Gigabyte RTX 4070 Gaming OC Graphics Card Review

So performance was where I expected it to be, slightly higher, but nothing of real significance, but that’s just how GPUs behave these days. They are so close in performance, that the only varying factor comes down to the cooler and the performance that gives us.

To measure this, we put the card under a one-hour prolonged loop in F1 22 at 4K and it’s here where we found the GPU temperature coming in at 58 degrees, a cool 7 degrees lower than the Founders card, while the hot spot also came in 9 degrees lower than the founders at 70 degrees, and the memory a whopping 22 degrees lower, at a very comfortable 54 degrees. All of this was achieved with the fans ramping up to 1621 RPM and using slightly more power than the reference card, at 202 Watts.

Stock

So it’s pretty clear to see that the Gaming OC cooler does an amazing job at keeping temperatures under control, and the fans didn’t go crazy either, so there really is no trade-off for those amazingly cool temperatures. In theory, this should give us some room for overclocking, which is where we found that we could raise the power limit by 148% along with the core clock by 160MHz and the memory clock by 600MHz resulting in a boost clock of 2725MHz and a memory clock of 1388MHz or 22.2Gbps Effective.

Overclocked

What this meant for cooling performance is that during another F1 22 one-hour loop we didn’t really see much of a change. The GPU, hotspot and memory all stayed at the same temperatures, with the only changes coming by way of the fan speed, which increased by 2RPM to 1623 and the power increased slightly from 202 Watts, up to 205 Watts.

OC Game Performance

What this means for performance is where we find ourselves booting up Call Of Duty again and seeing that the overclock helped gain a 4% performance boost, not putting it above the RTX 3080 10GB..

In Cyberpunk, we saw a much smaller 2% increase in performance over the stock results, which further pushes it ahead of the FE and INNO3D cards and closer to that of the 6800 XT, though does command higher 1% lows.

Death Stranding saw another healthy 4% uplift in performance over the stock results, but this only puts it 1FPS ahead of the NVIDIA FE card in both the averages and the 1% lows, which doesn’t really make the effort worth it for overclocking on this title.

Then finally in Watch Dogs:Legion, we only see a 1% increase in performance in both the averages and 1% lows, which while free performance is nice to see, it’s nothing groundbreaking.