Introduction

ASUS ROG Strix GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER OC is a swanky new premium custom design graphics card leading the pack of today's round of RTX 4070 Ti SUPER graphics cards that are priced above the NVIDIA MSRP. The ASUS ROG Strix needs no introduction, it's generally regarded as one of the most over-the-top custom-design cards, featuring some of the largest cooling solutions, backed by a product design that's easily in the league of NVIDIA's Founders Edition cards, but at a steep premium. The new GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER is part of a three-card refresh of the upper end of NVIDIA's RTX 40-series Ada generation. While the RTX 4070 Ti SUPER is still recommended by NVIDIA for 1440p maxed out AAA gameplay with ray tracing; even the original RTX 4070 Ti was tested by us to be capable of more; including gameplay at 4K Ultra HD with fairly high settings. The ideal situation for the RTX 4070 Ti SUPER would be 1440p high refresh-rate displays, such as 144 Hz or 165 Hz, where the GPU is able to put out high enough frame rates, with technologies such as G-SYNC smoothing things out for the output. Even at 4K, you have DLSS or the newer DLSS 3 Frame Generation at your disposal.



The SUPER brand moniker denotes performance increases at existing price points, not new features. The RTX 4070 Ti SUPER is coming in at the same starting price as the RTX 4070 Ti did, which is being phased out as a result. The AD104 powers the bulk of the RTX 4070 series, which has been maxed out with the original RTX 4070 Ti; meaning NVIDIA has to tap into the larger AD103 silicon that powers the RTX 4080, the upcoming RTX 4080 SUPER; and the mobile RTX 4090 series. The biggest specs upgrade the RTX 4070 Ti SUPER gets over its predecessor is memory. With the AD103 comes its wider 256-bit memory bus, which NVIDIA is using to drive 16 GB of memory on the RTX 4070 Ti SUPER. This memory ticks at 21 Gbps, compared to 22.5 Gbps for the RTX 4080, but is still a significant 33% increase in both memory bandwidth and size, compared to that of the RTX 4070 Ti, with its 192-bit memory bus. Since the AD103 has an SM count of 80, compared to 60 of the AD104; NVIDIA also gave the RTX 4070 Ti SUPER 10% more shaders. The ROP count also sees a 20% increase. What remain the same are the on-die cache size of 48 MB, and the power limit of 285 W.

NVIDIA carved the RTX 4070 Ti SUPER out of the 5 nm AD103 silicon by enabling 66 out of 80 SM, resulting in 8,448 CUDA cores, 264 Tensor cores, 66 RT cores, and 264 TMUs. The company also enabled 96 out of the 112 ROPs, which is still a 20% increase over the 80 ROPs of the RTX 4070 Ti. From the 64 MB of L2 cache available, however, only 48 MB is enabled. The GPU runs at a boost frequency of 2610 MHz, which ASUS has overclocked to 2670 MHz; while the memory is left untouched at 21 Gbps.

The Ada Lovelace graphics architecture powering the RTX 4070 Ti SUPER debuts generational gains in performance and energy efficiency, thanks to the new 5 nm EUV foundry node. The Ada CUDA core, besides the usual IPC gains, now supports shader execution reordering, which benefits ray tracing workloads. The 3rd generation RT core improves ray intersection performance, as well as introduces support for displaced micro-meshes, a feature that should increase the geometric complexity of ray traced objects. The new optical flow accelerator is a required hardware resource for DLSS 3 Frame Generation to work. NVIDIA also re-architected the memory sub-system to place larger on-die caches.

The ASUS ROG Strix RTX 4070 Ti SUPER OC features the same variant of its premium ROG Strix cooling solution that's featured on the ROG Strix RTX 4070 Ti; and not the larger cooler that the company uses on its RTX 4080 and RTX 4090 ROG Strix products. The heatsink, although large by RTX 4070 Ti SUPER standards with a total card weight of over 1.7 kg; is slightly smaller internally from the RTX 4080 ROG Strix, has fewer heat pipes, and lacks a vapor chamber plate. Should this make a difference? We don't think so, given that the RTX 4070 Ti SUPER has the same 285 W TGP as the RTX 4070 Ti; but then ASUS is pricing the ROG Strix RTX 4070 Ti SUPER OC at $950, a rather large $150 premium. There are several premium touches besides the cooler, including an elaborate RGB LED lighting setup, dual-BIOS, with a Quiet BIOS that runs the card at reference clocks and lower fan speeds.

Short 10-Minute Video Comparing 10x RTX 4070 Ti Super

Our goal with the videos is to create short summaries, not go into all the details and test results, which can be found in our written reviews.