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expiredHappySquirrel998 posted Jul 09, 2024 03:18 AM
PNY GEFORCE RTX™ 4070 SUPER 12GB VERTO™ Dual Fan Overclocked Edition DLSS 3 | Dell USA - $475
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An in depth review of this exact model can be found here: https://www.techpowerup
The primary competition to the 4070 super is the amd 7900gre, which extremely rarely goes on sale for as low as $500 on an excellent sale. A good review comparing the two cards can be found here: https://www.techspot.co
I personally got this exact model (pny 4070 super verto dual fan oc) from dell at ~$480 a while back, and I'm pretty happy with it overall. This card is very small, being only two slots wide and slightly shorter than the founders edition. It is a "SFF-Ready Enthusiast GeForce Card" according to nvidia. As such, the cooler is much weaker than you'll find in the triple fan 3-slot monstrosities, and under full load might struggle in cases with poor airflow. In my system (which has excellent airflow), under a 10 minute furmark load that kept the gpu pegged to 220w the whole time and fans at 100% (based off the fan curve I set) the whole time, the gpu temp maxed out at 80.5C, the gpu memory junction temp maxed out at 68C, and the gpu hot spot temp maxed out at 102.4C . Performance is just about in line with a fe 4070 super before tuning, and acoustic performance is acceptable to my ears, though not stellar. The fans get pretty loud at high rpm, but at least there's no coil whine after several months. The power limit is not unlocked with the pny vbios, though realistically the performance benefit to increasing the power limit is minimal and the cooler won't handle it well. You can flash a different vbios if you want to unlock power limits and/or have an overclock out of the box, though you should obviously avoid this if you don't know what you're doing. Pny offers a 3 year warranty with this card.
I found that my 4070 super took quite well to a moderate undervolt/overclock (raising the curve and then flattening beyond the desired voltage, which takes more time to dial in and reduces max clocks, but yields the best effective clocks). With my current absolutely stable uc/oc with some buffer built in, in the superposition 8k optimized preset benchmark it scores around 6279 while only using ~195w on average (my cpu is a 7900x). I can get a significantly higher score if I allow some instability, but I personally like to leave a large amount of buffer. In case anyone's curious to use my settings as a reference point, my 4070 super is absolutely stable and gains performance with a +1550mhz memory clock oc, and a +160mhz core clock oc with the curve flattened beyond 975mv. This yields a substantial performance improvement above stock while simultaneously cutting power usage by 20w+ in most games. You'll have to use the beta version of msi afterburner, the officially released stable version doesn't have support for the 4070 super yet. To be clear, you shouldn't just copy those settings and expect them to work since it all depends on the silicon lottery, but it can at least act as a helpful starting point. I highly recommend using occt's 3d adaptive variable test for stability testing. I personally set the intensity range from 1% to 100% set to increase by 1% every 10 seconds and let it run for an hour. In my experience this catches instability that basically never run into with gaming.
Overall, if you have the amex offer this is an extremely good price for the 4070 super, and the 12% cb available if you know where to look makes it an even better deal. When you stack both it blows basically every other midrange gpu deal out of the water, and if you don't plan to wait for rdna4 this is a good option.
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An in depth review of this exact model can be found here: https://www.techpowerup
The primary competition to the 4070 super is the amd 7900gre, which extremely rarely goes on sale for as low as $500 on an excellent sale. A good review comparing the two cards can be found here: https://www.techspot.co
I personally got this exact model (pny 4070 super verto dual fan oc) from dell at ~$480 a while back, and I'm pretty happy with it overall. This card is very small, being only two slots wide and slightly shorter than the founders edition. It is a "SFF-Ready Enthusiast GeForce Card" according to nvidia. As such, the cooler is much weaker than you'll find in the triple fan 3-slot monstrosities, and under full load might struggle in cases with poor airflow. In my system (which has excellent airflow), under a 10 minute furmark load that kept the gpu pegged to 220w the whole time and fans at 100% (based off the fan curve I set) the whole time, the gpu temp maxed out at 80.5C, the gpu memory junction temp maxed out at 68C, and the gpu hot spot temp maxed out at 102.4C . Performance is just about in line with a fe 4070 super before tuning, and acoustic performance is acceptable to my ears, though not stellar. The fans get pretty loud at high rpm, but at least there's no coil whine after several months. The power limit is not unlocked with the pny vbios, though realistically the performance benefit to increasing the power limit is minimal and the cooler won't handle it well. You can flash a different vbios if you want to unlock power limits and/or have an overclock out of the box, though you should obviously avoid this if you don't know what you're doing. Pny offers a 3 year warranty with this card.
I found that my 4070 super took quite well to a moderate undervolt/overclock (raising the curve and then flattening beyond the desired voltage, which takes more time to dial in and reduces max clocks, but yields the best effective clocks). With my current absolutely stable uc/oc with some buffer built in, in the superposition 8k optimized preset benchmark it scores around 6279 while only using ~195w on average (my cpu is a 7900x). I can get a significantly higher score if I allow some instability, but I personally like to leave a large amount of buffer. In case anyone's curious to use my settings as a reference point, my 4070 super is absolutely stable and gains performance with a +1550mhz memory clock oc, and a +160mhz core clock oc with the curve flattened beyond 975mv. This yields a substantial performance improvement above stock while simultaneously cutting power usage by 20w+ in most games. You'll have to use the beta version of msi afterburner, the officially released stable version doesn't have support for the 4070 super yet. To be clear, you shouldn't just copy those settings and expect them to work since it all depends on the silicon lottery, but it can at least act as a helpful starting point. I highly recommend using occt's 3d adaptive variable test for stability testing. I personally set the intensity range from 1% to 100% set to increase by 1% every 10 seconds and let it run for an hour. In my experience this catches instability that basically never run into with gaming.
Overall, if you have the amex offer this is an extremely good price for the 4070 super, and the 12% cb available if you know where to look makes it an even better deal. When you stack both it blows basically every other midrange gpu deal out of the water, and if you don't plan to wait for rdna4 this is a good option.
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