Introduction
ZOTAC is taking their AMP EXTREME in a different direction this generation with the RTX 40-series cards now crowned with ZOTAC’s AMP AIRO concept as the top card in the stack. Featuring a decent factory overclock and temps managed by a stylish cooling solution, the new AMP AIRO cooler from ZOTAC curves their previous AMP EXTREME styling for the Ada Lovelace cards.
This time around we’re checking ZOTAC”s take on the RTX 4070 with the top-end ZOTAC RTX 4070 AMP AIRO. Featuring a more compact version of what we’ve seen from the ZOTAC RTX 4090 and RTX 4080 AMP AIRO, the ZOTAC RTX 4070 AMP AIRO has a relativelyt smaller cooler versus the top Ada cards. Its still a thick cooler as a 3-slot height card but card depth is on the more regular side of the spectrum.
It retains the curved RGB light bar that’s the signature AMP AIRO look for this generatikon. It also retains the 16-pin power connector whereas other brands have the liberty of going with a single 8-pin PCIe power connector.
Special Collaboration
We’ve worked with ZOTAC to promote their various collaborations throughout the years with their most recent outing with Resident Evil a particularly memorable one with their limited edition release graphics cards. This time around ZOTAC is again working with Sony Pictures for the new ZOTAC RTX 40-series Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse bundle.
The bundle includes everything pictured above out of the box including a custom design magnetic backplate for your graphics card as well as customization options with fan logo badges and sticks to spice up your case.
Spider-Man: Across th Spider-Verse is the first part of the continuation of Miles Morales’ journey into his superhero life while also balancing his personal life. Things get more complicated in the second movie but not just for him but also Gwen Stacy of Earth-65 who Miles meet from the first film.
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is a 2018 film that broke a lot of records and its direct sequel, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse expands all that by introducing us to a whole lot more Spider-people.
ZOTAC’s collaboration primarily focuses on our main characters from the film: Miles Morales, Gwen Stacy and Miguel O’Hara as Spider-Man, Spider-Woman and Spider-Man 2099 and the artwork is present on the box-art and the custom backplate.
I noted in my review of the previous collaboration that the lack of a custom boxart really reduced the feel of the collab but that one had a fully customized shroud and backplate. This time around, the ZOTAC AMP AIRO gets a vanilla cooler but thanks to the power of magnets (which NVIDIA heavily uses on their FE RTX 40 collab cards) as well as stickers, users have the option of customizing their fan logo.
Since the AMP AIRO only has RGB on the side of the shroud, the backplate is purely cosmetic along with the fan badges so its up to you whether you want to dress it up, it is after all, kind of the whole point.
But ZOTAC reallys knocks it out of the park when it comes to the goodies included. The ZOTAC Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Bundle features a random ZTORM figure stylized into any of the 3 primary Spider-people (Miles, Gwen or Miguel) as well as a ton of stickers plus a tote bag featuring the film’s featured artwork.
Its definitely a niche bundle but a sweet extra if you like Spider-Man and the Spider-Verse movie is a real treat especially if you’ve only been exposed to the live-action films. While both franchises are great, Miles Morales has carved his own name in the comics and has sparated himself as an individual character despite the franchise smothering us with Peter Parkers.
If you’re not a Spider-Man fan, then fear not, this review solely focuses on the ZOTAC RTX 4070 AMP AIRO. And with that, let’s get on with the review. Read on!
Product Gallery – ZOTAC RTX 4070 AMP AIRO
Official product page – ZOTAC RTX 4070 AMP AIRO
Product Gallery: ZOTAC RTX 4070 AMP AIRO SPIDER-MAN Across the Spider-Verse Bundle
Official product page – ZOTAC RTX 4070 AMP AIRO SPIDER-MAN: Across the Spider-Verse Bundle
Power Draw, Clock Speed and Temperature
We start off by testing how high our GPU clocks go as well as how much power our card uses in gaming use. We use the built-in benchmark in Returnal in 4K benchmark as well as Kombustor (when needed) for this tests so that users will have an idea what kind of usage behavior they can see from these cards. Returnal’s benchmark is impressive and gives a good idea on how certain scenario types afffect performance.
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.
Temperature and Power Draw
Temperature during idle have been removed since most graphics cards now have idle fan-stop mode. Any anomaly in temperature and power will be noted should they present themselves.
