Gigabyte RTX 4070 Ti SUPER WINDFORCE OC Graphics Card Review

Cyberpunk 2077

Cyberpunk 2077 is an open-world, action-adventure RPG set in the megalopolis of Night City, where you play as a cyberpunk mercenary wrapped up in a do-or-die fight for survival. Improved and featuring all-new free additional content, customize your character and playstyle as you take on jobs, build a reputation, and unlock upgrades. The relationships you forge and the choices you make will shape the story and the world around you. Legends are made here. What will yours be?

Available now on Steam.

Booting up Cyberpunk and 1080p is frankly, all over the place. It’s clear to see that a lot of cards are severely bottlenecked at 1080p so analysing the data serves no purpose other than saying that anything from the 3080 Ti upwards will net you some strong performance.

1440p sees the results line up a lot better and sees some steady gains of 7% from the Ti to the Ti SUPER and a stronger 11% increase in the lows too. This also means that the Ti SUPER now pushes past the RTX 3090, 3080 Ti and 6950 XT, so this is more like it, and hopefully continues this trend.

At 4K, it shows that this upward trend is short-lived as we now drop down to just a 3% uplift in performance so that extra 4GB of VRAM isn’t doing much at all, though we could potentially see game updates or driver fixes improve upon it, but I’m not expecting miracles.

Enabling Ray Tracing at 1080p sees much better gains of around 11%, likely down to the increased RT core count, and much more of what I was expecting from this card. It doesn’t mean that the standings in our charts change, but better performance for the same price is welcomed at this level.

It’s a similar affair at 1440p where we we do see the same 11% increase in performance, which again just further extends the lead, and draws closer to the RTX 4080, though with that being replaced by the SUPER variant soon, that gap will increase yet again.

4K sees the biggest margin of 26%, which pushes the TI SUPER above the RTX 3090, 3080 Ti and 7900 XTX, though with such a demanding game and resolution, DLSS is going to be the saviour here because even with the increased performance, 24 FPS and lows of 20 aren’t going to cut it.