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

RT benchmarks: Hitman 3, Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition, F1 22.

Review by Richard Leadbetter Technology Editor, Digital Foundry

Published on 24 Jan 2024

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. RTX 4070 Ti Super humbles the RTX 3090 here with a 14 to 17 point lead whether you're gaming at 1440p or 2160p. Impressive.

The RTX 4080's overall lead is cut to around 14 to 16 percent - so we'll be awaiting the RTX 4080 Super with much interest, but a circa eight percentage point increase in performance over the non-Super Ti won't be putting it in the history books.

Metro Exodus Enhanced, Extreme, Ultra RT, Nvidia Features Off

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. Even so, a 13 point advantage over RTX 3090 is pretty impressive.

There's a reasonable boost over the outgoing RTX 4070 Ti, as we clock its successor delivering a nigh-on 13 percent lead, with the RTX 4080 another 13 points ahead of that. F1 22 RT works well with AMD, with the new Super only circa 10 points ahead at 1440p.