Founders Edition and Zotac Also Tackle the RTX 4070 Super

Today we can finally see the real performance of the RTX 4070 Super, unlike what NVIDIA let us see in their slides. The card uses the same AD104 chip as the non-Super RTX 4070, but has 20% more CUDA cores, 10 more RT cores, 12 MB more L2 cache, 40 more Tensor cores, and slight increases in ROP, TMU and frequencies. This also sees a 10% increase in power consumption and don’t forget you’ll want at least a 650W PSU that supports 12VHPWR.

As you’d hope, the RTX 4070 Super outperforms the non-Super version, especially in radiant benchmarks, and when you add DLSS it outperforms by a larger margin. As far as AMD is concerned, the RX 7800XT now has competition, as the RTX 4070 Super outperforms it across the board, unlike the non-Super version. The price is also decent as far as releases go today, the RTX 4070 starts at around $550 right now, while the RX 7800 XT can be yours for around $520. The $600 MSRP of the new Founders Edition seems reasonable if you’re in love with ray tracing, otherwise it’s hard to justify spending the extra over the RX 7800 XT.

Today we also get to see what third-party vendors can do with the new GPU, as well as how much longer they can make the name. FPS review compares it Zotac RTX 4070 SUPER Trinity Black Edition in NVIDIA’s Founders Edition here. They took advantage of IceStorm 2.0 and the FireStorm Utility to overclock the card, increasing the power as high as it would go. This resulted in a 10% overclock in clock speed, 14% in memory and this pushed the Zotac card even further than the Founders Edition.

The benchmarks also reveal something interesting in both The FPS Review and Sebastian’s tests, even without overclocking, the Zotac Edition outperforms the Founders Edition. This suggests that if you’re on the fence about picking up an RTX 4070 Super, you should definitely check out the other vendors below. At stock speeds, third party cards are better value… at $600 anyway.