Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Super review: more frames for less money

A pair of excellent ray tracing titles are put through their paces in this second battery of RT testing. Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition remains the first - and only - triple-A gaming experience to be released requiring a GPU capable of hardware-accelerated ray tracing, while F1 22 is an interesting example of a fully-featured RT game that perhaps doesn't benefit from all of those effects, especially when it's so brutally fast from a rasterisation perspective.

To reiterate if you're jumping straight to this page without looking at prior results, our benchmarking system offers a number of ways to get to the data you want, the presentation varying according to the device you're using. You'll get a basic overview of our findings on mobile, with metadata from the video capture of each GPU being translated into simple bar charts with average frame-rate and lowest one per cent measurements for easy comparisons.

On a desktop-class browser, you'll get the full-fat DF experience with embedded YouTube videos of each test scene and live performance metrics. Play the video, and you'll see exactly how each card handled the scene as it progresses. Below the real-time metrics is an interactive bar chart, which you can mouse over to see different measurements and click to switch between actual frame-rates and percentage differences. All the data here is derived from video captured directly from each GPU, ensuring an accurate replay of real performance.

Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition

4A Games' revised version of its excellent action adventure shooter remains the only triple-A title that demands the use of a graphics card that allows for the use of hardware-accelerated ray tracing and, until the new 4A epic arrives, it'll always have a place in our benchmarking suite.

Here, the RTX 4070 Super works out just fine, with a nigh-on 19 percentage point lead over the vanilla RTX 4070, reducing to a 13.5 percent lead over the RTX 3080. Stacked up against the RTX 4070 Ti, there's about 92 percent of the older, more powerful card's throughput.

F1 22

We're running the Codemasters racer fully maxed at its ultra high setting for this one, with the full complement of RT features engaged - though it's fair to say that their impact in improving the visuals is difficult to spot in the thick of the race.

There's a relatively slight circa eight percentage point lead over the RTX 3080, while the boost up against the standard RTX 4070 is more muscular at around 15 percent. Comparisons with the 4070 Ti are nice but hardly revelatory at this point - we clock the Super as delivering almost 96 percent of its performance.

Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Super Analysis

• Introduction
• RT benchmarks: Dying Light 2, Cyberpunk 2077, Control
• RT benchmarks: Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition, F1 22 [This Page]
• RT/DLSS/FSR2/DLSS3 benchmarks: Cyberpunk 2077, Dying Light 2, Forza Horizon 5
• Game benchmarks: Control, Cyberpunk 2077, F1 22, Forza Horizon 5
• Game benchmarks: Hitman 3, A Plague Tale: Requiem, Returnal
• Conclusions and recommendations