ASUS TUF Gaming RTX 4070 SUPER Graphics Card Review
Peter Donnell / 10 months ago
How Much Does it Cost?
The Nvidia RTX 4070 Super hits the market with an MSRP of just £599, with the Founders Edition and other MSRP cards hitting that price range. Obviously, non-MSRP cards will be more than that, with the Gigabyte RTX 4070 Super OC coming in at £50 more, making it £649. However, the ASUS card is an eye-watering £725, quite a leap up, but it only goes to make the Gigabyte card look like better value for money. You could argue that the ASUS card is a more premium quality card, despite the similar performance, and it’s really down to the consumer if they want to pay extra, which is something ASUS fans have had to live with for a long time now anyway.
Given that the price of the upcoming RTX 4070 Ti Supers is said to be £799 and the RTX 4080 Super at £999, at least for the MSRP cards, it would make sense to keep some space between each model. Considering the older non-Super RTX 4070 Ti and RTX 4080 models are now officially end of life and these new cards are replacing them, it makes the Super variants extremely appealing, with more power for the same price, it’s really hard to argue. It seemed like prices would keep going up forever, but at least for now, things are heading in the right direction.
You can check Amazon for up-to-date stock and prices of the RTX 4070 Super here.
Overview
The MSRP cards we tested yesterday were an impressive start to the new RTX 4070 Super series, which saw performance improve about 10-20 FPS pretty much across the board, with an uplift in ray tracing, DLSS and other features performance too, but best of all, it did all that while still hitting the same MSRP of the older model. However, they were all MSRP cards yesterday, and this ASUS model is a fair bit more expensive. Gigabyte’s card was another £50 on top of MSRP, but better quality and performance justify that. For AASUS it’s another £125 and that is a lot of money no matter which way you look at it.
ASUS are typically the most expensive brand anyway, just because, it’s the ASUS tax, and it’s been a thing for as long as I can remember. However, it’s not all just lighting money on fire, as this is technically a much better card than the MSRP cards, and even more robust than the premium Gigabyte card.
There are upgraded capacitors, chokes and a more robust VRM overall, there’s a more premium thick metal shroud with a gorgeous sandblasted gun-metal finish, a full-metal backplate, a much heavier and more robust heatsink, better fans, and the card is just simply bigger too. It’s not hard to see where the extra investment is going, and if you’re ragging your card to its limits all day and night long, you can bet this one will be more stable than most thanks to the upgraded hardware.
Should I Buy One?
Both of these new cards performed well, offering a nice premium take on the already performance-boosting aspects of the new Super variant of the RTX 4070. However, the AMD RX 7800 XT is still a strong contender and cheaper too, but Nvidia does have a more developed and mature suite of technologies on their cards, such as AI technology integrations, DLSS, frame generation, ray tracing and much more that can certainly be worth paying the extra premium for.
MSRP Cards
- Nvidia RTX 4070 Super Founders Edition Graphics Card Review
- Gigabyte RTX 4070 Ti Super OC Graphics Card Review
- INNO3D RTX 4070 Super Twin X2 Graphics Card Review
- Palit RTX 4070 Super Dual Graphics Card Review
- Zotac Gaming RTX 4070 Super Trinity Black Edition Graphics Card Review
