ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 4070 Ti 12GB GDDR6X OC Edition Review

ASUS TUF GeForce RTX 4070 Ti 12GB review



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1 – Overview

The GeForce RTX 4070 Ti is the third member of the RTX 40 family and has been launched in the first days of 2023. This card was originally branded as a RTX 4080 12GB but NVIDIA unlaunched this RTX 4080 and rebranded it as the RTX 4070 Ti.

The RTX 4070 Ti is based on the AD104 GPU (Ada Lovelace architecture) and packs 7680 shader processors (or CUDA cores). This TUF model has a factory-overclocked GPU: OC mode up to 2760 MHz and default mode up to 2730 MHz (RTX 40 Ti reference board has a boost clock speed of 2610 MHz). This factory OC brings an immediate gain of +6%. The RTX 4070 Ti embarks 12GB of GDDR6X video memory that talks with the GPU on a 192-bit bus. The RTX 4070 Ti reference board can pull up to 285W and you can expect a bit more for this TUF RTX 4070 Ti (see the burn-in test section for more details).

The ASUS TUF RTX 4070 Ti is a 3.25-slot graphics card and its mass is 1.320kg.

More marketing explanations and specifications can be found on the ASUS TUF RTX 4070 Ti homepage.

 

2 – Gallery

The bundle includes the following items:
– the TUF RTX 4070 Ti
– a certificate of reliability (military tests!)
– an installation guide
– a two 8-pin to one 16-pin power adapter
– a mobile phone holder
– a collection TUF Gaming card (in cardboard)
– a graphics card holder (the TUF RTX 4070 Ti is heavy…)
– a TUF velcro hook and loop

ASUS TUF GeForce RTX 4070 Ti OC 12GB Review
ASUS TUF GeForce RTX 4070 Ti OC 12GB Review

 
The bundle items:
ASUS TUF GeForce RTX 4070 Ti OC 12GB Review

 
The dual 8-pin to 16-pin cable adapter:
ASUS TUF GeForce RTX 4070 Ti OC 12GB Review
ASUS TUF GeForce RTX 4070 Ti OC 12GB Review

 
The collection TUF Gaming card:
ASUS TUF GeForce RTX 4070 Ti OC 12GB Review

 
The mobile phone holder. Handy gadget, it’s easy to mount and is stable. Now my phone has a real place in the mess of my desk.
ASUS TUF GeForce RTX 4070 Ti OC 12GB Review
ASUS TUF GeForce RTX 4070 Ti OC 12GB Review
ASUS TUF GeForce RTX 4070 Ti OC 12GB Review





 
The graphics card holder. When mounting horizontally in a case, this gadget is useful to support the mass of the TUF RTX 4070 Ti: 1.320kg. Thanks to the screw, you can tune the height of the holder.
ASUS TUF GeForce RTX 4070 Ti OC 12GB Review

 
The graphics card with a 3.25-slot design. I really love the industrial look of the card.
ASUS TUF GeForce RTX 4070 Ti OC 12GB Review
ASUS TUF GeForce RTX 4070 Ti OC 12GB Review

 
The VGA cooler has three 9-cm fans. These fans are stopped in idle / light workload and spin when workload is higher:

The two side fans spin counterclockwise to minimize turbulence and maximize air dispersion through the heatsink. All three fans come to a standstill when GPU temps are below 50 Celsius, letting you play less-demanding games or perform light tasks in relative silence. Fans start up again when temps are over 55 Celsius, referencing a speed curve that balances performance and acoustics for work or play.

That’s why in GPU monitoring tools like GPU Shark or GPU-Z, there are only two fan sensors for this RTX 4070 Ti: one sensor is for the middle fan and the second one is for the two side fans.

