NVIDIA RTX 4070 Ti SUPER Closes Gap with RTX 4080 in Latest Benchmarks

Benchmarks of NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 4070 TI SUPER GPU have been revealed, and it is roughly as fast as an RTX 4080.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER GPU Benchmarks Leak

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER GPU, priced at $799 in the United States, will target the 1440p+ gaming masses. The graphics card has an improved specification sheet that includes additional cores and memory under the same TDP. The card competes with AMD's Radeon RX 7900 XT, which has already received a $100 US official price decrease ahead of the debut of the 4070 Ti SUPER.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER GPU Specifications

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER will be available in two GPU SKUs: AD103-275 and AD102-175 (PG141 SKU 323), both with 8,448 cores and 48 MB of L2 cache. The graphics card will also have 16 GB of GDDR6X memory, which is a 4 GB VRAM improvement over the RTX 4070 Ti Non-SUPER, and a 256-bit bus interface. The graphics card will retain its 285 Watt TGP, which is the same as the Non-SUPER model, as per WCCFTech.

The card has 44 Shader TFLOPs, 102 RT TFLOPs, and 706 AI TOPs and supports all of the newest NV encoding methods, including AV1 and H.264. All of these factors together give the RTX 4070 Ti within 90% of the performance of the original RTX 4080, and it effectively replaces the RTX 4070 Ti, which had the same MSRP.

The graphics card tested was running at 2640 MHz, which is 30 MHz higher than the reference clock of 2610 MHz, indicating that we are looking at a factory OC card; nonetheless, such tiny overclocks will not result in a significant change in performance because the base variations have already reached their max clock rates. SUPER cards can make a difference if their power constraints are correctly used and if the VRAM is overclocked to overcome some of their bottlenecks.

In terms of performance, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER earned a good 229,043 points in the OpenCL benchmark, placing it 10% ahead of the RTX 4070 Ti Non-SUPER and only 6% behind the RTX 4080 Non-SUPER. Factory overclocked models should improve performance by another 1-2%, bringing it within 96% of the RTX 4080 Non-SUPER.

This is wonderful news for gamers because the 4080 Non-SUPER was previously priced at $1199 US, and this performance can now be obtained for only $799 US, which is another reason AMD decided to reduce the price of their second-best gaming GPU.

In the Vulkan tests, we got two quite different results. The first one is approximately 10% quicker than the RTX 4070 Ti Non-SUPER, while the second is 26% faster and even outperforms the RTX 4080 Non-SUPER. It is probable that the second score is based on a highly overclocked GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER GPU, whilst the first is based on stock performance.

This is only a synthetic benchmark, and gaming performance may change greatly from these results since the RTX 4070 SUPER was also shown to be well behind the RTX 4070 Ti SUPER but ended up matching it across a wide range of titles. So we may expect the RTX 4070 Ti SUPER to be much more similar to the RTX 4080 Non-SUPER at launch.

This is simply a synthetic benchmark, and gaming performance may differ significantly from these findings, since the RTX 4070 SUPER was initially found to be far behind the RTX 4070 Ti SUPER but eventually matched it across a wide range of titles. So we may expect the RTX 4070 Ti SUPER to be much more similar to the RTX 4080 Non-SUPER at launch.

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