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If the only thing you care about when it comes to choosing a graphics card is the raw performance, the advice is simple: Buy the cheapest card you can find that has the GPU you want. Nvidia's RTX 4070 Ti Super is a good choice overall, and whether you get a card from PNY, Asus, MSI, Gigabyte, Zotac, or some other vendor, it should deliver very nearly the same level of performance as the cards we've tested — give or take a few percent. But there's more to picking a graphics card than pure performance for a lot of gamers.
Objectively, cooling performance, noise levels, and efficiency are measurable characteristics where the PNY Verto OC excels. We've only tested two different 4070 Ti Super cards at present, and some of the other options might match or even beat the PNY, but all indications are that it's a great option if you value lower GPU temperatures, reduced noise levels, and a slightly lower power draw.
Subjectively, appearance is also a big factor for a lot of people. We've provided images and will leave opinions on how the card looks mostly up to potential buyers, but it's a decent looking traditional triple-fan design in our book. It doesn't try anything radically different from other graphics cards, so there are no swooping curves or wild color schemes, and that should be fine for a lot of people.
PNY has been around a long time in the graphics card market, though much of that time was spent primarily as a provider of Nvidia reference designs. It's shifted away from that in recent years, with more of an emphasis on creating competitive enthusiast designs. The Epic-X RGB Verto OC isn't at the same hardware tier as Asus Strix or MSI Suprim offerings, but it's priced more competitively and provides everything most people could want.
The bigger issue it faces is that first people need to be in the market for a high-end graphics card, and not already have taken the plunge with an RTX 4080, RTX 4070 Ti, RX 7900 XTX, or RX 7900 XT. It's also $50 extra for things like RGB lighting and extra cooling capabilities that aren't strictly necessary.
Fundamentally, the Nvidia RTX 4070 Ti Super represents a move in the right direction as far as price and performance go, compared to the existing RTX 4080 and RTX 4070 Ti, but that doesn't mean the GPU actually gets to where most people would like to see it: below $700. It probably never will before it gets superseded by a next generation part.
The PNY RTX 4070 Ti Super Epic-X RGB certainly warrants consideration if you're in the market for a high-end GPU. It can compete with AMD's best, with the usual caveats that it's comparatively slower in rasterization and much faster in ray tracing. It's also one of the coolest running high-end GPUs of recent memory. It doesn't break new ground, but it didn't need to.
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