ASUS TUF GeForce RTX 4070 Ti OC 12GB Review

 
Output connectors: two HDMi 2.1a (up to 4k @ 240Hz or 8k @ 60Hz) and three DisplayPort 1.4a (up to 4k @ 240Hz or 8k @ 60Hz).
ASUS TUF GeForce RTX 4070 Ti OC 12GB Review

 
The aluminum backplate.
ASUS TUF GeForce RTX 4070 Ti OC 12GB Review

 
The dual-bios switch. Default position is on Performance mode.
ASUS TUF GeForce RTX 4070 Ti OC 12GB Review

 
The 16-pin 12VHPWR power connector (300W).
ASUS TUF GeForce RTX 4070 Ti OC 12GB Review

 
The ARGB lighting (that can be controlled by AURA compatible software):
ASUS TUF GeForce RTX 4070 Ti OC 12GB Review

ASUS TUF GeForce RTX 4070 Ti OC 12GB Review

 

3 – GPU Information

GPU data from the new GPU Shark 2:
ASUS TUF GeForce RTX 4070 Ti OC 12GB - GPU Shark 2

 
GPU-Z screenshots.
ASUS TUF GeForce RTX 4070 Ti OC 12GB - GPU-Z
ASUS TUF GeForce RTX 4070 Ti OC 12GB - GPU-Z, hardware sensors



 

4 – GPU Benchmarks

 

Arc A380 Test System 2
CPU AMD Ryzen 7 5800X
Motherboard ASUS TUF X570-Plus
Memory 16GB DDR4 Corsair Vengeance LED @ 3200MHz
PSU Corsair RM1000x
Storage Samsung 860 EVO 1TB SSD
Monitor ASUS TUF VG289Q 4K
OS Windows 10 22H2 64-bit
Graphics driver GeForce 528.49

 

4.1 – 3DMark FireStrike

Fire Strike is a DirectX 11 benchmark for high-performance gaming PCs and overclocked systems. Fire Strike is very demanding, even for the latest graphics cards. If your frame rate is low, use Sky Diver instead.

Graphics test 1 has heavy tessellation and volumetric illumination. Graphics test 2 features complex smoke simulation using compute shaders on the GPU and dynamic particle illumination.

The Physics test runs 32 parallel simulations of soft and rigid body physics on the CPU.

The Combined test includes tessellation, illumination, smoke simulation and particles and post-processing on the GPU, while the CPU is tasked with running 32 parallel physics simulations.

Firestrike has a global score and three sub-scores (graphics, physics and combined). For this test, I compare the graphics score only.

77375
SAPPHIRE Nitro+ Radeon RX 7900 XTX 24GB – Adrenalin 23.1.2
53903
ASUS TUF RTX 4070 Ti 12GB OC – GeForce 528.49
48432
ASUS TUF Radeon RX 6800 XT OC 16GB – Adrenalin 20.12.2
31431
Intel Arc A750 LE – Intel 31.0.101.3793 – Resizable BAR: ON
29130
GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Gaming OC 8G – GeForce 460.79
13079
EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 SC 6GB – GeForce 416.94
11368
MSI GeForce GTX 970 – GeForce 416.94
9402
ASRock Arc A380 – Intel 31.0.101.3491
8616
MSI Radeon HD 7970 – Adrenalin 18.11.1

 

4.2 – 3DMark TimeSpy

Time Spy is a DirectX 12 benchmark with native support for new API features like asynchronous compute, explicit multi-adapter, and multi-threading.
Time Spy Graphics tests are rendered at 2560 × 1440 resolution.

Graphics test 1 features lots of transparent content, particle shadows, and tessellation. Graphics test 2 features ray-marched volumetric illumination
with hundreds of lights and a large number of small particles.

Same thing, I took the graphics score only.

29930
SAPPHIRE Nitro+ Radeon RX 7900 XTX 24GB – Adrenalin 23.1.2
22263
ASUS TUF RTX 4070 Ti 12GB OC – GeForce 528.49
16294
ASUS TUF Radeon RX 6800 XT OC 16GB – Adrenalin 20.12.2
12264
Intel Arc A750 LE – Intel 31.0.101.3793 – Resizable BAR: ON
10837
GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Gaming OC 8G – GeForce 460.79
10415
ASUS ROG Strix GeForce RTX 2080 OC 8GB – GeForce 460.89
8461
MSI GeForce RTX 2070 Ventus 8GB – GeForce 417.01
4776
SAPPHIRE Radeon RX 5500 XT Pulse – Adrenalin 20.01.3
4334
ASRock Arc A380 – Intel 31.0.101.3491 – Resizable BAR: OFF
4301
ASRock Arc A380 – Intel 31.0.101.3491 – Resizable BAR: ON
4244
EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 SC 6GB – GeForce 416.94
753
Intel UHD Graphics 770 – Intel 31.0.101.1371

 

4.3 – 3DMark Port Royal

Port Royal is a graphics card benchmark for testing real-time ray tracing performance. To run this test, you must have a graphics card and drivers that support Microsoft DirectX Raytracing.

