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The better late than never OcUK RTX4070 Super review thread!

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My main takeaway from the RTX 4070 Super, and you could kind of see if from the predicted performance on Techpower's spec database, is basically the same as Techspot's:

"we can't help but feel this is what the RTX 4070 should have been from the start: at least 20% faster".
From this review:
https://www.techspot.com/review/2791-nvidia-geforce-rtx-4070-super/

The RTX 4070 was really quite underwhelming in my view, at least compared to GPUs like the RTX 3080. And it wasn't much cheaper either.

Lots of the best AD104 GPU dies went into mobile RTX 4080 GPUs, and the RTX 4070 TI...

There were lots of tech journalists spreading incorrect information about the specs of the RTX 4070, but I suppose that's typical these days.

Still, you can thank AMD for delivering some competition with GPUs like the cheaper RX 7800 XT... Now Nvidia has a reasonable competing product, but we are ~10 months away from new RDNA4 cards...
 
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One comparison that hasn't been made for some reason, is that the RTX 4070 Super seems to be about on par with the RTX 3080 TI and RTX 3090. But with less VRAM than the RTX 3090, so you're getting a GPU that's cheaper than the RTX 3080 TI and about as fast.

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One comparison that hasn't been made for some reason, is that the RTX 4070 Super seems to be about on par with the RTX 3080 TI and RTX 3090. But with less VRAM than the RTX 3090, so you're getting a GPU that's cheaper than the RTX 3080 TI and about as fast.

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You may want to use the right average frame rate charts not the ones that are minimums average at 1080p of all resolutions.




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Not sure the averages are all that relevent to most people. The minimum FPS at 4K is here though:

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Seems like the performance would be on par with the RTX 3080 TI, same VRAM amount as well. And you get support for Nvidia's frame generation.
 
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Interesting, when comparing my 3060ti FE that was £375 in 2021, the 4070 Super is about 66% faster.

Adjusting for inflation, my 3060ti would cost £442 in today's money, meaning a same bang-for-buck increase in price would be £733.

The 3060ti has generally been considered one of the best bang-for-buck cards of the last few years, so the fact that a 4070 Super can be had around the £600 mark actually seems like an ok deal?

Or am I hitting that copium too hard? :D
 
I think a decent price for the RTX 4070 Super would be £500. I doubt we will see it go that low though, it would be putting a lot of pressure on the RX 7800 XT at that price.

Nvidia is still producing RTX 4070s, I think these will be the GPU sold at £500.

Did the last generation of Super cards ever get a price cut?
 
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That video isn't very good. They cherry picked a few games where the 3080 TI doesn't show much improvement over the 3080. But on average, it's clearly faster, and was close to the 3090.

The obvious downside to the 3080 TI was the launch price - only used cards were ever worth considering in my view.

He was also quite wrong to say the extra 2GB wouldn't make any difference with the RTX 3080 TI. Lots of games run out of VRAM on cards like the RTX3080, at higher resolutions.
 
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