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4K — particularly with upscaling (from 1440p) — also represents a reasonable target for any graphics card that costs $800 or more. What does the PNY Verto OC provide that the Asus TUF Gaming doesn't? Mostly RGB lighting, but let's look at the 4K performance.
The results pretty much match what we saw at 1440p, with the PNY card leading the Asus card by 2.2% overall. That doesn't change any of the overall rankings, at least not in any meaningful way. The 7900 XTX just edges past the PNY card, with a decently large 16.9% lead in the rasterization suite overcoming the 17.1% deficit in the DXR suite — but there are more rasterization than DXR games, so overall AMD still comes out on top.
Getting back to the two 4070 Ti Super cards, PNY increases its lead just slightly at 4K, ranging from 0.8% to 3.9% faster in the 15 individual games. Curiously, the biggest lead was in Flight Simulator, which is normally more CPU limited. Looking into the details, it seems both cards were at the TGP limit, but the PNY card was running 5C cooler and that allowed it to average 100 MHz higher on its clocks — 4% higher than the Asus card's clocks. We'll get into this more on page five, but cooling certainly looks to be a strong point on the PNY Verto OC.
One thing that's clear from our 4K test suite is that ray tracing at native 4K proves to be too much for the 4070 Ti Super. Games that aren't quite as demanding, like Spider-Man, can get close to 60 fps, but Bright Memory Infinite (Benchmark) and Cyberpunk 2077 would need upscaling and possibly frame generation to crack 60 fps. The standalone benchmark for BMI doesn't have DLSS 3 support, but the main game does, if you're wondering — and the main game is far less taxing than the impressive looking tech demo.
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