NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER performs well, conquering the 2K high-refresh screen and showing excellent AI performance

At this year’s CES2024, NVIDIA released many AI-related products, including the RTX 40 SUPER series graphics cards. The GEFORCE RTX 4070 SUPER we tested this time, according to NVIDA’s positioning, is currently a consumer-grade graphics card that is very suitable for 2K high-brush games and has certain AI computing capabilities. So, how does this card perform? Next, let’s take a look at this site.

In order to maximize the performance potential of the graphics card, we continued to fill up the configuration for this test to ensure that other hardware can fully help the graphics card release its due performance. The specific configuration is as follows:

Appearance design

The public version of the product is a test of the manufacturer’s industrial design capabilities, because it not only creates a performance for other cooperative manufacturers The template must also show the unique temperament and quality of the product. Other companies can make simple or cool designs to please different consumer groups, but the public version design must be grand and high-end.

When we unboxed this card, although its appearance was basically the same as the RTX 4070, the color scheme gave us a little shock. There are many manufacturers making black cards for a long time, but making them high-end is not easy. The design of the public version card is believed to be in line with the aesthetic point of most users. The pure black card surface is paired with a metal decorative outline with a deep space gray polished texture, which is very deep and mysterious.

The TGP power consumption of GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER is 220W. Since the power consumption increase is very small, the power supply interface is still a customized 16-pin ATX 3.0 specification, which is included in the package. One 12-pin to two 8-pin 12VHPWR adapter cable.

In order to match the changes in color and style, the GEFORCE RTX 4070 SUPER product model logo on the left side of the front of the graphics card is no longer glossy white, but instead has an etched texture. There are concaves and convexes, making it more refined. The 2-slot design and 24cm card body remain the same as the previous generation, and the chassis compatibility is still excellent.

#The X-shaped design and the aluminum alloy textured edges all highlight the exquisiteness of the public version. It sticks to fingerprints when held in the hand, which seems to tell users that they must wear gloves when opening the box, which adds a sense of ritual.

The thick cooling fins and the conspicuous fan on the right are all blackened. The all-metal material feels heavy in the hand and is conducive to more efficient heat dissipation. .

#The graphics card fans adopt a unique arrangement of one left, one right, one up and one down, which can form a vertical air duct to better take away the heat from the fins.

Viewed from the side, this generation of metal cladding and the overall graphics card maintain the same color scheme. The GeForce RTX logo is also more completely black, and the integration is greatly improved.

In addition to the metal baffle of the output interface, the only two screws exposed on the card body are placed on the right side, and they are basically invisible when installed in the chassis.

As for the power supply interface, it is best to use a power supply that supports the ATX3.0 specification. A flat custom cable can greatly enhance the aesthetics of the installation.

The "golden finger" on the other side is still eye-catching. Although it is still a PCIe4.0 interface, mainstream motherboards can fully utilize its full performance.

The I/O interface bezel is dark gray, and the interface is equipped with 3*DP1.4a interface and 1*HDMI2.1 interface, supporting up to 8K60Hz output.

Core Analysis

GEFORCE RTX 4070 SUPER is still based on the AD104 core this time, and the specific model is AD104-350. It contains 7168 CUDA cores internally, which is a 22% increase compared to the RTX 4070’s 5888 cores. There are also 224 Tensor cores, 56 third-generation RT cores, and 80 ROP units. The overall specifications are one step closer to the RTX 4070Ti. However, there is still only one eighth-generation NVIDIA encoder (NVENC), which is a pity.

In terms of video memory, GEFORCE RTX 4070 SUPER continues to use the same 12GB GDDR6X large-capacity video memory as the RTX 4070, 192-bit video memory width, and the base frequency is 1920MHz from the RTX 4070 It has been increased to 1980MHz, and the acceleration frequency remains unchanged at 2475MHz. Judging from the graphics card specifications and official positioning, GEFORCE RTX 4070 SUPER is a mid-to-high-end graphics card positioned for 2K high frame rate games.

Of course, GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER still uses the latest NVIDIA Ada architecture and is built based on TSMC 4N NVIDIA custom process, thus achieving a performance-power consumption ratio of up to 2 times. . Streaming multiprocessors deliver 2x more throughput than previous generations. The DLSS 3 of the third-generation RT Cores can increase light tracing performance by 2 times. The fourth-generation Tensor Cores add a new FP8 engine with Tensor processing performance of up to 1.32 petaflops, and DLSS can increase performance by up to 4 times.

