OcUK RTX4070 review thread

[Darren_uk]

Got the 'Zotac GeForce RTX 4070 Twin Edge OC 12GB' delivered today £589,
This card is great for my ITX/MATX Montech sky one case, length is one of the smallest of the 4070s coming in at 225.5 mm or 25.5cm,
The back plate is metal, Idle 30/33c, Heaven benchmark 4.0 66/68c, Its a 2 slot card with 4 heat pipes,
Very impressed on the power consumption around 180w under load & will save me money on the energy bill coming from 250w + on my old 6800 card
& with 34% better performance & the price cost less than what I paid for the AMD Radeon 6800 at launch £599 Order Date: 19.11.2020
But still be nice to the 4070s come down to around £499.
Card as fan stop on idle & low spin under load, can adjust in firestorm software from AUTO to Manual fan curve & set the RGB ZOTAC LOGO.
Also comes with 5 years warranty.

 

[JediFragger]

Bit nuts not to get a white card with that setup @Darren_uk don't ya think? All that white gear carefully crafted and the Zotac sticks out like a sore thumb!! But if you're happy then that's what counts

 

[Darren_uk]

Bit nuts not to get a white card with that setup @Darren_uk don't ya think? All that white gear carefully crafted and the Zotac sticks out like a sore thumb!! But if you're happy then that's what counts

Zotac have no white version of this, well at the moment anyhow, I was going to go for the Inno3D GeForce RTX 4070 Twin X2 OC White

The price put me off & also see no fan stop idle & controls to change the fans speed & start up​

Zotac 4070 range so far

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From award winning designs to delivering powerful performance, the ZOTAC GAMING GeForce® graphics cards give rise to amplified performance.

www.zotac.com

 

[Darren_uk]

Anyhow its a improvement over the radeon 6800 that really did stick out like a sore thumb!! all that red.

 

[RatmanGB]

Got the 'Zotac GeForce RTX 4070 Twin Edge OC 12GB' delivered today £589,
This card is great for my ITX/MATX Montech sky one case, length is one of the smallest of the 4070s coming in at 225.5 mm or 25.5cm,
The back plate is metal, Idle 30/33c, Heaven benchmark 4.0 66/68c, Its a 2 slot card with 4 heat pipes,
Very impressed on the power consumption around 180w under load & will save me money on the energy bill coming from 250w + on my old 6800 card
& with 34% better performance & the price cost less than what I paid for the AMD Radeon 6800 at launch £599 Order Date: 19.11.2020
Card as fan stop on idle & low spin under load, can adjust in firestorm software from AUTO to Manual fan curve & set the RGB ZOTAC LOGO.
Also comes with 5 years warranty.

Can I ask if you get any coil whine on the Zotac?

Thanks.

 

[Szydero]

Bit nuts not to get a white card with that setup @Darren_uk don't ya think? All that white gear carefully crafted and the Zotac sticks out like a sore thumb!! But if you're happy then that's what counts

There will a white version of Zotac card, but still haven't been released. I know from my own source

 

[humbug]

It would have almost zero impact, since Ebay prices are in a world of their own. 3080s and 3080 Tis are still going for £500-700 on there, and that's looking at sold ones since the 4070 came out, not fanciful BIN listings. A 3080 FE sold for £635 earlier. The most recent sale was a 3080 with a busted DisplayPort, and even that fetched £493.

Most people who use that site seem to be either certifiable or thick. Or a scammer of course.

The used market is nuts, one large high-street pawnbroker cain is selling used RX 6800XT's for £500 to £600, the same price you can find them here, brand new.

Whats more they list how much they buy them for, a £550 RX 6800XT they pay £300 for it, a nice £250 profit.

 

[Purgatory]

The used market is nuts, one large high-street pawnbroker cain is selling used RX 6800XT's for £500 to £600, the same price you can find them here, brand new.

Whats more they list how much they buy them for, a £550 RX 6800XT they pay £300 for it, a nice £250 profit.