Comparison – RTX 4070
Most partner cards will perform roughly the same across the board and once a baseline has been established, there’s really not a lot of sense in presenting granular data per partner card. That said, we are moving towards focusing more on unique graphics card traits like cooling, power draw, fan speed, etc after our day 1 review which will usually be represented by either a reference model card or the only card we have at the time, updated later on with a reference card. For now, we’re still developing this methodology but we aim to put GPU models from different brands against each other, showing performance figures primarily representing power, cooling, and clock stability as well as voltage and fan speed.
Test Setup and Methodology
Processor: Intel Core i9-13900K
Memory: Kingston FURY Renegade DDR5-6400 32GB
Storage: Kingston FURY Renegade 2TB SSD
PSU: FSP Hydro G Pro 1000W
Cooling: ROG Ryujin 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.
For benchmarking methodology please see our game benchmark 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: Global Offensive: FPS Benchmark Workshop Map
- DOTA2 –
The International Main Event – Day 6: T1 vs PSG.LGD Game 2 (48:00) – The 10-Man Buyback Fight Rainbow Six: Siege – Benchmark Mode- PUBG Battlegrounds – Custom Scene
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (2022)
- Valorant
Grand Theft Auto V – Palomino HighlandsShadow of the Tomb Raider – Kuwaq YaquDestiny 2 – The Tower- Forza Horizon 5
- The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
Elden Ring – Custom scene, FPS cap removed, offline- Cyberpunk 2077 – Little China, noontime
- Marvel’s Spider-Man – Empire State area
- F1 2023 – Singapore Grand Prix, night time, rain
- Microsoft Flight Simulator – Landing mission, YSSY
- A Plague’s Tale Requiem – Opening scene
See our Youtube playlist for benchmark sequences.
Note: Some 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.
You can click on any of the benchmark charts enlarge. You can also move forward and backwards to quickly navigate through our charts via gallery view. For this test, only the out-of-box normal mode will be tested.
Kindly let me know if you spot an errors in the charts. I do my best to keep them error free but while test results are reliable and accurate, bringing them over to Excel and relying on formulas to generate the reports sometimes can cause mix-ups.
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 of. 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 e.g. (DOTA2 moving from DX9 to DX11) will be retested completely.
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CSGO)
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, popularly known as CSGO, competes for Steam’s most popular game. It has found a resurgence in its popularity and has recently peaked in 2020 in the number of players that play the game. Based on Valve’s Source Engine, the game received major asset overhauls during the years since its inception nearly 10 years ago. Still, it’s a light game and can be played on fairly lighter systems but the competitive scene for CSGO has seen average players demand high FPS from their systems thus gaining favorable standing with GPU vendors just from the demand for higher FPS alone. CSGO is a game that can easily go past 500FPS on enthusiast systems on maximum settings. We’re including CSGO as requested by our community.
API: DirectX9 (default)
Maximum In-Game Settings
Texture Streaming Disabled
Vsync OFF
DOTA 2
Note: JUNE 2020 – DOTA2 has recently implemented a transition from DirectX9 to DirectX11 and new install of the game will prompt users to switch from DX9 to DX11. With that said, we are testing DOTA2 in DX11 from now on.
In contention for the most popular game on Steam and the biggest competition in eSports: DOTA 2 is powered by the Source 2 engine. The game is fairly light on low to medium settings but maxed out, with heavy action on screen especially during clashes, can really stress most systems. This is a game where frame times matter as responsiveness is very important in high-stakes competition. We’re looking at consistently low frametimes in this game for the best experience
Our test uses actual game replay, using the segment from game 2 of PSG.LGD versus T1 during Day 6 of the Main Stage. The clash during the 48:00 where we see a drawn-out fight which sees both team expending all of their buybacks to secure this clash.
You can watch the replay of the actual game used in the benchmark in your Dota2 client. You can browse the TI10 replay files to see the actual match. You can download it for your own reference. (save it to your DOTA2 replays folder)
API: DirectX11 (default)
Best-Looking slider setting (Ultra)
FPS_MAX 0
Vsync OFF
PUBG Battlegrounds
Developed and published by PUBG Corporation, PlayerUknnown’s Battlegrounds now officially PUBG Battlegrounds, was an ARMA3 mod which has gained a massive global playerbase after being released as a stand-alone game. The game is now available for almost all platforms from PC to mobile but PC has been the definitive edition of the game. The game has evolved much since its release, receiving multiple polish to arrive at its current state.