Theoretical Performance

The previously launched RTX 4070 gave players a slight shock with its 200W power consumption. So what will be the performance of the GEFORCE RTX 4070 SUPER this time? Through the single baking test, we can see that after 20 minutes of baking, the GPU power consumption remains at about 220W, the core temperature is stable at about 72℃, and the video memory temperature is even lower, only 68℃. Theoretically, a 600W power supply is enough to power a CPU with a power consumption of 100 watts such as i5 or R5. The power supply line is still 8Pin to 1:2. Players can upgrade the graphics card in one step without spending extra costs to replace other hardware.

After baking the machine, we conducted the 3D Mark Time Spy stress test on the GEFORCE RTX 4070 SUPER to see whether the graphics card performance is released smoothly under continuous high load. And durability, the GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER finally got a score of 99.5%, and the sustained performance output is very good.

The next step is the GPU theoretical performance test. In the 3DMark TimeSpy DX12 test, the graphics card score of GEFORCE RTX 4070 SUPER is 20563 points, compared with the public version score of RTX 3070 The score of 13630 has increased by about 50.8%, even tying the previous generation RTX 3090, but the power consumption is 130W less.

In the 3DMark TimeSpy Extreme DX12 test, the graphics card score of GEFORCE RTX 4070 SUPER was 9970 points, which was an increase of 3300 points compared to the RTX 3070, an increase of about 49.4%. It is basically tied with the RTX 3090's score of 10328, while the RTX 4070's score is slightly lower than the RTX 3080's, which is a considerable improvement.

In the 3DMark Fire Strike DX11 test, the GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER's graphics card score was 45833 points, which was an increase of about 33.3% compared to the RTX 3070's 34363 points, and compared to the previous generation The RTX 3090’s score of 45,900 is only about 0.1% different.

In the 3DMark Fire Strike Extreme DX11 test, the graphics card score of the GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER reached 22899 points, an increase of about 37.2% compared to the 16680 points of the RTX 3070, and only about a difference compared to the 23557 points of the previous generation RTX 3090. 2%.

In the 3DMark Portal Royal light chasing test, the GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER scored 12595 points, an increase of 51.3% compared to the RTX 3070's 8321 points, which is enough to play 2K A light-tracing game at the same resolution.

Game Test

Now that we are talking about games, we have to mention that the NVIDIA platform currently has more than 500 games and applications that support RTX technology, and As DLSS 3 technology becomes more mature and popular, the number of games that support DLSS 3 is also increasing.

For example, 14 new games supporting DLSS 3 technology have been added this year, including "Dragon's Dogma 2", "Horizon West", "Yakuza 8", "Halfjou" Well-known games such as "Destiny 2 RTX". In addition, the released "Alan Killer 2", "Cyberpunk 2077: Shadows of the Past", "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3", etc. also support DLSS 3 or DLSS 3.5 technology at the first time. At the same time, the current mainstream popular online competitive games all support NVIDIA Reflex technology. Whether it is for low-end players or e-sports players, these two technologies can greatly improve the gaming experience.

In the next game test session, we will test 6 games for you, including 2 online competitive games, 2 traditional raster games and 2 games that support DLSS 3 /3.5 light chasing game, and will be played at 1080P and 2K resolutions to ensure that everyone can intuitively refer to our data.

First of all, there are two online competitive games. In "CS2", we use the default high image quality option and conduct a game at 1080P and 2K resolutions respectively. And the average number of frames was recorded through Frame View. The final average number of frames of GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER was 301 frames and 334 frames respectively.

At the same time, we also turned on the NVIDIA Reflex option in the game settings to enable enhancement. The actual measured average delay was 6.3ms at 1080 resolution and 2K resolution. The delay is only 9.1ms. This kind of delay performance should not affect the performance of most players.

For the second online competitive game, we chose the popular "Rainbow Six: Siege", GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER At 1080P resolution, the average number of frames at the highest quality reaches 466 frames, and at 2K resolution, the highest quality is 370 frames. Even if you are using a 360Hz high-brush e-sports monitor, it is still enough.

"Rainbow Six: Siege" also supports NVIDIA Reflex technology. When the game is running, select the option with Vukan to find the Reflex on enhanced option in the game. , after it is turned on and captured through Frame, the final average delay at 1080P resolution is only 5.7ms, and at 2K resolution it is 10.1ms. The delay performance is also very good.

