ASUS Dual GeForce RTX™ 4070 Super White OC Edition (PCIe 4.0, 12GB GDDR6X, DLSS 3, HDMI 2.1a, DisplayPort 1.4a, 2.56-Slot Design, Axial-tech Fan Design, Auto-Extreme Technology, and More)

If you’re looking at these reviews, chances are that you’re uncertain which GPU is best for you. In my case I looked at the 7800xt, 7900xt, 4070, 4070ti, and 4070ti SUPER, but I decided on the 4070 Super. I purchased it for 609.99, and I wouldn’t pay any more for this card.TLDR:There is no perfect option for you if price is a consideration. If money is of little consequence, buy the 7900xtx or 4080 SUPER and move on with your life. If money, or overspending, is an issue, then what GPU you purchase depends on your preference and what gaming experience you’re expecting.Pricing:- The 4070 needs to be at $500, and 4070ti at $650 for those cards to be worth buying. Right now they are not competitively priced compared to the other 4 options.- The 7800xt is priced well at $480-500, has 16GB of VRAM, and performs 5-10% less compared 4070S, Overall it is a good value card if you’re into AMD, and it could suit a lot of mid range builds quite well. Despite those factors, it just wasn’t compelling enough for me to switch to AMD.- I see the 4070ti Super as a gimmick to please the people pleading for 16GB’s VRAM. Nvidia’s plan for the 4070ti/4080 12gb release was botched and it seems like they scrambled to make this card fit in the current market. It’s not really a 4k card, and performs about 15-20% better than the 4070S in 1440p, but that doesn’t doesn’t justify a 33% price increase. I would have bought that card if it was $700. Im glad I didn’t buy it because I would rather wait for Nvidia’s 5000/6000 lineup to see if they come out with actual planned mid range competitive 16-20GB cards.- The 7900xt is a great price around $720, and probably the card you should buy if you are willing to go with AMD and want something in the high end.Preference and Bias:My problem is that I have a bias towards Nvidia. I’ve had three generations of good performance from them, and I bet some of you do as well. With the amount of money Nvidia is investing in AI I believe DLSS and upscaling will be a big part of GPU strategy for the next couple of generations. Obviously time will tell, but if features like that can provide a premium gaming experience that rivals GPU’s 2x the price, it kind of changes the game. Latency is the biggest drawback for frame gen right now, but what if it was reduced to barely noticeable levels? I mean the point of games for most people is to unplug and have fun, and I think DLSS can really help people do that. I used FSR 2.0 on my 1080ti and it really helped me buy time on modern games so I could wait a little longer to get a new GPU. It’s possible that DLSS can push my 4070S performance an extra year and allow my money stretch that much further.My second bias is my perspective of AMD. I think AMD dropped the ball this generation and could have done a better job enticing Nvidia users with their marketing and initial pricing in early 2023. Every company is out to make a profit, sure, but AMD needs to build up their credibility through pricing like we see in the 7800xt, and their initial pricing hurt their credibility. I’m not expecting AMD to be the savior of this industries pricing, but users should be able to look at their GPU’s and believe they are paying for a premium product. I honestly don’t feel that way about AMD GPU’s, but I would love to be wrong.MY EXPERIENCE:I upgraded from a 1080ti. I play 5-10 hours a week on a 1440p 144hz monitor and my 1080ti was way past it’s prime. This 4070 SUPER can achieve 144fps+ on the games I play, without DLSS, on high - ultra settings. I don’t play the most demanding games, and probably won’t. I play things like: Darktide, Halo Infinite, BF2042, Dead space remake, and much older games.****I will say that DLSS really smooths out the frames for me in newer games, and I honestly appreciate turning it on quality in games I get 100+ FPS native. I have more issues with game server lag and my Xfinity internet than I do with DLSS and frame gen latency. But keep in mind that I have a small pool of games.****Anyways, my PC gaming experience over the last 10 years of tells me I have 3-4 years of great gaming FPS ahead on this GPU. I play the same games for 2-3 years anyways, so my hardware needs won’t go up for at least that long. There is also no such thing as future proofing, so I know I’m going to need a new GPU in less than 5 years if I want good performance on 1440p. I just ask myself “why spend more money than I need to, when I can buy something that will be good enough for what I need for the next 3-5 years”.Build Notes:This Asus dual is a compact size, and the cooler is surprisingly efficient. I push 242W on my overclock, and in my toughest stress tests reach 58-62 C. For my current build I paired the 4070S with a 13700KF on 32gb DDR5 and it’s great. I’m sure it could be paired with a 13600K or a 7700x and be just as good. The upgrade from the Pascal generation is very significant, and I’m pleased so far. Honestly ray tracing doesn’t blow me away…it depends on the game, but this card performs very well with RT enabled and DLSS/frame gen