NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER will compete with the Radeon RX 7800 XT, which is directly aimed at the 1440P+ segment with 16 GB video memory. The RTX 4070 SUPER upgrade is designed to bring performance closer to the RTX 4070 Ti, but at a price that remains highly competitive with the competition.
The video card will be available in AD104-350 or AD103-175 SKU configurations (PG141 SKU 335) with the same 7168 cores in both variants. The GPU is expected to have 48MB of L2 cache. It looks like this card will handle 12GB of GDDR6X memory via the same 192-bit bus interface. The RTX 4070 SUPER has a 20W higher TBP than the existing 4070 at 220W.
In terms of performance, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER should be around 14% faster than the RTX 4070. The video card will also receive a new CEM 5.1 Gen5 power connector. Existing RTX 4070 graphics cards come with either an 8-pin or 12-pin power connector (supplied with an adapter).
In terms of performance, the GPU scored 195,384 in OpenCL benchmarks and 219,237 in CUDA benchmarks on Geekbench. In terms of OpenCL performance, the card is ahead of the RX 7900 XTX and -5.5% slower than the RTX 4070 Ti. When compared to CUDA, the GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER delivers 98% of the performance of the RTX 4070 Ti, which is very impressive, but these are just synthetic benchmarks and actual gaming performance may vary.
Compared to the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070, the SUPER variant ultimately delivers a 15% performance boost in OpenCL and an 18% performance boost in CUDA benchmarks.
However, achieving the performance of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti at a lower price will mean that the RTX 4070 SUPER can kill two birds with one stone. The RX 7800 XT and RX 7900 GRE are recent launches from AMD that have performed well in the retail market, but the cheaper RTX 4070 SUPER with the performance of the 4070 Ti could be a surprise seller.
The card is expected to be unveiled next week at CES 2024.