Then there are 2 traditional raster games. In the classic action-adventure game "Shadow of the Tomb Raider", the highest image quality is selected, and the average frames of 1080P resolution are not turned on without ray tracing and DLSS 2 options. The number can reach 241 frames, the RTX 4070 is 223 frames, an increase of 8%; then we turn on the ultra-high light chasing level, select the quality level of DLSS 2, and can also reach an average of 193 frames, the RTX 4070 is 176 frames, an increase of 9%.

Tested twice again at 2K resolution, with an average of 214 frames without ray tracing and DLSS, and 201 frames with RTX 4070, an improvement About 6%; when turning on the light-tracing DLSS quality setting, the average is 175 frames, and the RTX 4070 is 153 frames, an increase of about 14%.

We also tested Ubisoft's latest work "Assassin's Creed: Visions" for everyone. As we all know, the previously released mythology trilogy has very high requirements for PC performance. , and in the latest game, 1080P resolution was selected as the highest quality, and the game's own performance benchmark was run. The average frame rate reached 153 frames, and the average frame rate of the RTX 4070 was 123 frames, an increase of about 24%.

Coming to 2K resolution, GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER still performs well. The average number of frames is just at the high refresh sweet spot of 120 frames. The average of RTX 4070 The number of frames is 97, an increase of about 23.7%. It seems that "Assassin's Creed: Visions" is more friendly to PC performance requirements, and GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER perfectly realizes the stand-alone e-sports experience.

Finally, there are two light chasing games that support DLSS 3/3.5. One of them is the very well optimized "Forza Horizon 5". Choose it in the game After setting the extremely high image quality preset and turning on the DLSS 3 option, the NVIDIA Reflex option will also be turned on by default. As usual, we select Reflex ON BOOST and run the performance benchmark test that comes with the game.

Under the extremely high quality of 1080P resolution, DLSS 2 selects the quality level and turns on DLSS 3 frame generation at the same time. The average number of frames of GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER exceeds 200 frames. It came to 207 frames, while the average latency was 16.6ms. The RTX 4070 averaged 200 FPS, an improvement of about 3.5%.

Even when pulled to 2K resolution, the average number of frames is 171 frames, and the average latency of the game increases to 17.4ms. The average frame rate of the RTX 4070 is 160 frames, an improvement of about 6%. For a racing game with competitive attributes, the performance of GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER is stress-free.

In "Cyberpunk: 2077", which was the first to follow up on DLSS 3.5 technology, we selected the ultra-fast ray tracing image quality in one step and turned on the DLSS quality file DLSS 3.5. At this time, running the game's own benchmark performance test at 1080P resolution, the final average frame rate can reach 121 frames, and the average frame number of RTX 4070 is 104 frames, an increase of about 16.3%.

However, at 2K resolution, keeping other settings unchanged, the average frame number of GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER is 81 frames, and the average frame number of RTX 4070 is 78 frames. The increase is about 3%, which is very small.

Turn off light reconstruction

Turn on light reconstruction

So does DLSS 3.5 have any impact on game image quality, especially ray tracing performance? Look at these two pictures. The reflection of the slippery road after rain in the same scene in the game gives us the answer. After turning on light reconstruction, the clarity of the reflection is significantly improved, and the artifacts that were common in the previous pictures are also much reduced. It is obvious that DLSS 3.5 can be said to be the lubricant for high-level ray tracing. While retaining the highest picture effects, it can also achieve the best frame rate performance.

creative production

Video memory scale GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER continues to maintain a large 12GB video memory, the video memory type is still GDDR6X, and the video memory width is still 192 bits. This is the creativity of GEFORCE RTX 4070 SUPER Production capacity has laid a certain foundation. Users can also install NVIDIA Studio drivers to accelerate more than 110 of the most popular creative applications, such as Optix, DLSS and Maxine, as well as the full suite of NVIDIA Studio creative applications, including NVIDIA Omniverse, Broadcast, Canvas and RTX Remix. At the same time, the blessing of large video memory also gives it a certain degree of generative artificial intelligence computing power, and it is no problem to use it for simple AI painting training.

