The RTX 4070 is one of the best graphics cards you can buy right now, but the space it occupies is heavily contested by other GPUs from AMD and Nvidia itself.
Nvidia’s RTX 4070 is one of the best graphics cards you can buy, make no mistake about that. Some recent price drops, combined with excellent 1440p performance and features like DLSS 3.5, make it the go-to GPU for a high-end gaming experience in 2024. There are several other GPUs to keep in mind around this price, however.
Get your weekly teardown of the tech behind PC gaming Check your inbox! Privacy Policy Although there’s a 20% bump in core count, there isn’t a 20% bump in performance. Overall, we found that this GPU is around 10% faster than the base model in our RTX 4070 Super review. There are some titles where it’s much faster, such as Returnal, where we saw a 20% jump. In other games, such as Cyberpunk 2077, the Super model barely moves the needle.
That performance gap includes ray tracing, which is an area where AMD graphics cards typically compromise. That’s not the case here. Although the RX 7900 GRE is behind in demanding ray tracing games like Cyberpunk 2077, it’s actually a bit faster in lighter ray tracing workloads like Returnal and Resident Evil 4.
Nvidia RTX 4070 Ti Normally, the RTX 4070 Ti would be out of the question if you were interested in the base RTX 4070. The Ti model comes in at $800 normally, so it’s in an entirely different class of GPU. However, the release of the RTX 4070 Ti Super has pushed the price of the base model down significantly, and you can find it for under $700.
AMD RX 6950 XT AMD’s last-gen RX 6950 XT comes in at the same price as the RTX 4070 at $550. It’s a monster GPU by last-gen standards, able to deliver 60 fps and often higher in demanding games at 4K. Due to it being a last-gen card, you can find the RX 6950 XT for much cheaper than its original launch price, placing it in direct competition with the RTX 4070.
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