NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Founders Edition & MSRP Model Review Ft. MSI, GALAX & PNY

Time flies by quickly, it’s already been six months since we tested the first Ada Lovelace graphics card, the GeForce RTX 4090 and now, NVIDIA has launched the fourth entry in its ever-expanding desktop lineup, the RTX 4070.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 aims to bring the pricing of the Ada lineup down to a starting point of $599 US, which is 25% cheaper than the RTX 4070 Ti. In addition to that, the GeForce RTX 4070 tries to retain a similar memory hierarchy, marking a big boost to the available graphics memory compared to its predecessor, the RTX 3070 (8 GB Memory).

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti has been selling pretty well so if NVIDIA can deliver more or less similar performance at a lower price then that would mean even better sales figures for the new entrant and that value is exactly the thing we want to try finding in this review besides just the overall performance increase.

While we will be talking about the GeForce RTX 4070 in this review, we will also be taking a look at how it offers faster shader performance, faster ray tracing performance, & faster AI performance. Built on a brand new process node and featuring an architecture designed from the ground up, Ada is a killer product with lots of numbers to talk about.

Today, we will be taking a look at the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 graphics card. We will be looking at both Founders Edition and custom models but do keep in mind that these specific custom designs are going to be MSRP models which will stick to the $599 US pricing. For the premium models, we’ll once again revisit the RTX 4070 tomorrow to see if the extra price justifies the need to spend more than the MSRP.

NVIDIA GeForce GPU Segment/Tier Prices

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 Series Gaming Graphics Cards

Turing wasn’t just any graphics core, it was the graphics core that was to become the foundation of future GPUs. The future is realized now with next-generation consoles going deep in talks about ray tracing and AI-assisted super-sampling techniques. NVIDIA had a head start with Turing & Ampere and its Ada generation will only do things infinitely times better.

The Ada GPU does many traditional things which we would expect from a GPU, but at the same time, also breaks the barrier when it comes to untraditional GPU operations. Just to sum up some features:

• New Streaming Multiprocessor (SM)
• New Turing Tensor Cores
• New Real-Time Ray Tracing Acceleration
• New Shading Enhancements
• New Deep Learning Features For Graphics & Inference
• New GDDR6X High-Performance Memory Subsystem
• New HDMI 2.1 Display Engine & Next-Gen NVENC/NVDEC

The technologies mentioned above are some of the main building blocks of the Ada GPU, but there’s more within the graphics core itself which we will talk about in detail so let’s get started.