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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti: Compute, Rendering And Encoding Tests
We tested all of the graphics cards represented in this article on a Gigabyte X570 Pro Wi-Fi motherboard, equipped with a Ryzen 7 5800X3D CPU and 16GB of G.SKILL DDR4 RAM clocked at 3,200MHz. 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. The memory clock was dialed-in to its optimal performance settings using its XMP profile and the solid state drive was then formatted and Windows 11 Professional installed and fully updated. 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 9 5800X3D (3.4GHz - 4.5GHz, 8-Core) Gigabyte Aorus X570 Pro Wi-Fi 16GB G.SKILL DDR4-3200 Samsung SSD 970 EVO Integrated Audio / Network ASUS TUF GeForce RTX 4070 Ti NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12GB NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT Relevant Software: Windows 11 Pro 22H2 AMD Radeon 22.11.1 NVIDIA Drivers v526.74/v527.62 |
Benchmarks Used: LuxMark v4 Blender v3.3.0 Blackmagic RAW Speed Test v2.6 IndigoBench v4.4.15 UL 3DMark UL VRMark Unigine Superposition CryTek Neon Noir Final Fantasy XIV Endwalker Assassin's Creed Valhalla FarCry 6 Forza Horizon 5 F1 2022 / F1 2021 A Plague Tale: Requiem Guardians Of The Galaxy Fortnite |
LuxMark v4.0 Benchmarks
LuxMark is a cross-platform, OpenCL-accelerated 3D rendering benchmark. It's a tool based on the open source LuxRender physically-based spectral rendering engine, which accurately models the transportation of light and supports high dynamic range. LuxRender features a number of material types to allow rendering of photo-realistic and artistic scenes. LuxRender is free software, licensed under the GPL, that offers plugins for packages like Blender, Maya, Cinema 4D and 3DS Max.
The GeForce RTX 4070 Ti traded blows with the previous-gen RTX 3090 Ti in Luxmark, besting the older card in the more taxing Food scene, but trailing slightly with the Hall Bench scene. Versus competition from AMD, the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti easily dispatches the RX 6000 series cards and the recently released Radeon RX 7900 XT, but the more powerful 7900 XTX finishes well ahead.
IndigoBench Rendering Benchmarks
IndigoBench is based on Indigo 4's advanced rendering engine and offers both CPU and GPU rendering modes for its two built-in models. The standalone benchmark is available for Windows, MacOS, and Linux and outputs results in M/Samples per second.
The GeForce RTX 4070 Ti also traded blows with the RTX 3090 Ti and Radeon RX 7900 XTX here, depending on the scene. The GeForce RTX 4070 Ti, however, clearly outperformed the Radeon RX 7900 XT and previous-gen Radeons.
Blender v3.3.0 GPU Rendering Benchmarks
Blender is a free and open source 3D creation suite that can handle everything from modeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing and motion tracking, even video editing and game creation. The developers offer a standalone benchmarking tool that will track performance while rendering a handful of models. We used all three of the default models for these tests...
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 GeForce RTX 4070 Ti land about in the middle of the pack in the Blackmagic RAW speed test. While all of the cards perform similarly in the 8K 3:1 test due to system level bottlenecks, with the 8K 12:1 workload clear deltas emerge. The 4070 Ti easily dispatches all of the Radeons, and slots in just behind the RTX 3090 Ti.
