Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Review: A Solid But Unspectacular 1440p Upgrade

Nvidia's Ada Lovelace roll-out continues, this time with the $599 RTX 4070, with a claimed RTX 3080-level of performance. Rich takes a look at 1440p performance, finding a card that is unspectacular vs Ampere 30-series cards but a solid enough upgrade for owners of 10-series and 20-series xx70 and xx80 GPUs. There's also Cyberpunk 2077 RT Overdrive testing - a hint of a glorious gaming future to come, where RTX 4070 performs admirably...

Note: At 16:45 there is an error. RTX 4070 with frame-gen gives a 3.7x boost over 2070, not 6x.

00:00 Introduction
00:29 RTX 3080 Perf Target + Next-Gen Aspirations
01:24 Founders Edition Physical Form Factor
01:58 Tech Specs... 'Cheaping Out' on Silicon?
03:16 Power Consumption + Efficiency
05:02 An Upgraded Test Platform + New Games
06:14 RTX 4070 vs Cyberpunk 2077 RT Overdrive
08:51 1440p Ray Tracing Benchmarks
15:25 1440p Reconstruction/Frame-Gen Benchmarks
18:44 1440p Rasterisation Benchmarks
26:51 Falling Short of RTX 3080 at 4K
28:12 And Now, The Conclusion

[kamikazilucas]

600 dollars is still way to much to spend on a card thats not even hitting 3080 levels, 12gb ram is good but it should be 500 or lower, infact this should honestly be the 4060 ti

[blackcaesar]

I remember when the $379 gtx 1070 launched as a SOLID AND SPECTACULAR 1440p upgrade.

[WickedRibbon]

RTX 3070: Matches or beats the previous flagship (RTX 2080 TI) for $500

RTX 4070: Matches or beats the previous sub-flagship (RTX 3080) for $600 😒

Nvidia is charging $100 extra for a lower tier of product.

[AG-bpll]

I will probably be sticking with my 3080 a long time with the way Nvidia is going.

[icehunter]

This would have been an amazing 4060 @350-380$, and based on specs, it looks it should have been that.

[solarisxd]

So ballpark 3080 performance for $100 less 2.5 years later? Assuming this is a trend Nvidia decides to keep with all their cards going forward I look forward to 4090 performance at $600 in 25 years. Worth waiting for..

[TekMerc]

I know he is being pragmatic realistically, but I always get the feeling Rich is being very careful not to upset nvidia in these reviews.

[walter_the_wobot]

No. The price is too high for a 12GB card in 2023. These price hikes are ridiculous.

[eraser]

Why no comparison to the 4070ti in the charts?

[PieStudios]

I’m just really disappointed in Nvidia at the moment. It’s clear they don’t care about their consumer base at all.

[LucidStrike]

Heads Up: The 6950 XT has hit $600 in the past several days, tho not officially.

[viktortheslickster]

The thing people need to bear in mind is that while the rtx 3080 and rtx 4070 are very similar in terms of compute performance (both around 29 TFLOPS FP32), the memory bandwidth of the rtx 4070 is only 66% of the 3080. It makes a big difference at higher resolutions...

[gnoclaude]

As a 4060 for $299 it's pretty dope. As a 4070 for $600 GTFO.

[chalpua]

I don’t understand. It’s a terrible product. 3080 performance for $100 cheaper 3 years later.

Nvidia and AMD sucks so bad this generation.

[zmb]

Next generation: introducing the new rtx 5060! At 1000 dollars. A great 1440p 60 fps experience.

[OptimumSlinky]

I love how Richard instantly dismisses the RX 6800 XT and 6900 XT (which are both around $600 in the US right now) as valid upgrades for those with Pascal cards in his conclusion, despite the 6800 XT having more VRAM, and 10-15% better raster performance than the 4070, and RTX consistently remaining a meme on anything under a 4090.

[parasolo]

Too pricy for the performance you get.

[johnwakefield]

The friendliest review of a 4070 you will see anywhere, wonder why ??

[magicmajk]

In Real World its should be like this;
4090 = 4090
4080=4080
4070ti=4070
4070=4060ti
NV.. you greedy.. AI company...

[omarcomming]

So 3080 performance for 3080 price 2, 5 years later 🤡