Introduction

Gigabyte GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER Gaming OC is the company's most affordable factory overclocked custom design rendition of the new RTX 4070 Ti SUPER. The Gaming OC brand sticks to Gigabyte's main design and styling language, and is positioned a notch below its Eagle OC and the coveted AORUS Gaming lines. The Gaming OC is hence targeted at those who just want an RTX 4070 Ti SUPER card to install and forget about; and who don't mind some factory overclock on the side. The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER is NVIDIA's newest upper performance segment graphics card. While it's still being recommended for 1440p, like the RTX 4070, we've consistently found the 4070 series cards to be capable of 4K Ultra HD gaming, if you can dial down settings by just a tiny bit, or use DLSS. The RTX 4070 Ti SUPER should only enhance this proposition. An ideal use for the RTX 4070 Ti SUPER could be 1440p high refresh-rate, given that displays with 144 Hz or 165 Hz are getting affordable. The RTX 4070 Ti SUPER will definitely put out near triple-digit framerates at 1440p, with G-SYNC smoothing things out. There's always DLSS or DLSS 3 Frame Generation to dial up frame rates even more.



The GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER, like its siblings from the refresh, the RTX 4070 SUPER and the upcoming RTX 4080 SUPER, denote more performance at existing price-points, not new features. Since NVIDIA had maxed out the AD104 silicon to create the original RTX 4070 Ti, to create the new SUPER refresh, it had to tap into the bigger AD103 silicon that powers the RTX 4080 and mobile RTX 4090 series. Right off the bat, we see the memory size increase to 16 GB, taking advantage of the wider 256-bit memory interface, compared to the 192-bit interface of the AD104. NVIDIA also gave the RTX 4070 Ti SUPER a 10% increase in shaders, and a 20% increase in ROP count, while leaving the on-die L2 cache untouched at 48 MB.

NVIDIA carved the RTX 4070 Ti SUPER by disabling 14 out of the available 80 streaming multiprocessors (SM) on the AD103, leaving it with 66, which work out to 8,448 CUDA cores, 264 Tensor cores, 66 RT cores, and 264 TMUs. From the 112 ROPs available on the silicon, NVIDIA enabled 96, which is still a fair bit more than the 80 ROPs that the original RTX 4070 Ti has. The core runs at speeds of 2610 MHz, which Gigabyte overclocked to 2655 MHz, while leaving the memory untouched at 21 Gbps. At this memory speed, the RTX 4070 Ti SUPER enjoys 672 GB/s of memory bandwidth, which is 33% higher than what the other RTX 4070 series cards have.

As we mentioned, the tech driving the RTX 4070 Ti SUPER hasn't changed, this is very much still the Ada Lovelace graphics architecture, which takes advantage of the TSMC 5 nm EUV foundry process to dial up clock speeds and transistor counts. The new generation CUDA core takes advantage of these higher frequencies, combines them with its increased IPC, as well as support for shader execution reordering, a feature that should improve ray tracing performance. The 3rd generation RT core, in addition to generational gains in ray intersection performance, supports displaced micro-meshes, a feature that allows game developers to increase the complexity of ray traced objects. Lastly, the optical flow accelerator enables the GPU to draw entire alternate frames using AI, without involving the raster graphics machinery, which is how DLSS 3 Frame Generation works.

The Gigabyte RTX 4070 Ti SUPER Gaming OC isn't the company's most premium custom-design, but is closest to the NVIDIA MSRP. Gigabyte is pricing this card at $850, which is a $50 premium over the baseline. The card features the company's latest generation WindForce 3X cooling solution also found on the RTX 4070 Ti Gaming OC. Given that the total graphics power (TGP) is unchanged between the two GPUs at 285 W, this must have been an easy design choice for Gigabyte. One aspect of the Gigabyte brand that stands out is its extended warranty. With a simple online registration, your product warranty is extended to four years, compared to the regular two years.

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

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