ASUS TUF GeForce RTX 4070 Ti OC Review: NVIDIA’s Ada Lights Up CES

3DMark Time Spy is a synthetic DirectX benchmark test from UL. It features a DirectX 12 engine built from the ground up to support bleeding-edge features like asynchronous compute, explicit multi-adapter, and multi-threading. Time Spy is designed to test the DX12 performance of the latest graphics cards using a variety of techniques and varied visual sequences. This benchmark was developed with input from AMD, Intel, Microsoft, NVIDIA, and the other members of the UL Benchmark Development Program, to showcase the performance and visual potential of graphics cards driven by close-to-the-metal, low-overhead APIs.

UL 3DMark Time Spy DX12 Benchmarks

The GeForce RTX 4070 Ti finished just behind the Radeon RX 7900 XT, but ahead of the Radeon RX 6950 XT and GeForce RTX 3090 Ti in this traditional rasterization test, that doesn't make use of any ray tracing technology.

UL 3DMark Port Royal Ray Tracing Benchmarks

Port Royal was released as an update to UL’s popular 3DMark suite. It is designed to test real-time ray tracing performance of graphics cards that support Microsoft DirectX Raytracing, or DXR. Although DXR is technically compatible with all DX12-class GPUs, the graphics card must have drivers that enable support for the feature.

The Radeon RX 7900 XT, GeForce RTX 3090 Ti, and new GeForce RTX 4070 Ti are tightly grouped here, with only a percentage point or two separating the three cards. The GeForce RTX 4070 Ti technically outscored the Radeon RX 7900 XT, but remember, this ASUS card is hot-clocked and the delta separating the cards is tiny.

DirectX Ray Tracing (DXR) Feature Test

We also tested the cards with UL's DirectX Ray Tracing Feature test. This test is laser-focused on path-tracing performance, and uses few of the card's other resources.
Unlike Port Royal, this test is solely focused on DXR performance. Here, the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti has a clear advantage over the Radeons and previous-gen GeForces, thanks to its architectural enhancements and more-powerful, latest-generation RT cores.

Crytek Neon Noir Benchmarks

The Crytek Neon Noir benchmark has the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti trading blows with the GeForce RTX 3090, but trailing the latest Radeons. The Radeon RX 6000 series cards, however, finish well behind.

VR Benchmarks: VR Mark & Unigine Superposition

Superposition is the latest benchmark from Unigine, powered by the UNIGINE 2 Engine. It offers an array of benchmark modes, targeting gaming workloads as well as VR, with both DirectX and OpenGL code paths. There is an extreme hardware stability test built-in too. Unigine Superposition uses the developer’s unique SSRTGI (Screen-Space Ray-Traced Global Illumination) dynamic lighting technology, along with high quality textures and models, to produce some excellent visuals. We ran Superposition's VR Future benchmark to compare the performance of all of the graphics cards featured here.

Unigine Superposition VR Future Test

In our first VR-related benchmark, the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti lands just behind the previous-gen GeForce RTX 3090 Ti, but well behind the Radeon RX 7900 series cards.

UL VR Mark Blue Room Benchmarks

UL's VRMark is designed to test a PC’s readiness for the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift virtual reality headsets. The benchmark does not, however, require that one of the headsets is attached to the PC to run and it uses an in-house graphics engine and content to ensure comparable results between different platforms. We ran the "Blue Room" VRMark test at defaults settings here, which is currently the most taxing test offered by the tool.


VRMark doesn't reveal anything new. Our results here effectively mirror Unigine Superposition's VR Future test, with the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti finishing just behind NVIDIA's previous-gen flagship.