Gameplay Performance at 1440p with Ray Tracing
In this section, we enable Ray Tracing in the game. All other settings remain as they were above, 1440p with all the dials turned up as high as they go. When there is a choice, Ray Tracing is set to the highest allowed by the game. DLSS and FSR are again utilized when supported by the game.
Returnal
The results here favor the MSI RTX 4070 TI SUPRIM X. The Margin is 8% and 6% faster than the RX 7900 XT. With overclocking, we add an additional 5%! Once again, the non-upscaled performance is impressive.
Forspoken
Prior to adding upscaling the result is essentially a tie. However, with upscaling the RX 7900 XT does prevail by 4%. Overclocking adds 5% and carries the MSI RTX 4070 Ti SUPRIM X, until the upscaling sees it lose out by a nose. All in all these results here are too close to call.
Callisto Protocol
Here we see one win for each card. The MSI RTX 4070 Ti SUPRIM X tops the chart by 6% without upscaling. The result flips when FSR is enabled. Overclocking only gains 2% in this benchmark run.
Chernobylite Enhanced Edition
The Ray Tracing in this game puts quite a load on the video card. Overall performance is essentially cut in half. The MSI RTX 4070 Ti SUPRIM X is the better performer by 32%. Ouch. We see a 4% gain by overclocking. Upscaling is a must with Ray Tracing enabled in this game.
Dying Light 2
The MSI RTX 4070 Ti SUPRIM X is faster by 23% and 17% here. Both cards are fast once upscaling is enabled, which is a nice bonus. The overclock nets 6%.
Cyberpunk 2077
Neither card is playable until upscaling is enabled. Cyberpunk is still the King! Our MSI RTX 4070 Ti SUPRIM X is a whopping 36% faster, but still not fast enough. Once upscaling is enabled both cards are playable, however, the margin is still maintained at 36%. Overclocking here shows minimal benefit, but I would take 88FPS in Cyberpunk all day.
Discussion (6 replies)
Join Discussion →nice writeup. Still too rich for my blood. I refuse to spend over $500 on a GPU
I think the RTX4070Ti is a pretty good card but about $100 too much. D*mn I remember the days I would get awesome cards for $300.
I remember my 1070 back in the day was around 450 if I remember correctly.
Back then, I got a great deal on my GTX1070 for $350 and then a GTX1070Ti for $375. Just before the mining craze
In the introduction you provide an overview of the three tiers: "The SUPRIM is at the top, Gaming Trio next, and Ventus at the bottom. The SUPRIM and Gaming Trio have an X and non-X version, X denoting overclock. The Ventus is simply OC or not. In the RTX 4070 Ti, MSI also offers a white version of the Gaming Trio X and non-X."
Maybe I'm an exception, but I would actually rather buy a video card that isn't factory overclocked.
I'm curious whether anyone knows what sort of binning goes on and how that might affect chip quality not only among the tiers but also the "X" or "OC" variants. A card that draws less power and is cooler at stock speeds is desirable too, but if that is a goal then buying a factory-overclocked card seems a little bit counterintuitive. I wonder whether (for example) the non-X variant of the SUPRIM card would be of equal quality to its X counterpart, but without the factory overclock.
Just a curiosity of mine...
I don't anticipate buying any of the 4000-series cards.
Those are very good prices. The MSRP of the GTX 1070 was $379 at launch. I bought an MSI GeForce GTX 1070 GAMING X for $400 toward the end 2016. (It included a $20 mail-in rebate that I managed to screw up by waiting too long. My perfect rebate record was ruined. ?)
$330 I think for an open box Asus 1070 from microcenter. Those were the days.