Nvidia GeForce RTX4070

NVIDIA places the new graphics card in the "mid-range" claiming that it is ideal for gaming at 1440p resolutions with more than 100 fps and with ray tracing and DLSS 3 (the company's new version of the upscaling technique) enabled.

The new GeForce RTX 4070 is the first GeForce RTX 40-series graphics card that is… regular sized and therefore can fit in many different PC cases. The new GeForce RTX 4070 is even shorter than the GeForce RTX 3080 and was designed to offer similar performance at least at 1440p resolution. The GPU is naturally based on the NVIDIA Ada Lovelace architecture and incorporates 12GB of GDDR6X 21Gbps memory with the memory bus having a 192-bit bandwidth.

The GeForce RTX 4070 is based on the same graphics processor (AD104) that the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti is based on, albeit with "reduced features". More specifically, it has 5,888 CUDA cores, 46 Ray Tracing (RT) cores, 184 Tensor cores, 184 Texture Mapping Units (TMU) and 64 ROPs. It offers all the features of "Ada Lovelace" including dual video encoder accelerators, Optical Flow accelerator and DLSS 3 frame generation technique. The card has a TBP (Typical Board Power) at 200 W with NVIDIA allowing partner companies to use 8 -pin PCI-E connector for its additional power supply instead of the 16-pin 12VHPWR connector.

The new GeForce RTX 4070 graphics card includes support for the AV1 codec, which will soon be extremely useful for streamers as YouTube prepares to soon roll out an 'AV1 Livestreaming' feature to improve bitrates as well as image quality. As we mentioned, the new graphics card also supports the upscaling technique called DLSS 3 that promises to increase framerates in games like Cyberpunk 2077, Forza Horizon 5 and Redfall.

The DLSS 3 technique is exclusive to GeForce RTX 40-series graphics cards and uses the same Artificial Intelligence (AI) as the DLSS 2 technique, albeit alongside a new AI frame generation technology. With DLSS 3, two frames are created using existing rendering techniques and then a third frame is inserted between them to significantly boost framerates, which is especially important when using ray tracing or other optimizations like path tracing in Cyberpunk 2077.

NVIDIA claims that 83% of GeForce RTX 40 series owners enable ray tracing in games that support this feature, with 79% also enabling DLSS. GeForce RTX 30 series graphics card owners enable DLSS in 71% of games that support it, while 68% of GeForce RTX 20 series graphics card owners enable the technique in the same titles.