NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Founders Edition

[W1zzard]

NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 4070 launches today. In this review we're taking a look at the Founders Edition, which sells at the baseline MSRP of $600. NVIDIA's new FE is a beauty, and its dual-slot design is compact enough to fit into all cases. In terms of performance, the card can match RTX 3080, with much better energy efficiency.

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[W1zzard]

Video summary:

 

[wolf]

Great performance and efficiency, time will tell about the memory configuration, and the price is still just too damn steep imo. Best value so far, but far from amazing. Looks like all the partner cards TPU reviewed are 8-pin too, nice. Can't wait to see what one does when undervolted.

 

[MysteryE]

I don't feel so bad paying 690 for my 6950XT now.

 

[GerKNG]

So a brand new 2023 12GB Card that costs probably 700-750€ in reality loses to a 16GB 6800XT which costs a lot less used and even ~150-200€ less brand new.

That's at best stagnation.

 

[dgianstefani]

So a brand new 2023 12GB Card that costs probably 700-750€ in reality loses to a 16GB 6800XT which costs a lot less used and even ~150-200€ less brand new.

That's at best stagnation.

"Loses"



New cards will always cost more than used cards bro.

 

[trisstann]

Dead On Arrival, imagine releasing product that has lesss VRAM, cost 100$ more and offer same peformance as 6800 XT



yes i know nvidia will sell a lot of those , i just cant, with less vram it prolly wont ever manage Ray Tracing advantage for long

 

[thegnome]

So a brand new 2023 12GB Card that costs probably 700-750€ in reality loses to a 16GB 6800XT which costs a lot less used and even ~150-200€ less brand new.

That's at best stagnation.

For most people the 6800 XT is the obvious buy for now, so long as it keeps getting produced and the 4070 price stays too high. I wouldn't stay it's stagnation, it's just that price grows faster than performance does currently. I doubt it'll continue soon after this whole inflation thing is back to normal levels again. The efficiency is quite amazing and so is the RT performance (which will only get more important each year).

 

[dir_d]

Why do they nerf the card so hard in raster then over charge for proprietary technology to get the card where it should be if they just included more raster hardware. I feel like we are in the twilight zone and everyone cheers because its Nvidia.

 

[GerKNG]

"Loses"



New cards will always cost more than used cards bro.

Exactly. Loses.

"New Cards will always cost more"... yeah but they should be A LOT faster then. even buying the 6800XT Brand New is ~200€ cheaper.

 

[DBGT]

Editor Choice for a card that do the same that 3080/6800XT do which are more than 2 years old. With 6800XT is cheaper!

 

[Asni]

Did anyone notice that the same GDDR6X run way hotter (10 to 15 degrees, internal temperature will be near max rating) than the 4070ti?

 

[dgianstefani]

Exactly. Loses.

"New Cards will always cost more"... yeah but they should be A LOT faster then. even buying the 6800XT Brand New is ~200€ cheaper.
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100.628437%... 0.628% faster in classic raster, while being 22% slower in ray tracing, the standard that is being used in all modern game engines moving forward, while consuming 100 W more when gaming. Seems like a wise choice to go for the "winning" RX 6800 XT!

That's also not taking into account DLSS and frame generation.

 

[gffermari]

Basically you don't buy a card anymore but access to game.

This card seems to be expensive because if performs as a 3080/6800XT, 2 years later while being slightly cheaper.
nVidia sells you tech. Not hardware. They sell access to DLSS 3 etc. etc. so you are allowed to play specific AAA titles which take advantage of that.

Even in that case, I don't see AMD cards as alternative.
All the 6000 cards are ridiculously slow where matters, RT, while the good 7000 cards are ridiculously expensive compared to the nVidia package.

 

[Denver]

More efficiency + fake frames, but in terms of performance nothing more than what's already available in this price range... GG

I'm still surprised that someone would have the courage to defend this. What happens when games surpass the limited VRAM? Are you willing to bet on it?

 

[Max(IT)]

Video summary:

Is this something new ?
Great… but don’t plan to replace your detailed articles with YouTube videos, please

 

[Ruru]

What a joke. This card was released 11 days too late as April Fool's day would've been perfect launch date for this.

 

[dirtyferret]

good performance, bad price position

 

[W1zzard]

Is this something new ?
Great… but don’t plan to replace your detailed articles with YouTube videos, please

No plans for that. The goal is actually to make short ~5 minute summary videos, I can't stand those 20++ minute videos that dance around the topic just to get preferred by the YT algo, because they are longer than 20 minutes

 

[Max(IT)]

Dead On Arrival, imagine releasing product that has lesss VRAM, cost 100$ more and offer same peformance as 6800 XT



yes i know nvidia will sell a lot of those , i just cant, with less vram it prolly wont ever manage Ray Tracing advantage for long

Except it will pass the 6800XT market share in a matter of WEEKS, literally…

Why AMD users are always like that ?
Who would choose a 6800XT over a 4070 ?

 

[dirtyferret]

No plans for that. The goal is actually to make short ~5 minute summary videos, I can't stand those 20++ minute videos that dance around the topic just to get preferred by the YT algo, because they are longer than 20 minutes

**cough** **cough** tech jesus...who said that?

 

[Max(IT)]

good performance, bad price position

unfortunately bad price position is a constant in PC market in the last 3 years ….

 

[nguyen]

4070+7800X3D would be ideal for SFF builds.

 

[Max(IT)]

No plans for that. The goal is actually to make short ~5 minute summary videos, I can't stand those 20++ minute videos that dance around the topic just to get preferred by the YT algo, because they are longer than 20 minutes

Good. This could be seen as a good recap. Added value instead of clickbait. I like it.

4070+7800X3D would be ideal for SFF builds.

Ad would be good on our electricity bill too.

 

[bug]

This would have been much sweeter @$500. But because of 4070Ti@$800, we already knew that wasn't happening
On the bright side, at least the prices have stopped sky-rocketing.