Introduction

ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER is a premium custom-design rendition of the new RTX 4070 Ti SUPER that ASUS confirmed it's selling at the NVIDIA MSRP of $800. This card combines ASUS's premium custom PCB engineering with the company's TUF Gaming cooler that it used with cards such as the TUF Gaming RTX 4080—it's very capable and well tuned. The TUF Gaming RTX 4070 Ti SUPER sticks to NVIDIA reference clock speeds, which is how it's able to position this as an MSRP card. With cards at RTX 4070 Ti tier or above that having their TGP set to 285 W, such as this one, NVIDIA lacks a DUAL series custom-design, which makes the TUF Gaming their baseline. There's also the TUF Gaming OC, which could be offered at a slight premium. A segment above this would be the ROG Strix series.



The new NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER is part of a constellation of three brisk new GPU launches NVIDIA is pulling off this January, which seek to refresh the company's higher-end product stack. The RTX 4070 Ti gets replaced with the new RTX 4070 Ti SUPER at its $800 MSRP, and is retired from the lineup. NVIDIA continues to recommend this for the 1440p resolution, with an ideal pairing being some of those 144 Hz or 165 Hz 1440p displays that are becoming affordable; although we've consistently found GPUs in the RTX 4070 series to be capable of 4K Ultra HD resolutions—even the RTX 4070 is, which means the RTX 4070 Ti Super should only do this better. As part of the refresh, NVIDIA gives each of the three SKUs more performance at existing or lower price points. For the RTX 4070 Ti SUPER, it's all about the memory.

Having maxed out the AD104 silicon that drives the RTX 4070, RTX 4070 SUPER, and RTX 4070 Ti with the latter; the only way NVIDIA could create the RTX 4070 Ti SUPER is by tapping into the larger AD103 silicon which drives the RTX 4080 and the upcoming RTX 4080 SUPER. The biggest benefit of the switch is the memory, and you now get 16 GB of it with the RTX 4070 Ti SUPER, across a 256-bit memory interface—this is a 33% gain in both memory size and bandwidth. Besides this, NVIDIA has increased the shaders by 10%, and ROP count by 20%—both fairly significant improvements in terms of specs.

NVIDIA carved the RTX 4070 Ti SUPER out of the AD103 silicon by enabling 66 out of 80 available SM. That's 6 more SM than the 60 physically present on the AD104. It hence has 8,448 CUDA cores, 264 Tensor cores, 66 RT cores, and 264 TMUs. Out of the 112 ROPs present on the AD103, NVIDIA enabled 96, which is 16 more than the 80 ROPs on the RTX 4070 Ti. From the 64 MB of on-die L2 cache, though, NVIDIA only enabled 48 MB, which is the same as the 48 MB of the RTX 4070 Ti. The GPU runs at up to 2610 MHz boost, and the memory at 21 Gbps. With the 256-bit memory bus, this yields 672 GB/s of memory bandwidth. The total graphics power (TGP) or the de facto power limit for the RTX 4070 Ti Super is set at 285 W, or the same as the RTX 4070 Ti. This is lower than the 320 W of the RTX 4080, but not by much.

The ASUS TUF Gaming RTX 4070 Ti SUPER features a large 4-slot cooling solution that uses a trio of Axial Tech fans; ventilating a large heatsink array. There's minimal RGB lighting—just a small LED strip near the tail end of the card; but you get some useful features such as dual-BIOS. Both the two BIOS ROMs run the card at the same 2610 MHz reference speeds, but the Quiet BIOS (Q-BIOS) lets you lower the fan speeds for slightly higher temperatures (which shouldn't affect performance at these reference speeds). Another unique feature with this card is that unlike most other RTX 4070 Ti SUPER cards, it gives you a total of 5 display outputs—two HDMI and three DisplayPorts; with the second HDMI coming in handy if you use a VR headset while you have an HDMI display connected.

Short 10-Minute Video Comparing 10x RTX 4070 Ti Super

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