Palit has a 3D-printed initiative for their GamingPro and Dual series card which allows users to 3D-print their own custom covers and customize them to their hearts’ content. Those without 3D printers may commission or have their projects printed via a 3rd-party service and painted and assembled afterwards.
Power Draw, Temperature and Clock Speed Analysis
Given that most cards will boost all the way to their highest potential, the numbers we see here should be a good indicator of what to expect from these cards in general. Results are captured via inline power metering instruments primarily Powenetics v2 by Cybenetics/Hardware Busters for accurate card-only data capture. Occassionally, we use PCAT v2 (or v1) for FrameView-related functionalities. Powenetics v2 is the modern iteration of our original Powenetics system licensed from Cybenetics Labs and allows more thorough read-outs for the entire system including the CPU power, GPU power (+PCIe slot) and the system power overall. This removes the guess work from taking power readings from differing GPU APIs and provides consistent readings regardless of vendors.
Clock Speed Behavior and Temp-Power Behavior
Clock speed is directly affected by the GPU and the dynamic boost clock will take advantage of cooler GPUs as it pushes clock speed higher. In the charts below we show the test card’s behavior under gaming load: one chart shows the GPU clock speed and its relation with GPU core temperature while the other shows temperature and relative to power draw.
To interpret the charts, as the card heats up, there is a potential for the GPU speed to go down. A steady decline means that the card cannot sustain its boost clocks which means cooling is inadequate. A consistent temperature with consistent clock speed means this is our stable GPU clock speed and is the intended speed for this GPU.
Contributing to increased heat is power draw. If a GPU cannot fully contain its heat dissipation, higher power draw can cause it to heat-up further. A steady rise in temperatures will result in a decline in clock speeds as well as power draw. The power readings are strictly from the GPU alone as gathered by our instrumentation as indicated above.
Temperature and Power Draw Charts
Performance Testing – Setup & Methodology
Processor: Intel Core i9-14900K
Memory: Kingston FURY Renegade DDR5-7600 C38 32GB
Storage: Kingston FURY Renegade 2TB SSD , 4TB+4TB iSCSI LUN over Thunderbolt 3
PSU: FSP Hydro G Pro 1000W
Cooling: ROG Ryuo II 360 AIO Cooler
Monitor: ROG PG27UQ 4K 144hz HDR1000
VGA: Listed
For a full-hardware workout, visit https://benchmarks.ul.com for our system warm-up and stress test of choice. We have now switched to a full 20-minute run of Speed Way stress test to warm-up our graphics cards as well as capture our clock speed chart.
For benchmarking methodology please see our game benchmarking method guide.
Test results are gathered and produced on CapFrameX. This makes it easier for use to get both line graph comparison and raw averages without extra tools. Simply the easiest tool for benchmarking and its available for everyone to use, free of charge. Check it out at capframex.com.
Since this is a GPU review, we benchmarked the area of the games that put heavy load on the GPU.
All our test runs are repeatable, click the links below for area and details. Read our benchmarking methodology.
- Counter-Strike 2: Mirage map custom scene
- DOTA2 – Dacha Dubai 2024: Xtreme Gaming vs. Team Liquid [56:25]
- PUBG Battlegrounds – Custom Scene
- Valorant – custom scene
- Rainbow Six Siege: in-game benchmark
- The Last of Us Part I – Game prologue – town panic area
- Forza Horizon 5 – Panoramica Sprint (Benchmark Mode)
- Far Cry 6 – in-game benchmark (+RT)
- A Plague’s Tale: Reqiuem – opening chase with Hugo, Amicia and Lucas (+RT)
- Hogwarts Legacy – Hogsmeade Square loop (+RT)
- Marvel’s Spider-Man – Empire State area block loop (+RT)
- F1 2023 – Singapore, night time, wet (in-game benchmark) (+RT)
- Cyberpunk 2077 – in-game benchmark (+RT)
- Returnal – in-game benchmark (+RT)
- Resident Evil 4 (Remake) – the path across the bridge after the first house (+RT)
See our Youtube playlist for benchmark sequences.
Note: Proprietary technologies of NVIDIA like PCSS, HBAO+, and HairWorks work on AMD GPU’s BUT to maintain uniformity amongst GPUs, these have been turned OFF. Ray tracing has its own dedicared performance section. Upscaling technologies are covered in their own dedicated articles. Upscaling summary will be briefly presented in this section.
For this test, only the out-of-box normal mode will be tested. Most cards that have dual BIOSes for Quiet and Performance will be tested in Performance mode.
Notes:
- All data are gathered from exactly the same system, with exactly the configuration we list here. No data is reused from another system or from any variations. We gather data from only one system as indicated here.
- Graphics cards are allowed to heat up prior to benchmarking. Cooler graphics cards may boost higher than normal.
- Following up on the above, we try to enjoy the game and play a bit before proceeding to the actual benchmark scenario. This allows us to detect any other problems like stuttering, frame skipping, or any other problems.
- Games that receive graphical updates that affect performance like DOTA2 moving from DX9 to DX11, Rainbow Six Siege changing its detail presets, etc. will be retested completely.