The test measures graphics card performance with a combination of real-time ray tracing and traditional rendering techniques. The scene features ray traced reflections, shadows (ray traced and shadow mapped), glass surfaces with ray traced reflections, volumetric lighting, particles, and post-processing effects. The rendering resolution is 2560 × 1440.

15816
SAPPHIRE Nitro+ Radeon RX 7900 XTX 24GB – Adrenalin 23.1.2
13859
ASUS TUF RTX 4070 Ti 12GB OC – GeForce 528.49
9149
ASUS TUF Radeon RX 6800 XT OC 16GB – Adrenalin 20.12.2
6916
GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Gaming OC 8G – GeForce 460.79
6512
Intel Arc A750 LE – Intel 31.0.101.3793 – Resizable BAR: ON
6863
ASUS ROG Strix GeForce RTX 2080 OC 8GB – GeForce 460.89
745
ASRock Arc A380 – Intel 31.0.101.3491 – Resizable BAR: ON
666
ASRock Arc A380 – Intel 31.0.101.3491 – Resizable BAR: OFF

 

4.4 – 3DMark DX Raytracing Test

The DirectX Raytracing feature test measures pure ray-tracing performance. Use this test to compare the performance of dedicated ray-tracing hardware in the latest graphics cards.

In this feature test, there is a minimal amount of traditional rendering. The result of the test depends entirely on the ray-tracing performance of the graphics card.

Instead of using traditional rendering, the whole scene is ray-traced and drawn in one pass. Camera rays are traced across the field of view with small random offsets to simulate a depth of field effect. The frame rate is determined by the time taken to trace and shade a set number of samples for each
pixel (12 samples per pixel), combine the results with previous samples and present the output on the screen. The rendering resolution is 2560 × 1440.

3DMark DX Raytracing Test

66.85
ASUS TUF RTX 4070 Ti 12GB OC – GeForce 528.49
51.86
SAPPHIRE Nitro+ Radeon RX 7900 XTX 24GB – Adrenalin 23.1.2
28.78 FPS
Intel Arc A750 LE – Intel 31.0.101.3793 – Resizable BAR: ON
27.43
GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Gaming OC 8G – GeForce 522.25
25.25 FPS
ASUS TUF Radeon RX 6800 XT OC 16GB – Adrenalin 22.10.1
21.5 FPS
ASUS ROG Strix GeForce RTX 2080 OC 8GB – GeForce 522.25
9 FPS
ASRock Arc A380 – Intel 31.0.101.3491

 

4.5 – 3DMark Speed Way

3DMark Speed Way is a graphics card benchmark for testing DirectX 12 Ultimate performance. To run this test, you must have a graphics card that supports DirectX 12 Ultimate and has 6GB or more of video memory.

Graphics test: the test measures graphics card performance with a combination of real-time ray tracing and traditional rendering techniques. The scene features ray traced reflections, real time global illumination, mesh shaders, volumetric lighting, particles and post-processing effects. The rendering resolution is 2560 × 1440.

3DMark Speed Way Test

6294
SAPPHIRE Nitro+ Radeon RX 7900 XTX 24GB – Adrenalin 23.1.2
5374
ASUS TUF RTX 4070 Ti 12GB OC – GeForce 528.49
3433 (avg FPS: 34)
ASUS TUF Radeon RX 6800 XT OC 16GB – Adrenalin 22.10.1
2970 (avg FPS: 29)
GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Gaming OC 8G – GeForce 522.25
2320 (23.2 FPS)
Intel Arc A750 LE – Intel 31.0.101.3793 – Resizable BAR: ON
2168 (avg FPS: 21)
ASUS ROG Strix GeForce RTX 2080 OC 8GB – GeForce 522.25
434 (avg FPS: 4)
ASRock Arc A380 6GB – Resizable BAR: ON – Intel 31.0.101.3491
375 (avg FPS: 3)
ASRock Arc A380 6GB – Resizable BAR: OFF – Intel 31.0.101.3491

