NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER GPU Upgraded With 20% More Cores For $599, Faster Than An RTX 3090

08.01.2024 - 17:02 / wccftech.com / Ada Lovelace

NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER brings flagship gaming performance down to a $599 US price point with all the Ada Lovelace goodness.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER GPU will be the first to hit retail shelves in a few weeks and it is going to be a gamer delight, offering the performance of a last-gen BFGPU such as the RTX 3090 at a price point of just $599 US. The graphics card is touted as a 1440p gamers paradise, hitting the right perf/$ mark and even flexing up to 4K gaming by leveraging NVIDIA's DLSS 3 technologies.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER will feature AD104-350 or AD103-175 GPU (PG141 SKU 335) configurations with the same 7,168 cores across both variants. The GPU is expected to get 36 MB of L2 cache. The card will stick with the 12 GB GDDR6X memory across the same 192-bit bus interface. For the RTX 4070 SUPER, the card will have a 20W higher TBP than the existing 4070 at 220W.

The card offers 36 Shader TFLOPs, 82 RT TFLOPs, and 568 AI TOPs while supporting all the latest NV encode technologies such as AV1 and H.264. All of these combined put the RTX 4070 within 95% of the performance of the 4070 Ti.

In terms of gaming performance, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER is said to be around 15% faster than the RTX 4070 Non-SUPER, marking the biggest uplifts in the SUPER lineup. The card is also stated to be faster than an RTX 3090 without frame-generation though the performance is going to vary on a game-to-game basis. NVIDIA also confirms that the card is just 5% slower than an RTX 4070 Ti which retailed for $799 US. That too has been replaced by the RTX 4070 Ti SUPER.

AI is a major talking point for the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER and the RTX 40 SUPER series in general, delivering up to 2x faster performance with DLSS 3.5, 70% faster image generation & 50% faster video generation speeds using ML optimizations through the Tensor-RT and Tensor-RT LLM stack that has been available on Windows and is being updated on the go.

The card will be challenging the AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE and RX 7800 XT. The GRE retails for $649 US while the 7800 XT retails for $499 US. Having 4070 Ti or 3090-class performance at $599 US is a very aggressive approach by NVIDIA and one that should definitely be appreciated by gamers. At the same time, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 will continue to live on with a $549 US price tag but at this point, it is better to go for the new SUPER variant.

Another talking point for the NVIDIA GeForce RT 40 SUPER GPUs such as the RTX 4070 SUPER is its class-leading performance efficiency. While the GPU is rated at 220W, the actual gaming wattage is around 200W on average which is less than half the TGP of the RTX 4090 and much lower than what the Radeon RX 7900 series consumes. Even the