Counter-Strike 2
Released: 2023 | DirectX 11 | Source 2
DOTA 2
Released: 2013 | DirectX 11 | Source 2
PUBG Battlegrounds
Released: 2017 | DirectX 11 | Unreal Engine 4
Valorant
Released: 2020 | DirectX 11 | Unreal Engine 4
[amcharts id=”FPS-chart-rev” data-file=”/data/GPU/GPUDB-Q2-2024/GPU-DB-Perf.csv” data-game=”Valorant” data-mode=”Raster” data-sort=”asc” data-highlight=”PALIT RTX 4070 SUPER Dual”]Rainbow Six Siege
Released: 2015 | DirectX 11 | AnvilNext 2.0
The Last of Us Part 1 Remastered
Released: 2023 | DirectX 12 | In-house Engine
Forza Horizon 5
Released: 2021 | DirectX 12 | ForzaTech
Far Cry 6
Released: 2021 | DirectX 12 | Dunia 2.0
[amcharts id=”FPS-chart-rev” data-file=”/data/GPU/GPUDB-Q2-2024/GPU-DB-Perf.csv” data-game=”Far Cry 6″ data-mode=”Raster” data-sort=”asc” data-highlight=”PALIT RTX 4070 SUPER Dual”]A Plague Tale: Requiem
Released: 2022 | DirectX 12 | Zouna
Hogwarts Legacy
Released: 2023 | DirectX 12 | Unreal Engine 4
Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered
Released: 2022 | DirectX 12 | In-house Engine
F1 2023
Released: 2023 | DirectX 12 | Ego Engine 4.0
Cyberpunk 2077
Released: 2020 | DirectX 12 | REDengine 4
Resident Evil 4
Released: 2023 | DirectX 12 | RE Engine
Returnal
Released: 2023 | DirectX 12 | Unreal Engine 4.0
Average Performance
In this section we take the geometric mean of all the values for our games and display both for each resolution of performance for traditional raster and ray traced performance. We switched from arithmetic mean (average) due to the effect of esports games and their large FPS value on the overall average. The geometric mean shows us a more balanced view of overall performance across our tested games.
[amcharts id=”FPS-Chart-Geomean” data-file=”/data/GPU/GPUDB-Q2-2024/GPU-DB-Perf.csv” data-mode=”Raster” data-sort=”asc” data-highlight=”PALIT RTX 4070 SUPER Dual”]Relative Performance
The chart below shows the relative performance of our tested card against the general performance of other GPUs we’ve tested.
[amcharts id=”FPS-Chart-Rel” data-file=”/data/GPU/GPUDB-Q2-2024/GPU-DB-Perf.csv” data-mode=”Raster” data-sort=”asc” data-highlight=”PALIT RTX 4070 SUPER Dual”]Ray Tracing
Aside from a pair of games, all of our games after our esports batch are tested with ray tracing enabled. The chart below shows the overall ray tracing performance of the GPUs tested followed by individual results. The percentage next to the FPS result is the performance penalty of ray tracing enabled versus when ray tracing is off or what is also referred to as rasterization.
Ray Tracing Geomean Performance (8 Games)
[amcharts id=”FPS-Chart-Geomean” data-file=”/data/GPU/GPUDB-Q2-2024/GPU-DB-Perf.csv” data-mode=”Ray Tracing” data-sort=”asc” data-highlight=”PALIT RTX 4070 SUPER Dual”]Individual Results
[amcharts id=”FPS-RT-Diff” data-file=”/data/GPU/GPUDB-Q2-2024/GPU-DB-Perf.csv” data-mode=”Ray Tracing” data-sort=”asc” data-highlight=”PALIT RTX 4070 SUPER Dual”]Conclusion
The Palit GeForce RTX 4070 Dual is exactly the right card for those either looking for a budget option or want or an RTX 4070 SUPER that fits exactly in a 2-slot height space. While there are other options out there for that second reason, pricing will be a factor for some and its going to be hard to contend with the Palit RTX 4070 SUPER Dual’s current listing.
In terms of overall performance, the RTX 4070 SUPER seems the most ideal amongst the current crop of RTX 40-series cards especially if you’re previously on a similar tier card from maybe 4 or so older generation. Anyone with an RTX 3070 would probbaly not need to dive to an RTX 40 for most gaming needs unless they can utilize RTX 40 tech like Frame Generation but for the most part if you do feel like upgrading, the RTX 4070 SUPER sites at the same price as the post-cryptoboom RTX 3070 pricing which unfortunately is just around 2 years ago.
Focusing on the Palit RTX 4070 SUPER Dual itself, there’s really not much to say. Its the definitive reference RTX 4070 SUPER experience and its as intended. Perfect for high-refresh rate 1080p esports or mainstream 1440p, the xx70 class of GeForce cards have been a stalwart champion for those going from 1080p to 1440p and the RTX 4070 SUPER continues that tradition.
The Palit RTX 4070 SUPER Dual has all the hallmark of a reliable card and as a Palit owner of at least one card from every generation, this card seems to be another reliable addition in that family. Palit backs the GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER Dual with a 3-year warranty. It earns a Best Value award for its pricing position (for non-OC variant).