API: DirectX 11
Settings: Ultra
Vsync: OFF
Valorant
Developed by League of Legends developer, Riot Games, Valorant is a first-person shooter featuring multiple heroes or agents which have unique skills to assist them within the games traditional team-based FPS combat. The game is gaining incredible success and has taken a large chunk of the now-incredibly massive CSGO playerbase as well, presenting a more refreshed take on classic TDM FPS but spices it up with skills, etc. Like CSGO and League, this game is light as a feather for the largest adoption possible. With 360hz monitors and input lag/system latency a major focus for these games, we’re now including it as reference for players.
API: DirectX 11
Max Detail settings
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 (2022)
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (2022) is the latest addition to the COD franchise and once again puts the main game back into the hands of Infinity Ward. With Black Ops Cold War and Vanguard both failing to continue the success of 2019’s COD Modern Warfare which has in-turn changed to Warzone, Activision is set on resetting the slate once again with COD Modern Warfare 2. Built alongside Warzone 2.0 on the IW 9.0 engine, CODMW2 ditches some partner technologies like ray tracing to keep it friendlier to all systems but still pushes more detailed models and environments for a modern look.
API: DirectX 12
Render Resolution: 100%
Ultra Preset
Forza Horizon 5
Developed by Playground Games and published by Xbox Game Studios, Forza Horizon 5 is the latest installment in the Forza series, picking up straight after the British escapades of Horizon 4, Horizon 5 takes us now to Mexico for another open-world racing spectacle, that is Horizon. Built on proprietary ForzaTech engine, the game harnesses its power to provide an excellent experience on both PC and Xbox.
API: DirectX 12
Settings: High
Raytracing: Off
Vsync: Off
A Plague’s Tale: Requiem
API: DirectX 12
Detail Settings: Ultra Preset
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
CD Projekt Red’s latest installment in the Witcher saga features one of the most graphically intense offering the company has to date. As Geralt of Rivia, slay monsters, beasts and men as you unravel the mysteries of your past. Vast worlds and lush sceneries make this game a visual feast and promises to make any system crawl at its highest settings. This game has found great resurgence in its playerbase thanks to the release of Netflix’ Witcher series. On December 2022, The Witcher 3 received a next-gen patch which bring ray tracing as well as many other changes to the game.
API: DirectX 12
Ultra Preset
Cyberpunk 2077
The most anticipated game of 2020 has just received its sort of “launch patch” this 2022 with version 1.5 changing many things in terms of performance as well as few things in the graphics department. Perhaps the most anticipated game of the last decade, Cyberpunk 2077’s launch has been a rollercoaster gamers on PC are largely in agreement that it was definitely worth the wait bar the bugs. Made by CD Projekt Red and based on the REDengine4, Cyberpunk 2077 is one of the most modern games introducing full utilization of raytracing amongst others. We do not enable raytracing in this test segment, that will be for the latest section of this review..
API: DirectX 12
Settings: Ultra Preset
Raytracing Off
DLSS Off
Vsync: OFF
Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered
Sony’s streak of PlayStation exclusives going to PC continues with Spider-Man. Originally releleased for PS4 in 2019, the game sees a PS5 upgrade and 2022 PC remastered release. The PC version of Spider-Man features a ton of modern PC graphical enhancements including all modern upscaling techniques along with ray tracing. The game natively supports ultrawide monitor resolution and is actively updated with with technologies from NVIDIA, AMD and Intel.
API: DirectX 12
Settings: Very High Preset
F1 2023
F1 23 doesn’t vary much from its predecessor but updates the game to feature more robust control and racing experience thanks to all the learnings and adjustments we’ve had from the 2022 changes. On the PC, F1 2023 will also receive some new graphical updates but primarily uses the same presentation engine as the game before it.
API: DirectX 12
Settings: Ultra Preset
Microsoft Flight Simulator
Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020) is the much awaited release since Flight Simulator X from 2006. Harnessing the power of Microsoft Azure, Bing Maps and AI functionalities, Microsoft Flight Simulator brings the definition of realism to a new level with maps that are alive and real, rendered directly from their real-world counterpart and populated ingame with details. The game is constantly update to maintain real world relevance particularly for large events or other recent occurences.
