Micro Center has
Zotac GeForce RTX 4070 Twin Edge OC RGB 12GB GDDR6X PCIe 4.0 Graphics Card (ZT-D40700H-10M) on sale for
$455.99. Select free store pickup only where stock permits.
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Note, product availability will vary by location.
You may be eligible for Star Wars: Outlaws (PCDD) w/ purchase of this NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 Series GPU [
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About the Product- GeForce RTX 40 Series
- 12GB/192-Bit Video Memory/Overlocked
- GDDR6X
- PCIe 4.0x16
- 2490MHz Boost Core Clock Speed
- Dual Slot/Fan/Full Height
- RGB Illuminated LED
- DisplayPort 1.4a/HDMI 2.1a
Warranty- Includes 3-year manufacturers warranty w/ purchase (parts + labor)
Top Comments
The twin edge is zotac's budget model, with significantly smaller dimensions and a worse cooler than most higher end models. On the plus side, its small dimensions make it one of the relatively few 4070 models that work well in a sff (small form factor) build, though cooling can be quite a challenge. Based off the reviews and forum posts I've read, the cooler on this model seems to be sufficient considering this card's low tdp, however temps and acoustic performance are meaningfully worse than larger cards.
If you want to play at any resolution higher than 1080p, and don't want to deal with the compromises of an amd gpu, the rtx 4070 is pretty much the cheapest nvidia card that's viable. The rtx 4060 and 4060ti are far slower than the 4070, and only have 8gb of vram (excluding the stupidly overpriced and just as underpowered 4060ti 16gb), they're firmly relegated to being 1080p cards. Additionally, at the low end, many of nvidias advantages (such as better raytracing and dlss 3 frame gen) become far less viable, so you'd be better off getting an amd card.
Amd cards tend to offer better value in terms of raw rasterized cost per frame and vram capacity at their price tier, but you also miss out on some nvidia specific benefits. The main disadvantages to purchasing an amd gpu instead of an nivida gpu (off the top of my head) are: moderately worse power efficiency, slightly worse (though still perfectly usable, at least in my experience) drivers, substantially worse raytracing performance in the same price tier (which only really becomes meaningful in the midrange (4070 / 7800xt) and up), no dlss (which is a more widely supported and substantially superior upscaler compared to fsr), a more limited feature set (no rtx video, rtx hdr, nvidia reflex, etc.), worse ai/ml performance (though the lack of vram hamstrings nvidia gpus in many of those applications), worse encoding performance, and a lack of cuda. That being said, for many gamers those disadvantages may not be sufficient to justify paying substantially more for a card with less vram and worse cost per frame. On the plus side for amd, the radeon adrenaline software is generally superior to the nvidia control panel and geforce experience imo, though it's possible nvidia's new beta "app" might catch up to it eventually. The rtx 4070 at $456 is a rather good price, I personally would consider its value at this price relatively similar to the value of the 7800xt priced at ~$420 or the 7900gre priced at ~$490 (factoring in the high potential overclocking headroom of the 7900gre).
In my experience nvidia's lovelace cards take quite well to a pretty heavy 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) and a heavy memory overclock. A memory overclock on a 4070 is a decent jump in performance for basically free, and I highly recommend it even if you wouldn't otherwise be tinkering with your card. The vast majority of gddr6x 4070s should be able to do at least +1000mhz memory clock so long as your memory junction temps are good and you don't get unlucky. Between 925mv-975mv core voltage seems to be lovelace's sweet spot for meaningfully reducing power draw and temps while retaining a proportionately high degree of performance. Since this card has a fairly weak cooler, I recommend trying an undervolt at 925mv. I highly recommend occt's 3d adaptive stability tests to test stability if you overclock/undervolt your gpu.
Overall, at $456 this is a pretty good deal. It's worth noting that Black Friday / Cyber Monday are coming up soon, so it's theoretically possible there'll be better deals if you're willing to wait, though I doubt we'll see much better for a nvidia card at this performance tier. Additionally, based off current leaks, amd is planning to release its rdna4 flagship in early 2025, and current projections are that it is likely to offer a meaningful improvement in cost per frame. Likewise, nvidia is planning to release it's 5000 series starting with the 5090, 5080, and 5070 in early 2025 (lower end cards may release later), though prices are likely to be quite high initially.
