ASUS TUF Gaming & Gigabyte Gaming OC RTX 4070 SUPER Review [Benchmarks | Power | Thermals]

yesterday saw the launch of the RTX 470 super a GPU that improves upon the RTX 470 with a higher core count and set of specs in every way possible more Cuda cores and more RT cores more Tac cores and with it a big focus on AI upscaling or dlss now our general consensus was that it's good but it does have a fight on its hands from AMD in the way of the 7800 XT though Nvidia do win in terms of those extra glorious frames when it comes to dlss namely with frame generation so with a launch price of $599 it already had a battle in the bang for buck World whereas today sees a launch of the non MSRP cards that should provide better cooling higher boost clocks and all round better quality and with two cards on hand we're going to see if paying even more is worth it overall but before we get into that here's a quick word from this video sponsor I'm never going to be an Esports gamer I never get any kills I wouldn't be so sure of that is that Andy Rafel from eics decom yes my son it is me Andy 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airflow and lower noise there's 20K military gray capacitors which are rated for up to 105° C and a boost clock of 2,475 MHz in default mode and 255 MHz in OC mode so slightly higher than the MSRP cards most of all though I'm expecting the more robust power delivery hardware and the larger cooler to be I guess what makes this card performer its best now first of all I'm going to say this is a stunning looking piece of gaming Hardware all bit it does look kind of like all of the other previous tough gaming cards but I guess if it isn't broken don't fix it now this is I guess a pretty significantly sized cooler too so taming the RTX 4070 super core should be a breeze as this cooler looks like it's lifted from a higher model in the RTX range the cooler features three large and Powerful axial fans which come with lots of wide and slightly overlapping fins as well as a trim around the edges that joins the fins together this design helps prevent air from being push Sideways from the fan and instead kind of Point more directly down through the GPU heat sink unlike some of the more affordable RTX 470 Super Cards this one features an all metal shroud as well which I've got to admit looks gorgeous with its gun metal finish it is also quite thick too coming in at three slots and it's certainly longer and thicker than a lot of the MSRP cards but again that increased surface area of the cooler and more fans is going to help it hit the higher boost clocks and maintain them more easily which should in turn mean higher FPS overall now tucked into the side you'll find the usual 12 VH pwr connector meaning it only needs a single power plug however there is quite a large void in that back section too just enough to get my little finger in not that I think it needs more heat sink but I guess it would have been nice to see all of the available space used as well the back plate is made from a single piece of metal and comes with this cool digital artwork printed onto it as well as a large section of ventilation towards the back of the card allowing more heat to be exhausted away more easily at the back you'll find three display ports and one HDMI connection the same as seen on the founders edition of the RTX 4070 super and the other MSRP cards now with the PCB torn down the PCB looks surprisingly clean and tidy there are six memory ic's each one being 2 gig and gives us the 12 gig of vram in total all of the capacitors and chokes on the vrm have been upgraded to premium grade Hardware such as those 20K 105c rated capacitors which are much more durable and reliable than the ones seen on the MSRP cards there's even more on the back of the pcb2 which I haven't actually seen on any other RTX 4070 super yet so the overall power delivery and power conditioning is certainly upgraded here the heat sink is large with six massive heat pipes running through the largest section of it and three more through the block directly above the GPU there are good quality thermal pads deployed on the memory ic's as well as each Bank of capacitors ensuring all major components are directly cool the fans are all mounted onto the single piece shroud which is plastic on the inside but it has that metal skin on the exterior and then the fans themselves are all screwed into flexible mounts with anti vibration pads on the back to prevent vibrations against the heat sink so I think we can all agree it's a pretty decent looking card and once broken down you can tell it does mean business so I guess on the cooling and acoustic side I am actually expecting good things from the isus tough gameing OC but what about the other card we have here the gigabyte game well being part of the gigabyte gaming series you get Ultra durable certified metal chokes lower ESR solid capacitors a 2 oz copper PCB and much like the isus a more robust set of mosfets now these things aren't I guess uncommon on high graphics cards from other brands but it's still great to see an attention to detail that will ensure firstly reliability and secondly performance especially when the card is being hammered and getting warm after those long gaming sessions the addition of the bigger coola will certainly help help too and while the design is largely unchanged we know the wind Force cooler to be a reliable platform now as you might expect the wind Force cooler is the one that we know and love we've said it time and time again in our videos and while the general length and width changes the design philosophy is very much what we expect from this iconic cooler that's been going for many many years now what