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It was one of the worst-kept secrets leading up to CES; Nvidia is set to release super versions of various models in its RTX 40 series. The company chose to announce the cards at the same time at the Las Vegas show, but actually unveil them on a weekly basis. Additionally, the RTX 4070 Super has the honor of ushering in this wave of super cards; The card is scheduled to be available in stores from January 17th. One day earlier we were able to publish the successes of the Founders Edition. In this way, Nvidia spreads its press moments even further.
The number of variants in the RTX 40 series is nine with the new super cards, or ten if you include a version of the 4090 that was only released for the Chinese market. To make things a little clearer, Nvidia has decided to do away with the regular RTX 4080 variant. If supplies run out, the 4080 Super will be the only card in this segment. The regular 4070 Ti without Super is also being phased out in favor of the 4070 Ti Super. The regular RTX 4070 therefore remains on the market and the RTX 4070 Super has to sit between the 4070 and the 4070 Ti.
RTX 4060 RTX 4060 Ti RTX 4070 RTX 4070 Super RTX 4070 Ti Introduction June 2023 May 2023 April 2023 January 2024 January 2023 Price Dollar $299 $399 $599 $599 $799 Price Euro 329 Euro 449 Euro 669 Euro 669 Euro 910 Euro CU DA – cores 3072 4352 5888 7168 7680 Tensor cores 96 136 184 224 240 RT cores 24 34 46 56 60 ROPs 32 48 64 80 80 Texture units 96 136 184 224 240 Chip AD107-400 AD 106- 351-A1 AD104-250-A1 AD104- 350- A1 AD104-400-A1 Vram 8GB 8GB 12GB 12GB 12GB Memory Bandwidth 272GB/s 288GB/s 504.2GB/s 504.2GB/s 504.2GB/s Memory Bus 128bit 128bit 192 Bit 192 Bit 192 Bit Vram Type GDDR 6GDDR6 GDDR6X GDDR6X GDDR6X TDP 115W 160W 200W 220W 285W
The 4070, 4070 Super and 4070 Ti are all based on an AD104 chip, but are equipped with more or less activated CUDA cores. Like the 4080 cards, the 4070 Ti Super is based on the AD103 chip and could almost be called a 4080 Light. We’ll have to ignore the 4070 Ti Super and 4080 Super for a while. As soon as the respective embargoes expire, we will of course place all new super cards side by side and next to their competitors. In this review we’ll focus on the 4070 Super. The Supers are basically the same cards as the other Ada Lovelace cards in the RTX 40 series, but with a different number of cores activated. You can read all about the Ada Lovelace architecture in the RTX 4090 launch review.
The RTX 4070 Super has a recommended retail price of $599, but in Europe we will have to pay 669 euros. If that sounds familiar, it’s because the regular RTX 4070 received the same suggested retail price in April of last year. According to Nvidia, this card would be discounted with the introduction of the Super. With the 4070 Super you get an AD104 card, but with significantly more enabled elements than with the regular 4070. The number of streaming multiprocessors in the AD104-350 has been increased from 46 to 56. This means the 4070 Super has 7168 CUDA cores. That is 1280 or almost 22 percent more than in the AD104-250 of the RTX 4070. The memory bus and the speed have remained the same, as has the amount of memory, so that the bandwidth is also unchanged at 504GB/s over a 192bit bus. The clock speed of the GPU has not changed significantly. The base clock has become slightly higher at 1980 MHz, but the game clock remains the same at 2475 MHz.
On paper, the RTX 4070 Super is a significantly faster card than the regular RTX 4070, at the same price. It remains to be seen how many tickets are actually for sale at the recommended price of 669 euros and whether people want to buy them. It could be that the manufacturers save on almost everything in order to play into the hands of the OC models. We currently cannot (and are not allowed to) do this comparison of AIC cards, so we will focus on the Founders Edition for now. We compared the RTX 4070 Super with Nvidia’s own cards and AMD’s competing models.
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