At the time of composing this post the following stores have stock:
Denver (8 in stock)
Chicago (1 in stock)
Overland park (1 in stock)
Rockville (5 in stock)
Parkville (1 in stock)
Brentwood (3 in stock)
North Jersey (6 in stock)
Flushing (3 in stock)
Yonkers (3 in stock)
Mayfield Heights (4 in stock)
Houston (9 in stock)
That being said, it does appear to be selling out quick. Around a dozen stores that previously had stock are now out in just the time it took for me to write my prior post. Keep in mind that some stock may become available at stores currently out of stock due to restocking or people cancelling orders.
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The twin edge is zotac's budget model, with significantly smaller dimensions and a worse cooler than most higher end models. On the plus side, its small dimensions make it one of the relatively few 4070 models that work well in a sff (small form factor) build, though cooling can be quite a challenge. Based off the reviews and forum posts I've read, the cooler on this model seems to be sufficient considering this card's low tdp, however temps and acoustic performance are meaningfully worse than larger cards.
If you want to play at any resolution higher than 1080p, and don't want to deal with the compromises of an amd gpu, the rtx 4070 is pretty much the cheapest nvidia card that's viable. The rtx 4060 and 4060ti are far slower than the 4070, and only have 8gb of vram (excluding the stupidly overpriced and just as underpowered 4060ti 16gb), they're firmly relegated to being 1080p cards. Additionally, at the low end, many of nvidias advantages (such as better raytracing and dlss 3 frame gen) become far less viable, so you'd be better off getting an amd card.
Amd cards tend to offer better value in terms of raw rasterized cost per frame and vram capacity at their price tier, but you also miss out on some nvidia specific benefits. The main disadvantages to purchasing an amd gpu instead of an nivida gpu (off the top of my head) are: moderately worse power efficiency, slightly worse (though still perfectly usable, at least in my experience) drivers, substantially worse raytracing performance in the same price tier (which only really becomes meaningful in the midrange (4070 / 7800xt) and up), no dlss (which is a more widely supported and substantially superior upscaler compared to fsr), a more limited feature set (no rtx video, rtx hdr, nvidia reflex, etc.), worse ai/ml performance (though the lack of vram hamstrings nvidia gpus in many of those applications), worse encoding performance, and a lack of cuda. That being said, for many gamers those disadvantages may not be sufficient to justify paying substantially more for a card with less vram and worse cost per frame. On the plus side for amd, the radeon adrenaline software is generally superior to the nvidia control panel and geforce experience imo, though it's possible nvidia's new beta "app" might catch up to it eventually. The rtx 4070 at $456 is a rather good price, I personally would consider its value at this price relatively similar to the value of the 7800xt priced at ~$420 or the 7900gre priced at ~$490 (factoring in the high potential overclocking headroom of the 7900gre).
In my experience nvidia's lovelace cards take quite well to a pretty heavy 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) and a heavy memory overclock. A memory overclock on a 4070 is a decent jump in performance for basically free, and I highly recommend it even if you wouldn't otherwise be tinkering with your card. The vast majority of gddr6x 4070s should be able to do at least +1000mhz memory clock so long as your memory junction temps are good and you don't get unlucky. Between 925mv-975mv core voltage seems to be lovelace's sweet spot for meaningfully reducing power draw and temps while retaining a proportionately high degree of performance. Since this card has a fairly weak cooler, I recommend trying an undervolt at 925mv. I highly recommend occt's 3d adaptive stability tests to test stability if you overclock/undervolt your gpu.
Overall, at $456 this is a pretty good deal. It's worth noting that Black Friday / Cyber Monday are coming up soon, so it's theoretically possible there'll be better deals if you're willing to wait, though I doubt we'll see much better for a nvidia card at this performance tier. Additionally, based off current leaks, amd is planning to release its rdna4 flagship in early 2025, and current projections are that it is likely to offer a meaningful improvement in cost per frame. Likewise, nvidia is planning to release it's 5000 series starting with the 5090, 5080, and 5070 in early 2025 (lower end cards may release later), though prices are likely to be quite high initially.