I have noticed though is that the 11 blade fans with their thinner fins aren't present instead gigabyte are using a wider fin nine blade design which should allow for a lot of air pressure at a lower RPM now gigabyte hasn't changed the X3 configuration though as the middle fan still spins the other way to the outside fans creating a big air vortex in the heat sink to improve heat dissipation and all of the fans are individually pwm controlled with zero RPM modes so it seems to tick all of the right boxes now we admit the card is a little bit thicker push to a triple slot design compared to most of the MSRP cards that were all pretty much dual slot designs this means there's a much thicker heat sink in this card and bigger fans allowing the card to run a bigger overclock and to deliver more cooling performance at the same time there's the usual 12 vpwr connector on the side of the card 2 which are rather like as it's one cable versus the two or even three eight pin connectors that we saw on previous generations there's also a bios switch allowing you to switch between OC and Silent modes which are also handy should something go wrong flashing the BIOS as you can simply recover the GPU using the alternative bios there's a huge back plate on here too which will help protect the PCB keep the card from sagging and also provide additional cooling to the back of the card plus there's a massive cutout to allow the rear most fan to push air through the card which is exactly where the heat sink is the thickest and most dense so again this should help immensely with cooling performance now towards the back you'll find three display ports and a single HDMI port so nothing out the ordinary based on what we've seen before on other 4070 super cards now with the cooler strip down the PCB is pretty densely packed and there's clearly more going on with the vrm with more f bles and chokes versus the founders Edition card nod into the bigger overclock and the need for a more robust cooling solution there's a typical 62 gig vram ic's here given the card it's 12 gig total vram which is I guess kind of a minimum in 2024 I know there's a lot of complaints last year when cards were coming out with 8 gig or sometimes even less now the back of the card is pretty neat and tidy as gigabyte uses a fully automated processor ensures there are no sharp points on the solder the back plate is also a single piece construction that uses a screw through design to sandwich the PCB without putting undue stress on the board and it should actually help to dissipate heat that sits in this area as well now I will admit I love this heat sink it's absolutely packed with things while also being a little thicker and wider than most in its class giving it an increased surface area and as you can see there are thermal pads for all of the memory ic's including two for the empty slots suggesting that they use the same block on the 16 gig TI versions that are coming a little bit later on it wouldn't surprise me now there are pads for all of the phases and vrm Hardware too so everything is directly cooled and fed into the copper plate and the six massive heat pipes so again another great looking card now these are still 4070 supers at the heart of it so really we need to find and make sure that they are working as they should where we've already tested four MSRP based 4070 supers we already have somewhat of a baseline figure so we know where they should be performing obviously they are slightly overclocked so maybe we're expecting a little bit more performance but there are so many variables at play there now when it comes to testing different models of the same GPU we don't bother running it through the same amount of tests because some models are so close in performance to each other that we wouldn't really be showing too much instead we run it in a small smattering of games to kind of make sure that the figures are where we expect them to be based on a baseline from our initial launch day review where in this case we use the RTX 4070 super Founders card from Nvidia so for this this we booted up six different games at 1440p which is kind of where the 4070 super is actually targeted at to see if both the isus and the gigabyte gave us any extra performance so starting with Boulders Gate 3 where our performance on the Fe card was already at 126 FPS but the isus came in 5% faster at 132 FPS and the gigabyte gaming OC at 134 FPS making it about 6% faster so some fairly strong gains over a reference spec this also puts both card slightly above the 38 Titi and edging closer to the performance of the 47 Titi booing up Call of Duty where our Baseline was set at 130 FPS the Aus didn't really offer much in extra performance at 131 FPS so definitely within margin of error while the gigabyte card did improve on that a little more at 133 so still within the same margin of error but slightly higher with a 2% Improvement overall in cyberp Punk our Fe scores an impressive 83 frames per second and again isus come in just a single FPS higher so a 1% margin but if we were to test again we could see the Fe increase by a frame and the isus tough gaming drop by a frame it's a pretty matched performance overall again gigabyte did come out on top at 86 FPS which is a 4% lead over the founders card but we I guess generally consider anything under around 5% to be within a marginal difference and would typically call it as the same performance plus or minus moving on to Spider-Man and 181 FPS was the number to beat and both of them did with the isus coming in at 184 FPS and the gigabyte at 188 so about 2% and 4% respectively so again gigabyte is the faster of the two but in terms of real well gameplay it's not