Introduction

NVIDIA today announced the GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER, alongside the RTX 4070 TI SUPER, and the RTX 4080 SUPER. You can read all about the three in our launch day coverage. Today, we are allowed to show you what the RTX 4070 SUPER looks like. To know how it performs, you'll have to wait just a little longer, but we'll have our reviews up before January 17, when the card goes on sale at a starting price of $599. The GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER is designed for maxed out gaming at 1440p, including with ray tracing. It's capable of 4K gameplay, if you know your way around game settings, or can use GeForce Experience to find them for you. You can also take advantage of the now mature DLSS 2 that's supported on nearly every new AAA game, these days, or even the transformative DLSS 3 Frame Generation.



NVIDIA positions the RTX 4070 SUPER between the current RTX 4070, which will continue on in the product-stack, at a new starting price of $549, and the RTX 4070 Ti SUPER, which replaces the RTX 4070 Ti at $799. It's based on the same 5 nm AD104 silicon as the other two SKUs in the 4070 series. While the RTX 4070 enables 46 out of 60 streaming multiprocessors (SM) present on the silicon; and the RTX 4070 Ti maxes it out, the new RTX 4070 SUPER has a 20% increase in SM count over the RTX 4070, enabling 56 out of 60 SM. This results in 7.168 CUDA cores, 224 Tensor cores, 56 RT cores, 224 TMUs, and 80 ROPs. The memory configuration is unchanged, with 12 GB of 21 Gbps GDDR6X memory across a 192-bit memory bus, giving it 504 GB/s on tap. The TGP sees a 10% increase, from 200 W up to 220 W, which means a 16-pin 12VHPWR power connector comes standard on all RTX 4070 SUPER cards, including the ones that stick to NVIDIA reference clock speeds.



Enough specs talk. Let's get cracking with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER!

First up, we have the Founders Edition, the de facto reference design for the card. If you recall, NVIDIA created the SUPER brand extension for its mid-life product stack refresh with the RTX 20-series Turing. It featured a green polygon with the stylized SUPER logo. This time around, the theme is black—as with much of the sans serif Arialization of logos these days, the SUPER logo is all black, set against silver.

RTX 4070 SUPER FE Unboxing

As we described earlier, the RTX 4070 SUPER Founders Edition box opens along a diagonal axis. The card is the first thing you see when you open it, and it's glorious! Held face-down into a frame and Styrofoam insert that cushions it, the card's backplate greets you first. This insert is surrounded by a frame that has a radiating artwork.

The Founders Edition box is a big black cuboid. You have to strain your eyes to see the grayed out logos, the only legible things are the regulatory stickers on the underside. The box doesn't open sideways or even along a central axis like a clamshell, but rather along a diagonal axis. This allows NVIDIA to use the larger 45-degree diagonal to present the card, surrounded by a stylized frame. This entire frame can be pulled out, to reveal a smaller accessories box.

There was a time when graphics card accessory boxes included manuals, driver DVDs, power cables, display adapters, etc. All that is gone, and the only accessory you get is an NVIDIA designed adapter that converts two 8-pin PCIe power connectors to a 12VHPWR connector that's capable of 300 W continuous power delivery. The box also contains a pictographic quick-setup sheet, and some safety info.

RTX 4070 SUPER FE: The Card

A common theme between the RTX 4070 SUPER FE and RTX 4080 SUPER FE that distinguishes them from the older RTX 4070 and RTX 4080 cards is the all-black theme. The magnesium alloy frame now comes in a slick matte black finish, with diamond-cut edges that aren't silver, but rather glossy black. The heatsink continues to be matte black, as on the original RTX 40-series FE cards, along with the fans.

To make it absolutely clear that this is a SUPER card, the backplate element that's right behind the PCB does away with the white RTX 4070 lettering, and instead has "RTX 4070" in recessed lettering, next to the SUPER brand extension in raised lettering.


The rear I/O expansion bracket is carried over with its dark gunmetal finish. Display connectors include three DisplayPort 1.4, and one HDMI. And that about wraps up the RTX 4070 SUPER, but stay tuned for some pictures of custom design cards in the next page!