Yes scammers-R-us as I call them... Over the Covid period they got even worse and really scammed a lot of people from the shortage of consoles to gpus... Even the people that thought they were scamming them with the inflated prices they were buying at were scammed because they sold them all later for a lot more... So all the people that thought they won the lottery getting an FE and selling it to them were basically still being ripped off..

Anyways the only time I sell anything to them is when I can't be bothered to post things out or advertise them elsewhere or here and normally stuff I know most here are not interested in or delicate items like monitors and even then it's a pretty old monitor at that point and not worth the risk of posting unless the buyer understands the risks and arranges their own delivery.

Even when I sell anything to them I don't normally ask for cash price as they are silly and take the trade price and grab a few things like blurays or console games I don't have. I don't really buy anything else from them as I had a few bad electronic things from them or turn out to be fakes (memory storage cards as a good example they conned me on once).. So I avoid the electronics and play safe with software and movies.

 

[MegaPinches]

I am, thanks for clarifying!!! I'd prob go for the Windforce OC then.

edit - 216W PL vs the 220W of the FE, not too bad.

Just a heads up the power limit slider on the Gigabyte doesn't work (will go to 108% but does nothing), you can slide it but will still hit PWR performance cap at 200w regardless and won't go over not matter what I try. I'm not sure if this is Bios issue or afterburner issue, but it doesn't work, shame because the card has loads more to give with a UV/OC but by the time you start using 1.05v you hit the limit and can't go no further. Ive emailed gigabyte to find out what is the issue.

I prob would have bought the Asus Dual had I known and had bigger quieter fans since the triple isn't needed now.

Saying that got some very nice UV results with this card that out perform stock at lower temp/pwr, quite impressed by it.

 

[JediFragger]

Just a heads up the power limit slider on the Gigabyte doesn't work (will go to 108% but does nothing), you can slide it but will still hit PWR performance cap at 200w regardless and won't go over not matter what I try. I'm not sure if this is Bios issue or afterburner issue, but it doesn't work, shame because the card has loads more to give with a UV/OC but by the time you start using 1.05v you hit the limit and can't go no further. Ive emailed gigabyte to find out what is the issue.

I prob would have bought the Asus Dual had I known and had bigger quieter fans since the triple isn't needed now.

Damn, hopefully it's just a s/w issue.

 

[Jono8]

Just a heads up the power limit slider on the Gigabyte doesn't work (will go to 108% but does nothing), you can slide it but will still hit PWR performance cap at 200w regardless and won't go over not matter what I try. I'm not sure if this is Bios issue or afterburner issue, but it doesn't work, shame because the card has loads more to give with a UV/OC but by the time you start using 1.05v you hit the limit and can't go no further. Ive emailed gigabyte to find out what is the issue.

I prob would have bought the Asus Dual had I known and had bigger quieter fans since the triple isn't needed now.

Saying that got some very nice UV results with this card that out perform stock at lower temp/pwr, quite impressed by it.

Does the Asus dual definitely have a higher power limit?

 

[MegaPinches]

Does the Asus dual definitely have a higher power limit?

I know it appears in afterburner but don't know if it works (its +8% again). I THINK these two are the only 8pin cards that have extra PL, all the others ive seen don't have it. Just need that little bit of extra power as they got the headroom, mine will bounce off 3000mhz with +210 OC but I want to do a UV/OC around that speed but its not possible with only 200w.

The Kitguru review notes that the gigabyte doesnt pull over 200w even with slider open and overclocked but he makes it sound like its a feature but clearly its not working properly.

 

[Firegod]

Got the 'Zotac GeForce RTX 4070 Twin Edge OC 12GB' delivered today £589,
Very impressed on the power consumption around 180w under load & will save me money on the energy bill coming from 250w + on my old 6800 card

Can't really use that as a valid reason, hear me out, but everyone knows the 67xx/68xx/69xx series loves an undervolt. Here is my 6900XT which needs 3x PSU cables and ASRock recommends a 1kW PSU. Tom's hardware noted it used over 350w. This is mine with an undervolt.