anything you'd notice anyway in Ratchet and Clank at 1440p the 4070 super comes in with performance at 124 FPS with the isus just ahead by 2% at 127 FPS and the gigabyte ahead again further than that at 129 frames per second putting it 4% ahead of the f8 then lastly in Starfield we see our biggest gains from the 85 FPS that the Fe gave us to 93 FPS on the gigabyte which is a 9% increase and 94 FPS on the isus card which is an impressive 11% Improvement so there are gains to be had depending on the game you play so some pretty good numbers but for the most part the gains were as big as you'd expect within a margin of each other sure things may level out overall across multiple games when looking at the dips and the 1% lows but that's about where it really ends now the biggest point with custom aib cards is going to come down to cooling performance because that can open up extra Headroom not only for the likes of overclocking but also for long-term gaming sessions where consistently running a longer boost can actually give better and more let's say glamorized figures overall so with that in mind it's time to take a look at the f123 1hour stress test that we do on every card we look at right off the bat we can see that the gaming OC does a great job at taming the 4070 supers core with nice and cool temperatures at an average of around 61° the Hotpot also managed to stay nicely cool at just 71° whilst the memory temperature managed to sit even lower with an average of just 58° which I guess for the extra cost of this card is something that's very much welcomed now with the temperatures of the card being pretty low and with this being an overclock card the clock speed manages to get a pretty decent jump over the MSRP 4070 supers that we looked at yesterday with the core clock on this card managing to sit just under 2,800 MHz during all of this the fan managed to stay I guess pretty quiet running at around 1,775 RPM whilst the card used no more than any other 4070 super we looked at with an average of just 218 Watts moving over to the isus tough gameing and this also managed to keep temperatures low with a core temperature of just 61° whilst the hot spots sat around 70° on average the memory is the hottest part around 72° but at that temperature it's still nothing nothing particularly warm for a GPU of this caliber now in terms of the clock speeds we see nothing unexpected with a high core clock of 2750 MHz on average so not as high as the gigabyte but still higher than the MSRP cards we looked at yesterday the card consumed around 29 wat of power on average whil the fan barely span up and only sat around 1,350 RPM throughout the test meaning that you could easily bump the fan speed and see a lot of improvements in the already reasonable temperatures and possibly even see a boost in the clock speeds so cooling wise there's definite improvements by getting a card like either the isus or the gigabyte with their much larger and more refined cooling solutions and that does show in the performance we saw during the 1hour long stress test now it's also clear that you know you do get much better quality materials over an MSRP card with I guess the founders being the one exception because it is very industrious and made from mixed Metals the rest of the MSRP stack was more on the let's say plastic side and that's where I feel that paying the extra which for both of these cards will be about $50 to $80 more for either of them and that is kind of where the cost itself actually goes in the materials so what I'm trying to say is there's no wool being pulled over your eyes or anything like that you are actually getting an improved quality card which not only looks and feels great but allows extra gaming performance as seen in our charts along with extra cooling performance as s in F1 now between the two it's a tough one I think it's very close and while I do prefer the look of the Aus tough which I guess just feels slightly more premium for the most part the gigabyte is the better performer and is better at keeping things under control in terms of temperatures but I also get that some people are very brand Allegient so we'll buy a Zeus because they have an isus motherboard and we want to fulfill that ecosystem of all of the same brand parts either way way you're not going to be disappointed with either of the cards while the extra cost does mean it edges closer to the price of the 47 TI MSRP or the upcoming 4070 TI super MSRP which are both at $799 it's still around 120 to $150 cheaper for a high-end skew of the 4070 super lineup which I guess what I'm trying to say is enough of a gap there's nothing worse when you're plagued with the decision of buying a high-end card of one series or a low-end card of the next GPU up in the stack because there's only you know pennies between them luckily that's not the case here and the performance is therefore about the right money though as I said in my 4070 super MSRP content AMD in their 7800 XT could force Nvidia to drop the price slightly as the one big selling point Nvidia have is dlss but even with the uptake on dlss titles coming through thick and fast not every game can utilize it yet so there you go that's about going to do it for this one let me know as Zeus or gigabyte or would you rather have something cheaper in the MSRP space to get let's say 90% of the performance but for a lesser price let me know in the comments section below as always if you enjoyed this video then a like and a sub to the channel would be amazing and if you love what we do then you can help support us through patreon where 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Length: 17min 30sec (1050 seconds)

Published: Wed Jan 17 2024