on. It OC’s very well and is quieter than my 3 fan EVGA 1080ti. My gaming temps @80% fan speed are around 58 F.If you’re considering buying the 4070 SUPER, I encourage you to be honest with yourself about what you need. Don’t just buy something because you can get up sold, buy it because it does what you need it to do and be content with that. In the words of Qui-Gon Jin “there is always a bigger fish”.Personally, I was torn on spending $800 on the TIE SUPER, but I decided against it because I can pay $600 to enjoy the games I play. I just can’t rationalize the purchase with Nvidia’s pricing this generation. I am married, I spend a lot of time on hobbies outside of my computer, and although $200 extra isn’t breaking the bank, it’s no compelling.My advice:I bought the top of the line card in 2018 for $756, and it was a great card for 4-5 years. Spend what you can comfortably spend, and be content with your purchase. The only person that cares about your PC is you. As PC enthusiasts we need to be comfortable with a 3-5 year GPU shelf life regardless of spending $1000 or $600 on a GPU.Cheers, good luck 👍🏼

The media could not be loaded. I have been considering buying a 4070 for the last few months, watching as the prices drop slightly. I considered a number of options, even the cheapest possible model but I read bad things about this dual fan design and I really wanted one that was well-built and has three fans. My Corsair 5000T case is huge and a shorter graphics card just looks weird in my case, whether or not the GPU die actually needs 3x fans to keep it cool or not. I also wanted RGB because my whole build has lots of color and my previous 6700XT just looked out of place with no RGB whatsoever.The Strix models are not known as being affordable, but they are the best looking cards on the market and ASUS doesn't cut corners or cheap out on the components or cooling. I owned a 3000 series Strix card and I really loved it and thought it looked amazing, so I figured I might as well grab one of these since the OC model was down to $20 lower than I had seen it before. And it was less than $50 more than the TUF card which I was considering buying.A lot of people seem to think that the Strix RTX 4070 is using the same cooler as the 4090 model, but it's actually not the same one. This is about 19mm shorter in length and about 8mm shorter in height (the width is the same size as the 4090, as that is a fixed dimension that can't be changed or it wouldn't be compatible with standard case sizes). I love unboxing the Strix cards and seeing what extras they give you, although it feels like less with the 4000 series than the 3000 series. They included a phone stand, a Strix branded velcro strip (only 1x though), the collector's trading card, and the GPU support stand that doubles as a screwdriver. Last generation they also included a cool ruler with electrical symbols you see on circuit diagrams, but I guess they didn't want to do that this time.So, when it comes to thermals, this thing is super cool, as you would expect with this giant cooler on a card with a 200 watt TDP. Although, the OC version of the Strix 4070 has an available 120% power budget for overclocking, whereas the TUF model only has 108% power available. This card is clocked at 2610MHz out of the box, but I see it go as high as 2880MHz, before making any manual adjustments to the clock speeds. I'm still playing around with what I can get away with in terms of overclocking, I know I can do +120MHz on the GPU core and 500MHz on the Memory and everything is still stable. This will show as right around 3000MHz on MSI overlay, with Memory sitting at 11,000MHz. This card seems to perform about 3-5% faster than a standard RTX 4070, at least at 1440p and my monitor's native resolution which is 3840x1600, this is an ultrawide 12:5 aspect ratio. It's kind of a halfway point between 1440p and 4k, with a total of 6.1 million pixels (75% of the pixel count of native 4k).When using Path Tracing in Alan Wake 2/Cyberpunk 2077, this card still doesn't go above 62 degrees and sometimes sits as low as 57 degrees, that's while drawing 210 to 220 watts using the factory OC of 2610MHz. When I am not running a game, the fans on this card don't even spin up. But when gaming, it's still inaudible, I mean it's so whisper quiet that I can't hear it even with my ceiling fan and air conditioner turned off in my bedroom. If you want a very well made, thermally overbuilt graphics card that looks amazing with a fair amount of RGB, then this is a good choice if you don't mind spending the extra money. It's still over $100 less than the cheapest 4070Ti models, although this could change if Nvidia drops some Super cards into the mix. They are rumored to be doing so in January at CES.Update: Now that the 4070 Super is available (with roughly 15-20% perf improvement), given that the Strix is one of the most expensive models, I don’t think this product is really a smart buy anymore. I wanted a new card and I don’t regret it because I’m happy with ~3080 level performance (with better RT perf). You can now get 3080Ti-3090 level performance for this same price (or less). Although the Strix models of 4070S will be more expensive than this is.