 

4.6 – Unigine Superposition – 1080p Medium – Direct3D

38879 (avg FPS: 290)
SAPPHIRE Nitro+ Radeon RX 7900 XTX 24GB – Adrenalin 23.1.2
37445 (avg FPS: 280)
ASUS TUF RTX 4070 Ti 12GB OC – GeForce 528.49
21154 (avg FPS: 175)
GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Gaming OC 8G – GeForce 460.79
20985 (avg FPS: 157)
ASUS TUF Radeon RX 6800 XT OC 16GB – Adrenalin 20.12.2
20923 (156 FPS)
Intel Arc A750 LE – Intel 31.0.101.3793 – Resizable BAR: ON
9082 (avg FPS: 67.9)
EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 SC 6GB – GeForce 416.94
7166 (avg FPS: 53)
ASRock Arc A380 – Intel 31.0.101.3491 – Resizable BAR: ON
6141 (avg FPS: 46)
ASRock Arc A380 – Intel 31.0.101.3491 – Resizable BAR: OFF

 

4.7 – FurMark 1.33

FurMark is a very intensive graphics benchmark and does not depend on the processing power of the CPU. So FurMark is a quick way to have an overview of the graphics performances of a GPU.

P1080 (1920×1080)

27719 (453 FPS)
SAPPHIRE Nitro+ Radeon RX 7900 XTX 24GB – Adrenalin 23.1.2
24052 (401 FPS)
ASUS TUF RTX 4070 Ti 12GB OC – GeForce 528.49
17507 (avg FPS: 292)
ASUS TUF Radeon RX 6800 XT OC 16GB – Adrenalin 20.12.2
10530 (avg FPS: 175)
GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Gaming OC 8G – GeForce 460.79
10137 (169 FPS)
Intel Arc A750 LE – Intel 31.0.101.3793 – Resizable BAR: ON
7322 (avg FPS: 122)
ASUS ROG Strix GeForce GTX 1080 OC 8GB – GeForce 416.94
4556 (avg FPS: 76)
EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 SC 6GB – GeForce 416.94
4475 (avg FPS: 75)
SAPPHIRE Radeon RX 5500 XT Pulse – Adrenalin 20.01.3
3246 (avg FPS: 54)
MSI Radeon HD 7970 – Adrenalin 18.11.1
3036 (avg FPS: 50)
ASRock Arc A380 – Intel 31.0.101.3491 – Resizable BAR: ON
2969 (avg FPS: 49)
ASRock Arc A380 – Intel 31.0.101.3491 – Resizable BAR: OFF
714 (avg FPS: 12)
Intel UHD Graphics 770 – Intel 31.0.101.1371

 

4.8 – Rhodium LC

Rhodium LC (LC for Liquid Carbon!) is a new GPU pixel shader benchmark made with GeeXLab and based on this shadertoy demo. You can download RhodiumLC from THIS PAGE.


GeeXLab pixel shader benchmark

 

P1080 (1920×1080)

17026 (283 FPS)
SAPPHIRE Nitro+ Radeon RX 7900 XTX 24GB – Adrenalin 23.1.2
8721 (145 FPS)
ASUS TUF RTX 4070 Ti 12GB OC – GeForce 528.49
6189 (103 FPS)
Intel Arc A750 LE – Intel 31.0.101.3793 – Resizable BAR: ON
5740 (avg FPS: 95)
ASUS TUF Radeon RX 6800 XT OC 16GB – Adrenalin 20.12.2
4853 (avg FPS: 80)
ASUS ROG Strix GeForce RTX 2080 OC 8GB – GeForce 416.94
4094 (avg FPS: 68)
GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Gaming OC 8G – GeForce 526.98
2835 (avg FPS: 47)
EVGA GeForce GTX 1070 FTW – GeForce 416.94
2773 (avg FPS: 46)
ASUS Strix Radeon RX 5700 – Adrenalin 20.12.2
1923 (avg FPS: 32)
EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 SC 6GB – GeForce 416.94
1755 (avg FPS: 29)
SAPPHIRE Radeon RX 5500 XT Pulse – Adrenalin 20.01.3
1719 (avg FPS: 28)
ASRock Arc A380 – Intel 31.0.101.3491
1484 (avg FPS: 24)
MSI GeForce GTX 970 – GeForce 416.94
1192 (avg FPS: 19)
MSI Radeon RX 470 8GB – Adrenalin 18.11.1
303 (avg FPS: 5)
Intel UHD Graphics 770 – Intel 31.0.101.1371