In modeling and rendering software, GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER's 7168 CUDA cores can provide hardware acceleration, improving work efficiency. Almost all modeling software is optimized for NVIDIA GPUs, so it can take into account efficiency, stability, and compatibility. For example, in the commonly used rendering tool V-Ray, you can use the RTX accelerated ray tracing function to achieve high-performance final frame rendering. In addition, a GPU equipped with AI noise reduction can further accelerate interactive rendering and provide a smoother work experience.

Having said all that, let’s take a look at the actual test performance of GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER. In terms of modeling software, we tested the performance of V-Ray Benchmark. The GPU CUDA test project score is 2224 points.

In the GPU RTX test project, the final score of GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER was 3070 points.

In the Benchmark test of another modeling software blender, the three-scene score of GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER is shown in the figure, while the three-scene score of RTX 4070 is 3139, 1517, 1538, all have also improved.

Then let’s take a look at its performance in video rendering and encoding and decoding. GEFORCE RTX 4070 SUPER is equipped with an NVENC encoder and supports the new generation of AV1 video encoding technology. It can provide faster video encoding and higher quality streaming performance under the same video size. Domestic Cutting Professional Edition has implemented acceleration support for the NVIDIA AV1 video encoder. We also tested this. We imported a 2 minute and 30 second 4K video material into the Cutting Professional Edition, and then used H .264 encoding and AV1 encoding for export.

You can see that the size of the video exported by AV1 encoding is 334MB, and the size of the video exported by H.264 encoding is 790MB. The space occupied by the former is not even half of that of the latter. Yes, the coding efficiency is still very high.

And in terms of picture quality, by intercepting the picture details of the two videos and observing them, there is basically no difference between the two encoding methods. They are small and high-definition, AV1 It is bound to become the new favorite among encoding formats.

There is also RTX video super-resolution technology, which can upgrade online 1080P video to 4K resolution at most through the AI ​​calculation of the GPU, achieving improved clarity through algorithms. Effect. We only need to find the video in the NVIDIA control panel - adjust the video image settings, and then we can customize the adjustment. There are 4 super levels.

↑ From left to right, they are 480P, VSR1, VSR2, VSR3, VSR4

We publish it through the playback account of station B on this site A video was taken, and the resolution was adjusted to 480P, and then the super-resolution levels were successively increased for a screenshot test. It can be seen that the characters become clearer at levels 1-4.

As usual, we tested the actual video editing and rendering performance through the Puget for Adobe series plug-ins. Currently, the plug-in has launched an update based on the latest versions of Photoshop and Premiere Pro. However, due to some reasons, we were unable to complete the test, so we still used the old version of the plug-in. The running scores are for your reference only. In the Puget for Premiere Pro test, the GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER scored 1509 points.

In the Puget for After Effects test, the GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER scored 1669 points.

Finally, we briefly tested the performance of this card in AIGC through Stable Diffusion, by selecting the model v2-1_768-ema-pruned.ckpt, draw 21 images of AI Lao Huang in the form of Vincentian diagrams, the image resolution is 768*768, and it finally takes 1 minute and 4.9 seconds to complete. As a reference, RTX 3070 takes a full 3 minutes to complete the drawing, and the speed is increased by about 65 %.

With the popularity and explosive growth of second-generation content in the AIGC field, even ordinary consumers can use creative software like Stable Diffusion and the powerful power of RTX 40 series graphics cards Use AI computing power to create your own AI drawing works. There is no doubt that in this regard, NVIDIA is currently leading the industry in terms of technical capabilities and adaptation of related applications. In terms of price, GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER is obviously the most cost-effective compared to professional cards and takes into account gaming. Experience and other professional productivity creations are very suitable for ordinary consumers to experience AI.

Summary

In this era of rapid development of AI-driven high-tech industries, this public version of GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER graphics card naturally cannot be regarded as a simple upgrade product. In terms of its own positioning, Its performance has surpassed that of the previous generation RTX 3090, but its power consumption is only half of the former. It is currently the most suitable choice for experiencing 2K high-brush games. Therefore, it is very suitable for users who are still using RTX 20/30 series graphics cards to upgrade, which can greatly improve the performance and experience of games and productivity.

On the other hand, GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER is also the most cost-effective AIGC creative production card at the moment. It has 568 TOPS of AI computing power, which is even more than the RTX 4070 With 22% of the number of CUDA cores, we have seen from it various possibilities, breakthroughs and future of PC graphics performance with the support of AI technology. If you are a user who has certain needs for AI creation or computing, but the budget is not too high, GEFORCE RTX 4070 SUPER should also be your favorite.

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