API: DirectX 12
Settings: Ultra Preset
Conclusion
Thoughts on the RTX 4070
With the RTX 3060 making its way as the most popular graphics card amongst Steam users recently, NVIDIA is looking to convince those who are 2 or 3 generations behind to consider upgrading their system. The entire RTX 40-series hinges on a lot of tech with 3rd-gen RT cores, 4th-gen Tensor cores on the Ada Lovelace cards allowing a new stack of applications way beyond just pure raster performance.
NVIDIA doubles down on this with a lengthy reviewers’ guide allowing the media to cover the extensive use-cases of the RTX 40-series. In the case of the RTX 4070, this makes some of these technologies much more accessible for those that need it with its more attractive price point.
Pure performance alone, at 1440p the card averages ~235FPS on a combination of competitive esports title and AAA games. Esports alone sees near-400FPS at 1440p, an effective doubling from the RTX 2070.
DLSS3 is a force multiplier here and we did observe weird results in Spiderman and F1 2022 in 4K but in Cyberpunk 2077, the results is as impressive like it was on the higher-tier 40-series cards. But chief amongst all its traits is its high efficiency with most games only sipping 160W-180W from the rated 200W max draw of the RTX 4070.
But at $599, the NVIDIA RTX 4070’s launch price is much higher than the RTX 3080 and a big jump from the RTX 2080, people who may be expecting the xx70 class RTX 40-card to cheaper. And I agree, while it does dump all this tech for its asking price, a $550 or even a $500 card could’ve been the market disruptor we needed to revitalize the market especially with more games pushing Frame Generation. This leaves those folks looking to save a buck to still look at used RTX 30-series cards and squeeze some more life out of them.
Months after the initial launch, pricing for RTX 40-series and RTX-30 seriies are close but the gap has since become more pronounced. The performance different against the RTX 3070 is more defined and the addiiton of DLSS3 really does shake things up for folks that appreciate it but for now, for regions that have no available stocks aging RTX 3080 on-shelf, the RTX 3070 presents a good alternative.
ZOTAC RTX 4070 AMP AIRO SPIDER-MAN Bundle
Availability of the ZOTAC RTX Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Bundle varies by region and not all territories may receive this specific SKU. It does put a bit more of a premium over the standard RTX 4070 AMP AIRO and most specially the RTX 4070 TWIN EDGE, both from ZOTAC. If you’re looking to get the ZOTAC RTX 4070, right now you’d be looking at around +$100 PH price versus the Twin Edge.
Of course the biggest price differentiator here isn’t the Spider-Man branding but the larger cooler and cherry-picked GPU on the AMP AIRO. We’ve yet to test the Twin Edge RTX 4070 but unlike the RTX 30-series Twin Edge, the RTX 4070 Twin Edge doesn’t feature the wider cooling that the previous generation sported but rather a more tradiitonal dual-fan cooler.
That is then stacked with a random Spider-Man ZTORM figure, a brand tote, a ton of stickers and finally, a custom box art. If none of this is doing it for you, then its definitely not for you and you have the option of finding a standard ZOTAC RTX 4070 AMP AIRO or getting the RTX 4070 Twin Edge. Regardless on where you sit on the fence, the overall status of the RTX 40-series reaches the tipping when you go down to the RTX 4070 class and unlike the RTX 4080 and RTX 4090 where the performance is definitely on a class of their own, the RTX 4070 needs to compete with previous-gen cards still hanging out on the market.
Looking at it from a purely stock card perspective, the ZOTAC RTX 4070 AMP AIRO delivers on what ZOTAC considers flagship: an effective cooling solution on top of a factory OC with whisper quiet operation, its hard to deny it is a step-up in performance compared to old-gen cards and the jump will be evident. But as mentioned, the argument to get a last-gen RTX 3070 may be a more compelling option but then again, you’d have had nearly over a year now to contemplate on getting an RTX 3070 and if you’re still sitting on that thought, then its obviously a vallue decision. The thought of a second hand RTX 3080 or RTX 3070 Ti for less than PHP25,000 may be sweet but finding one with an in-tact warranty is hard despite how easily techtubers make it out to be.
As a Spider-Man bundle though, the ZOTAC RTX 4070 AMP AIRO Spider-Man: Across th Spider-Verse is well put-together in terms of extras. While I personally am not a fan of the overall card customization, the magnetic backplate is indeed a good approach and the custom art isn’t bad. Considering NVIDIA’s own custom FE cards they’ve done with Cyberpunk 2077 and DIablo IV both had mangetic covers with custom art, ZOTAC’s isn’t alone in this approach for collabs.
