Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super review: a new 4K/1440p contender

RT benchmarks: Dying Light 2, Cyberpunk 2077, Control.

Review by Richard Leadbetter Technology Editor, Digital Foundry

Published on 24 Jan 2024

Since the arrival of Intel Arc and RTX 40-series GPUs last year, we've adopted a revised test suite that aims to better reflect the future of gaming technology. That means we're zeroing in on titles using key engines and low-level gaming APIs, while we've beefed up representation for ray tracing and image reconstruction. 1440p resolution is our core focus here, but we've supplied 1080p and a limited number of 4K metrics too.

Ray tracing is no longer a second-class citizen with the latest generation of GPUs, and we're seeing some of the most intensive GPU workloads you can get delivered at really decent frame-rates - even before we factor in image reconstruction technologies like DLSS and FSR2.

Our benchmarking system below offers a number of ways to get to the data you want, the presentation varying according to the device you're looking at right now. 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 a 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.

Dying Light 2

Pure ray tracing performance is where the Ada Lovelace line of GPUs truly shine, so on the first couple of pages of this review, expect to see the RTX 4070 Ti Super operating at its best - and it starts well here, with the 4070 Ti Super offering a 12 point lead over the RTX 3090, meaning we're at 3090 Ti-level performance.

An eight percentage point lead over the RTX 4070 Ti isn't exactly a game-changing improvement and right away we can see that the kind of delta seen between 4070 and 4070 Super isn't going to be repeated here. There's a handy 23 percent lead over the RX 7900 XT from AMD, but the RTX 4080 - which uses the same base silicon - is a good 18 percentage points ahead.

Dying Light 2, High RT, TAA

Cyberpunk 2077

Cyberpunk 2077 - operating in pure RT mode here with no upscaling - offers us one of the bigger increases to overall performance. Remarkably, there's a 15 percent advantage here for the RTX 4070 Ti Super over the RTX 3090, while we're looking at a 10 percentage point lead over the old RTX 4070 Ti.

That's a creditable boost then, while the 43 percentage point lead over AMD's closest competitor - the RX 7900 XT - is another plus point. The RTX 4080 is only 12 points clear on this one, but that rises to 16 percent if we flip over to the 4K results.

Cyberpunk 2077, Ultra RT, TAA

Control

Control has thumbed its nose at the Ada Lovelace generation of GPUs from Nvidia, offering sub-standard gen-on-gen gains over the Ampere 30-series cards, but the RTX 4070 Ti Super fares pretty well here with a nine point lead over the mighty RTX 3090, though this does drop to six percent at 4K.

The wider memory interface may be making the difference here, as even at 1440p resolution the RTX 4070 Ti Super is 12.5 percent to the better against its non-Super counterpart. At both 1440p and 4K, the RTX 4080 is only 14-15 percentage points clear. With a 23-25 point lead over RX 7900 XT (depending on resolution), this is clearly a much faster card than AMD's closest competitor - though that will likely change fundamentally when we get to this benchmark without RT enabled.