NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Founders Edition Video Card Review

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Test Setup

Please read the information on our GPU testing procedures and methodology here.  Note that our GPU Testing Bench has been upgraded to the Ryzen 7 7800X3D CPU and AM5 platform.

System Setup Table

We are using the motherboard’s current default BIOS settings on the latest release BIOS. We have enabled PCI-Express Resizable BAR in the motherboard BIOS.  This means we are utilizing Resizable BAR on NVIDIA GPUs and AMD Smart Access Memory on AMD GPUs in all our testing.  We have enabled EXPO I in the BIOS for the memory.

We are using a fresh install of Windows 11 Pro with the latest Windows Updates, including the 22H2 Fall 2022 update. We have the latest drivers installed including the latest chipset drivers from AMD.  We are using the “Balanced” power profile in Windows Settings.  Hardware Accelerated GPU Scheduling is ENABLED in Windows.  VBS is DISABLED and Game Mode is ENABLED.

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REVIEW OVERVIEW

Gaming Performance
9
Power Efficiency
10
Build and Cooling
10
Price Value
7

SUMMARY

We reviewed the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Founders Edition video card, offering a more affordable RTX 40 Series GPU geared for 1440p high framerate gaming. Its gaming performance was very fast, surpassing the previous generation at the same price point by a good margin. It does so with great power efficiency, offering a cool running well built video card with exceptional savings on power demands. It offers more features than the previous generation, but the price point is elevated in this category compared to the previous generation, raising the price segment for this tier of GPU.
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We reviewed the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Founders Edition video card, offering a more affordable RTX 40 Series GPU geared for 1440p high framerate gaming. Its gaming performance was very fast, surpassing the previous generation at the same price point by a good margin. It does so with great power efficiency, offering a cool running well built video card with exceptional savings on power demands. It offers more features than the previous generation, but the price point is elevated in this category compared to the previous generation, raising the price segment for this tier of GPU.NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Founders Edition Video Card Review