Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Super

Delivering more bang for the same bucks, Nvidia's GeForce RTX 4070 Super is a major step up from the RTX 4070, with particularly excellent ray-tracing performance.

The GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER Founders Edition is an efficient 1440p powerhouse, faster than the GeForce RTX 3090 while consuming 40% less power. And with DLSS and Frame Generation seemingly everywhere, the RTX 4070 SUPER is a great 4K card, too. The all-black Founders Edition is stunning!

While we tried to show an array of compute, rendering, encoding, graphics, and gaming workloads in our testing, NVIDIA offers a ton of additional functionality with the GeForce RTX 40 series that must be considered as well. From RTX Video Super Resolution, to AV1 encoding, to AI-accelerated tools for various content creation applications, NVIDIA Broadcast, and others, GeForce RTX 40 series cards aren’t just for gaming.

The GeForce RTX 4070 Super is a great graphics card for gaming at 1080p and 1440p, particularly for those who prefer to play with ray tracing enabled. Its rasterization and memory bandwidth shortfalls can be addressed through DLSS 3, but it can’t quite cope with 4K gaming. If your budget can stretch to its $599 price tag, this is the mid-range GPU to buy.

As it stands, Nvidia’s first RTX 40-series Super card is an impressive performance jump over the original RTX 4070 and one that I would seriously consider for a 1440p PC build. I’m now waiting to see if Nvidia can replicate the same performance boosts with its RTX 4070 Ti Super.

In terms of its gaming performance, the 4070 Super slots between the RTX 4070 and the RTX 4070 Ti, though it comes in much closer to the latter than it does the former. At 1440p for instance, it's 15% faster on average than the vanilla 4070, but just 6% slower than the Ti variant. That performance bump is enough to make it faster than the RX 7800 XT, this time by an 8% margin, while it offers 13% more performance than the last-gen RTX 3080 10GB.

Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 4070 Super is an intriguing new addition to the lineup. From a purely generational standpoint, it’s not that exciting. If you already own an RTX 4070, you should stick with it. However, standalone the 4070 Super continues to dominate, particularly at 4K and 1440p, where in our testing suite average framerates across all titles sat at 55 and 101 fps respectively.

NVIDIA’s new RTX 4070 SUPER Founders Edition won us over with its performance and NVIDIA’s decision to keep the MSRP of the RTX 4070. Rasterization performance for 1440p is excellent, and DLSS support in many games keeps NVIDIA ahead of AMD.

The Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Super is an absolute gem of a graphics card that soundly improves on the non-Super RTX 4070 while outperforming the current midrange champ, AMD's Radeon RX 7800 XT, overall. Still, its increased SM count is still hampered by too little VRAM and a too premium price for the midrange that it just misses being the perfect graphics card for gamers — but it doesn't need to be perfect to be the best graphics card on the market right now.

Nvidia's RTX 4070 Super delivers the expected boost in performance relative to the 4070, averaging 16% higher performance across our test suite for the same $599 — and pushing the existing card down to $549 as a result. It's a good if unsurprising mid-cycle refresh.