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At the time of composing this post the following stores have stock:
Denver (8 in stock)
Chicago (1 in stock)
Overland park (1 in stock)
Rockville (5 in stock)
Parkville (1 in stock)
Brentwood (3 in stock)
North Jersey (6 in stock)
Flushing (3 in stock)
Yonkers (3 in stock)
Mayfield Heights (4 in stock)
Houston (9 in stock)
That being said, it does appear to be selling out quick. Around a dozen stores that previously had stock are now out in just the time it took for me to write my prior post. Keep in mind that some stock may become available at stores currently out of stock due to restocking or people cancelling orders.
The twin edge is zotac's budget model, with significantly smaller dimensions and a worse cooler than most higher end models. On the plus side, its small dimensions make it one of the relatively few 4070 models that work well in a sff (small form factor) build, though cooling can be quite a challenge. Based off the reviews and forum posts I've read, the cooler on this model seems to be sufficient considering this card's low tdp, however temps and acoustic performance are meaningfully worse than larger cards.
If you want to play at any resolution higher than 1080p, and don't want to deal with the compromises of an amd gpu, the rtx 4070 is pretty much the cheapest nvidia card that's viable. The rtx 4060 and 4060ti are far slower than the 4070, and only have 8gb of vram (excluding the stupidly overpriced and just as underpowered 4060ti 16gb), they're firmly relegated to being 1080p cards. Additionally, at the low end, many of nvidias advantages (such as better raytracing and dlss 3 frame gen) become far less viable, so you'd be better off getting an amd card.
Amd cards tend to offer better value in terms of raw rasterized cost per frame and vram capacity at their price tier, but you also miss out on some nvidia specific benefits. The main disadvantages to purchasing an amd gpu instead of an nivida gpu (off the top of my head) are: moderately worse power efficiency, slightly worse (though still perfectly usable, at least in my experience) drivers, substantially worse raytracing performance in the same price tier (which only really becomes meaningful in the midrange (4070 / 7800xt) and up), no dlss (which is a more widely supported and substantially superior upscaler compared to fsr), a more limited feature set (no rtx video, rtx hdr, nvidia reflex, etc.), worse ai/ml performance (though the lack of vram hamstrings nvidia gpus in many of those applications), worse encoding performance, and a lack of cuda. That being said, for many gamers those disadvantages may not be sufficient to justify paying substantially more for a card with less vram and worse cost per frame. On the plus side for amd, the radeon adrenaline software is generally superior to the nvidia control panel and geforce experience imo, though it's possible nvidia's new beta "app" might catch up to it eventually. The rtx 4070 at $456 is a rather good price, I personally would consider its value at this price relatively similar to the value of the 7800xt priced at ~$420 or the 7900gre priced at ~$490 (factoring in the high potential overclocking headroom of the 7900gre).
In my experience nvidia's lovelace cards take quite well to a pretty heavy 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) and a heavy memory overclock. A memory overclock on a 4070 is a decent jump in performance for basically free, and I highly recommend it even if you wouldn't otherwise be tinkering with your card. The vast majority of gddr6x 4070s should be able to do at least +1000mhz memory clock so long as your memory junction temps are good and you don't get unlucky. Between 925mv-975mv core voltage seems to be lovelace's sweet spot for meaningfully reducing power draw and temps while retaining a proportionately high degree of performance. Since this card has a fairly weak cooler, I recommend trying an undervolt at 925mv. I highly recommend occt's 3d adaptive stability tests to test stability if you overclock/undervolt your gpu.
Overall, at $456 this is a pretty good deal. It's worth noting that Black Friday / Cyber Monday are coming up soon, so it's theoretically possible there'll be better deals if you're willing to wait, though I doubt we'll see much better for a nvidia card at this performance tier. Additionally, based off current leaks, amd is planning to release its rdna4 flagship in early 2025, and current projections are that it is likely to offer a meaningful improvement in cost per frame. Likewise, nvidia is planning to release it's 5000 series starting with the 5090, 5080, and 5070 in early 2025 (lower end cards may release later), though prices are likely to be quite high initially.