To their credit, ZOTAC did customize their FireStorm overclocking software utility with a custom Spider-Man skin as well.
But considering that people are angry enough to sue stores for not delivering on their Spider-Man 2 PlayStation 5s, that goes to show how passionate this fandom can get for their merch. For now though, Miles and Gwen can swing onto your system on this nice acrylic backplate.
Ultimately, it is an option and you’re not compelled to buy the Spider-Man bundle. This is a fan edition and its fan service right from the box. Remember that Across the Spider-Verse is only part 1 and Beyond the Spider-Verse will wrap-up up the story and if ZOTAC manages to snag the rights for that IP again, then an RTX 50 collab could be on the horizon although NVIDIA may have other plans.
In closing, ZOTAC has done a great job with the RTX 4070 AMP AIRO and the Spider-Man collaboration is a sweet extra for those that are fan of the franchise.
ZOTAC x Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Merch Giveaway
THIS EVENT HAS CONCLUDED.
To celebrate this special collaboration between ZOTAC and Sony Pictures for the sequel to one of the greatest animated comic book film of all time, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse expands Miles Morales’ story to the multiverse. ZOTAC is giving the Back2Gaming community a chance to win merch from this special collaboration with this giveaway.
Picking up from 2018’s Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Across the Spider-Verse follows Miles Morales along with Gwen Stacy and the largest collection of Spider-People ever assembled in one screen from the pages of Marvel comics.
Commemorate this epic franchise with ZOTAC’s special ZOTAC x Spider-Man Across the Spider-Verse graphics card featuring RTX 4070 and RTX 4070 Ti models.
In this giveaway, we’re giving away a set of prices as listed below:
- Three(3) winners of one(1) ZOTAC x Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Gift Set + one(1) ZTORM Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse mini-figure set + one(1) ZOTAC x Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse T-shirt (random size)
- Gift set includes lanyard, and wrist watch
- Five(5) winners of one(1) ZTORM Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse mini-figure set + one(1) ZOTAC x Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse T-shirt (random size)
- Five(5) winners of three(3) pieces of ZTORM Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse mini-figure (individual boxes, content is random. High chance to receive duplicates)
How to Join:
a Rafflecopter giveaway
Joining is easy, just click or tap on the entry instructions in our app and you’re good to go:
- Visit ZOTAC Philippines on Facebook.
- Visit Back2Gaming on Facebook.
- If you haven’t done so yet, please give us a follow.
- Leave a comment on who is your favorite Spider-Man from Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. THERE IS SO MANY OF THEM!!!
- Share for more chances.
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Technical Stuff:
- IMPORTANT: This is not a giveaway for a graphics card!
- No purchase necessary.
- Entriess will be accepted from date of posting, August 9, 2023 up to 11:59PM August 18, 2023
- Open to all permanent residents of the Philippines, 13 years old and above.
- The ZOTAC x Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse ZTORM individual figures are random by nature so chances to receive duplicates is high. YOU WILL RECEIVE DUPLICATES!
- Prizes cannot be exchanged or sold for cash.
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“Who is your favorite Spider-Man from Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse.”
si Peter B. Parker. Responsible Daddy eh. 😀
Who is your favorite Spider-Man from Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse?
Spider Punk
Spoodaman
I think MIGUEL O’HARA/SPIDER-MAN 2099 is cool! he’s like a beast but sadly he’s become the villain of the spider-verse.
Favorite Spider-Man from Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse: Spider-Punk, Spider-Gwen, and Spider-Man 2099!
WEB-SLINGER (THE COWBOY SPIDER-MAN) po astig po e, lakas po ng obsevation haki nya, lahat natatamaan nya
Peni Parker Evangelion FTW
Favorite Spider-Man from Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
is Miguel O’Hara/Spider-Man 2099 a misunderstood hero… /the Dark Garfield, jk.
Spider-Man Unlimited looks cool!
Spider-Man Noir ! I think, they will save miles morales from the evil miles morales (prowler)
Who is your favorite Spider-Man from Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse?
Spider-Punk ez
Spider Gwenn / ghost spider
Favorite Character
Spider gwen/ Ghost spider
Favorite character
Miles morales and spider gwen
I love Spider-Punk! <3
Miles Morales is my favorite character!
The Best Of The Best Spider Best
Spider Punk
Spider Punk
Miles Morales
Miles Morales fave character!