Gigabyte RTX 4070 Ti SUPER WINDFORCE OC Graphics Card Review

How Much Does it Cost?

The Nvidia RTX 4070 Ti Super Cards launch today with an MSRP of $799, and while I don’t know all the prices for Non-MSRP cards, they will of course vary depending on the cooler and overclocks they each feature. What is interesting, however, is that these new Super cards launch at the same MSRP as the non-Super variants, and while our testing showed some hits and misses in benchmarking, this is still a more powerful card for the same money, so it’s hard to argue with that when Nvidia could have simply put the prices up again.

Overview

So I’m going to admit. That was painful. When looking at performance and analysing the point of our content, it’s easy to get excited when we see an evolutionary jump, but that’s not the case here. It’s slightly faster, and I’m talking marginally.

When you look at the specifications, this new graphics card is better in every way. There are higher core counts, there are more RT and Tensor cores, there’s more VRAM, the clock speeds are up, and really, that should be an indication of a pretty potent performance boost. However, from our pretty extensive testing, that’s not really what we see in the real world. It’s a little bit better, but does it feel like an upgrade? Not really, if I’m being honest. More VRAM is nice and does improve the 1% lows, but not as much as the fanatics in the internet comment sections would have you believe it would have.

DLSS and other technologies should have seen a boost too, but in games like Cyberpunk and Hogwarts Legacy, some were up, some were down, and some were about the same, so it is splitting hairs on whether this is better or not. Not that there’s anything wrong with the performance though, it’s still largely a very great card, the performance is fantastic, but it just feels like something may be missing. I hope and honestly largely expect that this will improve with a few driver updates, as things always do. I suspect in a few weeks or a couple of months, the Super variants will have a bigger lead on the non-Super cards they are replacing.

What I do like about both the Gigabyte and INNO3D cards is the cooler upgrades. Gigabyte has honed its Windforce designs over the years, and INNO3D has a great-looking product too with a 2-slot form factor. Having a premium quality cooler on this chipset showed that it can run nice and cool and quiet, while still delivering great performance overall.

Should I Buy One?

So overall, the 4070 Ti SUPER can be taken one of two ways. If you’re already rocking a 4070 Ti, then there is no reason to change to a Ti SUPER, and if you want more performance then you need to be looking at 4080 levels or above, but even then I’d personally wait for the 4080 SUPER to see what that brings, though I fear it could be the same levels as what we saw today. If however, you’re on something older and your heart was set on a 4070 Ti, then obviously it makes sense to pay the same, and get a 4070 Ti SUPER, though I’d seriously be questioning how much extra performance you’re going to be gaining over what you already have.