Gigabyte RTX 4070 SUPER Gaming OC 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 pretty impressive, offering a good performance uplift from the RTX 4070, while still hitting the same MSRP of the older model. However, if you did want to spend another £50, and there’s seemingly good reason to do so, the Gigabyte non-MSRP variant of the RTX 4070 Super holds up really well in our testing.
The card has a much larger and more refined cooling solution, and largely that’s the bulk of what you’re paying for as there’s an increased materials cost. However, the card runs cooler, quieter, and comes with a bigger factory boost clock right out of the box.
The increased cost is certainly justified by improved performance pretty much across the board here. For the most part, the less expensive Gigabyte card even managed to outperform the more premium ASUS card too, which was surprising, but I’m sure the folks at Gigabyte aren’t going to complain about that conclusion.
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