 

5 – Burn-in Test

The burn-in test has been done with the new version of FurMark 2 (beta version available on discord). This version of FurMark is 64-bit and uses OpenGL or Vulkan API. I used the OpenGL version for the stress test. I did two stress tests: the first one with the power limit target set to 100% (default mode in ASUS GPU Tweak III) and the second one set to +110% (OC mode in GPU Tweak).

During both stress tests, the BIOS switch was on the position 1 (max performance).

ASUS TUF GeForce RTX 4070 Ti OC 12GB Review - FurMark2 stress test

 
Idle state
– total power consumption of the testbed: 110W
– GPU temperature: 45°C
– total graphics card: 39W

 
Stress test 1 – Default mode – Power limit set to 100%, GPU clock: 2730 MHz
– total power consumption of the testbed: 415W
– GPU temperature: 65°C
– total graphics card: 284W (GPU clock: 2505 MHz)

ASUS TUF GeForce RTX 4070 Ti OC 12GB Review - GPU Tweak III, default mode

 
Stress test 2 – OC mode – Power limit set to 110%, GPU clock: 2760 MHz
– total power consumption of the testbed: 446W
– GPU temperature: 67°C
– total graphics card: 312W (GPU clock: 2610 MHz)

ASUS TUF GeForce RTX 4070 Ti OC 12GB Review - GPU Tweak III, OC mode

Under heavy stress test, the fans are audible. The noise is very reasonable though (open case, bench table). But, and this is the important thing, the cooler does its job by keeping the GPU temperature under control: 67°C was the max reached. And I had no thermal / electrical issue with the 16-pin power connector.

 

6 – Conclusion

Here are pros and cons of this graphics card:

PROS:

  • industrial look, AURA lighting
  • ASUS GPU Tweak
  • ray tracing performance (faster than RX 7900 XTX)
  • factory overclocked (+6%)
  • gadgets: mobile phone holder, graphics card holder
  • passive mode in idle and light graphics workload
  • two HDMI 2.1 and three DP 1.4a ports
  • efficient VGA cooler
  • very low power consumption at idle: 3W

CONS:

  • power consumption at idle: 40W. I’m sorry but today, electricity is expensive and its production has a massive impact on our environment, so 40W just to display the Windows desktop is a bit too much (for comparison, the Radeon 7900 XTX pulls 10W at idle).
  • fans are a bit audible under heavy load

For graphics developers, the RTX 40 supports the same features than previous gen RTX 30. The RTX 4070 Ti has the same number of OpenGL extensions and the same number of Vulkan device extensions than a RTX 3060 Ti. This is the state today but it may change in the future, especially in Vulkan.

 
UPDATE (2023.02.22)
After some investigations, I found why the power consumption at idle was 40W: the power management in NVIDIA 3D Settings was set to “Prefer maximum performance” (I don’t know why this option was selected). Then the GPU core clock speed was always at 2730MHz which led to the 40W at idle. Now I set the option to “Normal” and the power consumption dropped to… 3W! Just perfect.

ASUS TUF GeForce RTX 4070 Ti OC 12GB Review - Power at idle

5 thoughts on “ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 4070 Ti 12GB GDDR6X OC Edition Review”

    1. JeGX Post Author

      The GPU core clock is locked at 2730 MHz even in idle (GPU usage = 0), I think that’s the cause of the abnormal power draw at idle. Now the question: why the core clock speed stays at 2730MHz?

    2. JeGX Post Author

      I found the bug and updated the conclusion. Thanks again for your feedback!
      Now: 3W, better than TPU 😉

  1. Ben Maia

    Hi there, what would you go to for streaming while gaming in 1440p? Between 4070Ti and 7900 XTX… can’t decide thanks

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