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Back to topic, this is a good deal but it's Microcenter so its very very limited for entire community. Extreme low stocks. Out by me.
I'm guessing that's why the dropping prices...
Hoping Black Friday around the corner many deals to come
The twin edge is zotac's budget model, with significantly smaller dimensions and a worse cooler than most higher end models. On the plus side, its small dimensions make it one of the relatively few 4070 models that work well in a sff (small form factor) build, though cooling can be quite a challenge. Based off the reviews and forum posts I've read, the cooler on this model seems to be sufficient considering this card's low tdp, however temps and acoustic performance are meaningfully worse than larger cards.
If you want to play at any resolution higher than 1080p, and don't want to deal with the compromises of an amd gpu, the rtx 4070 is pretty much the cheapest nvidia card that's viable. The rtx 4060 and 4060ti are far slower than the 4070, and only have 8gb of vram (excluding the stupidly overpriced and just as underpowered 4060ti 16gb), they're firmly relegated to being 1080p cards. Additionally, at the low end, many of nvidias advantages (such as better raytracing and dlss 3 frame gen) become far less viable, so you'd be better off getting an amd card.
Amd cards tend to offer better value in terms of raw rasterized cost per frame and vram capacity at their price tier, but you also miss out on some nvidia specific benefits. The main disadvantages to purchasing an amd gpu instead of an nivida gpu (off the top of my head) are: moderately worse power efficiency, slightly worse (though still perfectly usable, at least in my experience) drivers, substantially worse raytracing performance in the same price tier (which only really becomes meaningful in the midrange (4070 / 7800xt) and up), no dlss (which is a more widely supported and substantially superior upscaler compared to fsr), a more limited feature set (no rtx video, rtx hdr, nvidia reflex, etc.), worse ai/ml performance (though the lack of vram hamstrings nvidia gpus in many of those applications), worse encoding performance, and a lack of cuda. That being said, for many gamers those disadvantages may not be sufficient to justify paying substantially more for a card with less vram and worse cost per frame. On the plus side for amd, the radeon adrenaline software is generally superior to the nvidia control panel and geforce experience imo, though it's possible nvidia's new beta "app" might catch up to it eventually. The rtx 4070 at $456 is a rather good price, I personally would consider its value at this price relatively similar to the value of the 7800xt priced at ~$420 or the 7900gre priced at ~$490 (factoring in the high potential overclocking headroom of the 7900gre).
In my experience nvidia's lovelace cards take quite well to a pretty heavy 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) and a heavy memory overclock. A memory overclock on a 4070 is a decent jump in performance for basically free, and I highly recommend it even if you wouldn't otherwise be tinkering with your card. The vast majority of gddr6x 4070s should be able to do at least +1000mhz memory clock so long as your memory junction temps are good and you don't get unlucky. Between 925mv-975mv core voltage seems to be lovelace's sweet spot for meaningfully reducing power draw and temps while retaining a proportionately high degree of performance. Since this card has a fairly weak cooler, I recommend trying an undervolt at 925mv. I highly recommend occt's 3d adaptive stability tests to test stability if you overclock/undervolt your gpu.
Overall, at $456 this is a pretty good deal. It's worth noting that Black Friday / Cyber Monday are coming up soon, so it's theoretically possible there'll be better deals if you're willing to wait, though I doubt we'll see much better for a nvidia card at this performance tier. Additionally, based off current leaks, amd is planning to release its rdna4 flagship in early 2025, and current projections are that it is likely to offer a meaningful improvement in cost per frame. Likewise, nvidia is planning to release it's 5000 series starting with the 5090, 5080, and 5070 in early 2025 (lower end cards may release later), though prices are likely to be quite high initially.
To satisfy my curiousity, what kind of graphics card am I looking at to take full advantage of this monitor [amazon.com]?
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I've been looking for a 4070 on the used market and people still want $500+. Here I could get one brand new with a warranty for less.