Gameplay Performance at 4K
In this section, we are going to dial the resolution up a notch to 4K. All other settings will remain the same as they were in 1440p.
Returnal
Right out of the blocks, the RX 7900 XT picks up where it left off. The margin is 14% and 29% upscaled. Both cards are nicely playable without upscaling. Overclocking the MSI RTX 4070 Ti SUPRIM X gains 4%.
Forspoken
Both cards just make it into playable framerates. Upscaling is necessary, no doubt. The RX 7900 XT is better by 10% and 6%. You get 3% faster with overclocking, but essentially nothing added to upscaling.
Callisto Protocol
The RX 7900 XT comes out ahead again, here by 4%. Once again, upscaling gives a hefty boost of over 33%. If you overclock the MSI RTX 4070 Ti SUPRIM X you’ll get the win here by just over 5%.
Chernobyl Enhanced Edition
The MSI RTX 4070 Ti SUPRIM X is the faster card by just over 2%, all the FPS here are very fast, however. Upscaling boosts the margin of victory to 10%. Once again, overclocking gains about 3%.
Dying Light 2
The RX 7900 XT is 14% faster, either way. Both cards again are fast at 4K! Upscaling simply adds better. The overclock adds 4% in this game.
Cyberpunk 2077
No matter how hard you try, Cyberpunk will beat you. Neither card is playable, the toughest game of the 6 we use currently. The RX 7900 XT does get close and still is faster by 16% and 20% upscaled. The MSI RTX 4070 Ti SUPRIM X can’t make the grade even with upscaling, close but not close enough.
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.