GeForce RTX 4070 Super Review: NVIDIA Delivers More Performance And Value

We tested all of the graphics cards represented in this article on an ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR X670E HERO motherboard, equipped with a Ryzen 7 7800X3D CPU and 32GB of G.SKILL DDR5 RAM clocked at 6,000MHz. The first thing we did when configuring the test system was enter the UEFI and set all values to their "high performance" defaults, then we disabled any integrated peripherals that wouldn't be put to use and enabled Resizable BAR support. We dialed in memory clock to its optimal performance settings using its EXPO profile, then formatted the solid state drive and installed Windows 11 Professional before performing all updates. When the Windows installation was complete, we installed all of the drivers, applications and benchmark tools necessary to complete our tests.

Our Test System Configuration:

Hardware Used: AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D (4.2GHz - 5GHz, 8-Core) ASUS X670E Hero  32GB G.SKILL DDR5-6000 Samsung SSD 990 Integrated Audio / Network IRadeon RX 7900 XT Radeon RX 7800 XT XFX QICK 319 Radeon RX 7700 XT GeForce RTX 4070 GeForce RTX 4070 Super GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Relevant Software: Windows 11 Pro 22H2 AMD Radeon v23.12.1 NVIDIA Drivers v546.52

Benchmarks Used: LuxMark v4 Blender v4 Blackmagic RAW Speed Test v3.6.1 IndigoBench v4.4.15 UL 3DMark UL VRMark Unigine Superposition Forspoken Returnal Cyberpunk 2077 Far Cry 6 GOTY Edition F1 23 Guardians Of The Galaxy

LuxMark v4.0 Benchmarks

IndigoBench Rendering Benchmarks

Once again we see the GeForce RTX 4070 Super finish just behind the more powerful GeForce RTX 4070 Ti in IndigoBench. NVIDIA's first RTX 40-series Super GPU also dominates the Radeons here, outrunning even the Radeon RX 7900 XT with both models. 

Blender v4 GPU Rendering Benchmarks

Blender is a free and open source 3D creation suite that can handle everything from modeling, rigging, and animation, through simulation, rendering, compositing, motion tracking, and even video editing or game creation. The developers offer a standalone benchmark tool that will track performance while rendering a handful of models. We used all three of the default models for these tests...

Blender is somewhat of a showcase application for NVIDIA's Ada Lovelace GPU architecture. Blender can make use of the RT cores on NVIDIA's GPUs, and as a result, performance is much higher than any competing GPU in a similar class. As expected, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Super outruns the base model here, and finishes just behind the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti. All of the Radeons are left trailing by wide margins.

Blackmagic RAW Speed Test Results

The Blackmagic RAW Speed Test is a CPU and GPU benchmarking tool that tests the speed of decoding full-resolution Blackmagic RAW frames. The tool can be used to evaluate the performance at various resolutions and bitrates on the CPU or using OpenCL or CUDA on a GPU. We're reporting two results here, both at an 8K resolution, but at differing bitrates and compression levels.


The Blackmagic RAW Speed Test doesn't play well with AMD's socket AM5 platform and discrete Radeon cards. When the basic Radeon graphics iGPU incorporated in Ryzen 7000 series processors is enabled, it seems the application ignores any discrete Radeon GPU in the sysytem, and performance tanks into the mid-20 frames per second. Disable the Radeon iGPU, and the discrete GPU will be used, but the Radeons trail the GeForces significantly. If we focus on the GeForce RTX 4070 Super specifically, it lands in the familair position, just behind the higher-end GeForce RTX 4070 Ti. The deltas separating the GeForces are quite small, however.