ASUS TUF Gaming RTX 4070 SUPER Graphics Card Review

A Closer Look

First of all, this is a stunning look piece of gaming hardware, albeit, it doesn’t look all the unlike previous TUF gaming cards, but if it isn’t broken, don’t fix it. This is a pretty significantly sized cooler too, so taming the RTX 4070 SUPER chipset 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 edge that joins the fins together. This design helps prevent air from being pushed sidewards from the fan and instead more directly down through the GPU heatsink.

Unlike some of the more affordable RTX 4070 Super cards, this one features an all-metal shroud too, which looks gorgeous with its gun-metal finish.

It is quite thick too, coming in at three slots 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 mean higher FPS overall.

Tucked into the side, you’ll find the usual 12VHPWR, meaning it only needs a single power connector. However, there is quite a large voice in that back section too, just enough to get my little finger in, not that I think it needs more heatsink, but it would be nice to see all the available space used too.

The backplate 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 DisplayPort and one HDMI connection, the same as seen on the Founders Edition of the RTX 4070 Super.

With the PCB torn down, the PCB looks surprisingly clean and tidy.

There are six memory ICs, each is 2GB and gives us the 12GB VRAM 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 PCB too, which I haven’t seen on any other RTX 4070 Super yet, so the overall power delivery and power conditioning is certainly upgraded here.

The heatsink is huge, with six massive heat pipes running through the largest section of the heatsink, and three more through the block directly above the GPU. There are good quality thermal pads deployed on the memory ICs, as well as each bank of capacitors, ensuring all many components are directly cooled.

The fans are all mounted into the single-piece shroud which is plastic on the inside but has that metal skin on the exterior. The fans are all screwed into flexible mounts with anti-vibration pads on the back to prevent vibrations against the heatsink.