Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super review: More VRAM and bandwidth, slightly higher performance

Wrapping things up, we have both 1080p medium and 1080p ultra testing results for the RTX 4070 Ti Super. We'd generally say that anyone buying an $800 graphics card isn't likely to be looking at 1080p performance, unless they're into professional esports maybe, but 1080p is also the render resolution for Performance mode 4K upscaling.

We're not going to analyze the 1080p results as much as the higher resolutions, both because we feel they're less critical for a GPU of this caliber, and because CPU limitations become more of a factor. Of course, future CPUs could potentially move the needle, but we don't typically see the massive generational improvements in CPU architectures that we get on the GPU side of things — a 10% improvement is quite good, and 20% is about as much as you can hope for.

RTX 4070 Ti Super 1080p Overall Performance

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As you'd expect, the margins between most of the GPUs shrink at 1080p ultra compared 1440p ultra, and then shrink again when we look at 1080p medium. Overall, the 4070 Ti Super is only 6% faster than the vanilla 4070 Ti at ultra settings, and only 3% faster at medium settings. Similarly, it's 8% slower than the 4080 at ultra and 5% slower at medium.

That same shrinking of margins applies to AMD's GPUs as well. At 1080p the 4070 Ti Super now leads the 7900 XTX by 5%, for both ultra and medium settings, and it's 16% faster than the 7900 XT at ultra and 13% faster at medium.

If you have an older GPU and you only plan on gaming at 1080p, the diminishing returns aren't quite as bad. The new Super is still 34% faster than the RTX 3080 at 1080p ultra, though that shrinks to just 25% at medium settings. It's also 131% faster than the 2070 Super at ultra settings and still just over twice as fast at medium settings.

RTX 4070 Ti Super 1080p Rasterization Performance

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As evidenced by the overall numbers, margins have shrunk quite a bit for the rasterization test suite — several of the games are clearly hitting CPU bottlenecks. The 7900 XTX only leads Nvidia's new GPU by 5% at ultra settings, and they're basically tied (a 1% lead for AMD) at medium settings. The 4070 Ti Super is 5% faster than the 7900 XT at both ultra and medium.

Total War: Warhammer 3 continues to somewhat favor Nvidia's GPUs, but Horizon Zero Dawn actually shows the biggest swing: Where the 7900 XTX was faster at 1440p and 4K, the 4070 Ti Super is faster at 1080p — by double digit percentages. Overall, the new Nvidia GPU ranges from 9% slower to 15% faster than the 7900 XT at ultra settings, and 5% slower to 17% faster at medium settings.

Differences between the vanilla and Super variants of the 4070 Ti are all in the single digit percentages at 1080p, ranging from no real difference or even a slight advantage (Flight Simulator), to at most a 9% lead (Borderlands 3). The RTX 4080 meanwhile ranges from tied to as much as 12% faster (again, BL3).

RTX 4070 Ti Super 1080p Ray Tracing Performance

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Even at 1080p, ray tracing can still be pretty demanding, and so the margins are a bit better than in the rasterization tests. The 4070 Ti Super leads the vanilla model by 5% at medium and 7% at ultra, and trails the 4080 by 9% at medium and 11% at ultra.

Nvidia still holds on to a 15% (medium) and 20% (ultra) advantage over the 7900 XTX, but much of that comes courtesy of the fully path traced Minecraft, which gives Nvidia a 54% to 65% lead. Cyberpunk 2077 also favors the 4070 Ti Super by around 25%, Control shows a 15% lead, Bright Memory Infinite Benchmark drops to 10%, and Metro and Spider-Man are in the single digits — with medium settings actually favoring AMD by 6%.

Outside of more extreme levels of RT effects, then, AMD's GPUs generally handle 1080p quite a bit better. They're still generally slower than their Nvidia competition, but at least the 7900-series cards can manage very playable results.

RTX 4070 Ti Super 1080p Bonus Games

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Alan Wake 2 is still punishing, even at 1080p, if you're trying to use high settings. The 4070 Ti Super is just over twice as fast as the 7900 XTX. Drop to medium with low RT and suddenly it's not nearly so bad, with the 4070 Ti Super leading AMD's best by 'only' 33% — with both rendering at 720p and using Quality mode upscaling.

And we should note that the reflections in particular look clearly superior on Nvidia's GPUs, indicating AMD's hardware isn't quite doing the same calculations (we've seen this in some other games as well) — it's especially noticeable in motion. Whether that's a game bug, a driver bug, or an architectural difference, we couldn't say.

Avatar has no problem hitting high fps at 1080p (720p upscaled), with 145 fps at ultra settings and over 200 fps at medium settings. The 4070 Ti Super comes out ahead of the 7900 XTX in both cases, however, because Avatar uses ray tracing for shadows and reflections.

And lastly, The Last of Us favors AMD's GPUs at ultra settings, with the 4070 Ti Super coming in several fps below the 7900 XT, though AMD seems to hit a CPU limit of around 145 fps at medium settings while Nvidia's fastest GPUs continue to scale to around 165 fps.

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