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Wrapping things up, we have both 1080p medium and 1080p ultra testing results. Medium isn't necessarily an important consideration, and 1080p in general isn't really where we think most gamers spending this much for a GPU are going to play. Still, we ran the benchmarks so here are the charts.
Because 1080p gaming puts the bottleneck more on the CPU than the GPU, particularly with high-end cards like the 4070 Ti Super, the relative margins all shrink a bit. The PNY card ends up being 1.5% faster than the Asus card at 1080p ultra, and only 1.2% faster at 1080p medium — again, not something you'd notice or feel in gaming, even if it's technically visible in our benchmarks.
Several games are completely CPU limited now, like Far Cry 6, Flight Simulator, Horizon Zero Dawn, and even Spider-Man: Miles Morales and Watch Dogs Legion. That gives us a range of -0.4% slower to 3.0% faster at 1080p, with the usual ~0.5% margin of error. If we only look at 1080p medium, several more games become effectively CPU limited, which you can see by the overall rasterization chart where the top five GPUs are only separated by 4%.
Running all of these benchmarks on these GPUs might seem a bit pointless. A quick look at the specs tells most of what we find in the charts. But there's a method to the madness, because we also want the data on power use, clock speeds, and temperatures that we cover on the next page.
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