PNY GeForce RTX 4070

[W1zzard]

The PNY GeForce RTX 4070 is a compact dual-slot, dual-fan custom design that still achieves good cooling performance, similar to the NVIDIA Founders Edition. The card retails at the $600 baseline MSRP that NVIDIA has set for the RTX 4070, with performance matching RTX 3080 and RX 6800 XT.

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[Space Lynx]

I just realized all these reviews of 4070's have built in interactive sliders on the DLSS3 Frame Generation dedicated page... holy crap. That must seriously take some time to do...

 

[Chrispy_]

This looks like a minimum-effort, minimum-viable-product.

It's actually suprisingly fine in all aspects - expecially thermals and noise. I'm just not sure I want to pay $600 for such a low-effort product when the FE is such a nice piece of hardware to own and the Ventus3X is obviously a product that's had a lot more thought and effort put into it for exactly the same price.

I just realized all these reviews of 4070's have built in interactive sliders on the DLSS3 Frame Generation dedicated page... holy crap. That must seriously take some time to do...

Yes. @W1zzard - The only thing that does seem to need fixing is that the two videos for CP2077 seem to be mixed up. I *think* the DLSS3 FG video is labelled as the one without and vice-versa. Otherwise I really like what you're doing there. Gives people one of, if not the best way to see for themselves what DLSS3 looks like before buying a 40-series card to experience it for themselves. Youtube compression ruins most comparisons but being able to frame-by-frame compare and playback at 25% speed makes a huge difference!

 

[Raytech]

This looks like a minimum-effort, minimum-viable-product.

It's actually suprisingly fine in all aspects - expecially thermals and noise. I'm just not sure I want to pay $600 for such a low-effort product when the FE is such a nice piece of hardware to own and the Ventus3X is obviously a product that's had a lot more thought and effort put into it for exactly the same price.


Yes. @W1zzard - The only thing that does seem to need fixing is that the two videos for CP2077 seem to be mixed up. I *think* the DLSS3 FG video is labelled as the one without and vice-versa. Otherwise I really like what you're doing there. Gives people one of, if not the best way to see for themselves what DLSS3 looks like before buying a 40-series card to experience it for themselves. Youtube compression ruins most comparisons but being able to frame-by-frame compare and playback at 25% speed makes a huge difference!

The ventus has a lot more though? Its missing crucial thermal pads and the ventus vrm are reaching 100c...I think the PNY is the better choice here

 

[Chrispy_]

The ventus has a lot more though? Its missing crucial thermal pads and the ventus vrm are reaching 100c...I think the PNY is the better choice here

The copy+paste reference design PCB (with the circular clear-zone for the reference board) just slapped onto a cheaper rectangular PCB without any alteration is what makes me think minimum-effort here from PNY. Yes, some VRMs on the MSI get hot but that's not unusual for GPUs and not a concern.

The Ventus clearly had some engineers redesign the PCB layout to better work on the size of board they're using. It also has an objectively better cooler with lower temperatures AND lower noise at the same time.

If both are available at the same price then it's a no-brainer. That doesn't make the PNY a bad card, but most people care about noise levels and temperatures so the Ventus would be an obvious first choice.