Just saying you could have achieved this with your 6800 if you wanted. So I have a 6900XT using 20w more juice which actually makes it the same as the founders edition 4070 according to GN review. Tis' all. Enjoy the new card.

 

[Alt0153]

how long to "save" the £589 cost of the card when using 70w less per gaming hour?

 

[Cern]

how long to "save" the £589 cost of the card when using 70w less per gaming hour?

At current UK price cap (£0.34 per Kwh) 70W is going to cost approx 2.3p per hour.

Doesn't sound a lot, but if you game (or push the GPU hard for other purposes) for around 42 hours in a week, that's £1 a week. So it does add up, albeit slowly.

 

[Lightnix]

how long to "save" the £589 cost of the card when using 70w less per gaming hour?

If the calculator I've used is right about 49,000 hours at current electricity tariffs.

Edit: it's not right

More like 25000 hours.

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Did someone actually a ditch an RX6800 16GB for just 12% to 16% extra performance and 4GB less of VRAM:

https://tpucdn.com/review/nvidia-geforce-rtx-4070-founders-edition/images/relative-performance-2560-1440.png

Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Review

Nvidia's GeForce RTX 4070 release has been highly anticipated for its potential of bringing the newer generation to a new low price point and we're happy to...

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Also just to save 34W to 39W of power:

https://tpucdn.com/review/nvidia-geforce-rtx-4070-founders-edition/images/power-gaming.png

https://tpucdn.com/review/nvidia-geforce-rtx-4070-founders-edition/images/power-maximum.png

Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Review

Nvidia's GeForce RTX 4070 release has been highly anticipated for its potential of bringing the newer generation to a new low price point and we're happy to...

www.techspot.com

A slight undervolt would have gotten it to similar power.

The PC dGPU market is doomed!

 

[Alt0153]

At current UK price cap (£0.34 per Kwh) 70W is going to cost approx 2.3p per hour.

Doesn't sound a lot, but if you game (or push the GPU hard for other purposes) for around 42 hours in a week, that's £1 a week. So it does add up, albeit slowly.

nice roi

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

so 10 years+ roi at current rates, great save

Its worse as the difference is more like 30W~40W comparing reference models. So even if the model is not reference,it most likely was overvolted a bit.Hence a slight undervolt and drop back to reference clocks would have split the difference.

Edit!!

Undervolted AMD RX 6800 with 183 W TGP offers clues about an upcoming RX 6800M laptop-grade GPU matching the desktop RTX 2080 Ti

The RX 6800 GPU particularly efficient when it comes to undervolting, as its TGP can be reduced by 45 W down to 183 W. These figures are already laptop-friendly if we look at Nvidia's RTX 2080 Super mobility GPUs, so we can expect to see an RX 6800M GPU with 150-180W TGPs that matches the...

www.notebookcheck.net

Now, the RX 6800 is much more efficient when it comes to undervolting. The voltages could be lowered from 1.025 to 0.9 V, and this also allowed for a small fps boost across the board, yet the TGP could be lowered by 45 W down to around 183 W.

The RX6800 was the most efficient dGPU of the last generation.

 

[SpudMaster]

Can't really use that as a valid reason, hear me out, but everyone knows the 67xx/68xx/69xx series loves an undervolt. Here is my 6900XT which needs 3x PSU cables and ASRock recommends a 1kW PSU. Tom's hardware noted it used over 350w. This is mine with an undervolt.

Just saying you could have achieved this with your 6800 if you wanted. So I have a 6900XT using 20w more juice which actually makes it the same as the founders edition 4070 according to GN review. Tis' all. Enjoy the new card.

An extra 20w seems a fair trade for 4GB more VRAM. Do you get same performance as stock the these settings?