ASUS GeForce RTX 4070 Dual Review

Source: Tech Power Up added 15th Apr 2023

Introduction

ASUS GeForce RTX 4070 Dual is the company’s most affordable custom-design RTX 4070 offering. The DUAL brand of ASUS has a lot in common with the company’s PRIME brand of motherboards—they are both under the company’s main marquee, unlike the ROG Strix or TUF Gaming lines; and ASUS ensures they directly represent the company well—no corners are cut with product design or quality, but all the essentials are covered. The GeForce RTX 4070 debuting today brings the new “Ada” graphics architecture to an even wider audience in the performance segment, with a starting price of $600, which is exactly what the ASUS RTX 4070 DUAL from this review is priced at. NVIDIA ensured that every board partner has products at this price, and all the RTX 4070 reviews you’ll see today (April 12) can be had at MSRP. We’ll review premium, factory-overclocked variants, including those from ASUS, tomorrow (April 13). Both kinds of cards release to the market on April 13.

The GeForce RTX 4070 is intended for maxed out 1440p gaming, including real time ray tracing; as well as high refresh-rate e-sports gaming at 1440p and 1080p. Gaming at 4K Ultra HD is very much possible, if you can dial down some settings, or take advantage of DLSS, or the new force-multiplier that is DLSS 3. The GeForce “Ada” graphics architecture debuts the third generation of NVIDIA’s groundbreaking RTX real time ray tracing technology, and the fourth generation of its on-die AI acceleration in the form of Tensor cores. These GPUs are built on the new TSMC 5 nm process, and NVIDIA has refined its architecture at various levels, to bring down graphics card PCB complexity and power draw. Take for instance, the memory sub-system, which has been generationally narrowed, but uses faster GDDR6X memory, and is accelerated by larger on-die caches on the GPU.

The RTX 4070 is based on the same “AD104” silicon that the RTX 4070 Ti maxes out, but is heavily cut down. It features 5,888 CUDA cores, 46 RT cores, 184 Tensor cores, 64 ROPs, and 184 TMUs. The memory setup is unchanged from the RTX 4070 Ti—you get 12 GB of 21 Gbps GDDR6X memory across a 192-bit wide memory bus, yielding 504 GB/s of memory bandwidth, which is still higher than the 448 GB/s the previous-generation RTX 3070 manages with its 256-bit memory bus. The core-configuration, particularly the shader count, is identical to that of the RTX 3070, but over a brand new architecture that promises generational performance uplifts.

The ASUS GeForce RTX 4070 Dual draws its name from the dual-fan custom-design cooling solution. Its design is minimalist, with a focus on low noise. If all you care about is the RTX 4070 at MSRP, and you don’t need too many “custom-design” bells and whistles, this is the product ASUS wants you to buy. Its cooler features a pair of Axial-Tech fans with webbed impellers that guide all their airflow axially. Perhaps the biggest design choice ASUS made in favor of end-users, has to be the power connector. This card uses a single 8-pin PCIe power connector, sparing you of the need for a power-adapter to convert PCIe power connectors to 12VHPWR.

GeForce RTX 4070 Market Segment Analysis
	Price	Cores	ROPs	Core Clock	Boost Clock	Memory Clock	GPU	Transistors	Memory
Arc A770	$290	4096	128	2100 MHz	N/A	2187 MHz	ACM-G10	21700M	16 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit
RTX 2080	$310	2944	64	1515 MHz	1710 MHz	1750 MHz	TU104	13600M	8 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit
RTX 3060 Ti	$320	4864	80	1410 MHz	1665 MHz	1750 MHz	GA104	17400M	8 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit
RX 6700 XT	$320	2560	64	2424 MHz	2581 MHz	2000 MHz	Navi 22	17200M	12 GB, GDDR6, 192-bit
RTX 2080 Ti	$420	4352	88	1350 MHz	1545 MHz	1750 MHz	TU102	18600M	11 GB, GDDR6, 352-bit
RTX 3070	$400	5888	96	1500 MHz	1725 MHz	1750 MHz	GA104	17400M	8 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit
RTX 3070 Ti	$500	6144	96	1575 MHz	1770 MHz	1188 MHz	GA104	17400M	8 GB, GDDR6X, 256-bit
RX 6800	$450	3840	96	1815 MHz	2105 MHz	2000 MHz	Navi 21	26800M	16 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit
RX 6800 XT	$510	4608	128	2015 MHz	2250 MHz	2000 MHz	Navi 21	26800M	16 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit
RTX 3080	$550	8704	96	1440 MHz	1710 MHz	1188 MHz	GA102	28000M	10 GB, GDDR6X, 320-bit
RTX 4070	$600	5888	64	1920 MHz	2475 MHz	1313 MHz	AD104	35800M	12 GB, GDDR6X, 192-bit
ASUS RTX 4070 Dual	$600	5888	64	1920 MHz	2475 MHz	1313 MHz	AD104	35800M	12 GB, GDDR6X, 192-bit
RTX 3080 Ti	$750	10240	112	1365 MHz	1665 MHz	1188 MHz	GA102	28000M	12 GB, GDDR6X, 384-bit
RX 6900 XT	$620	5120	128	2015 MHz	2250 MHz	2000 MHz	Navi 21	26800M	16 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit
RX 6950 XT	$680	5120	128	2100 MHz	2310 MHz	2250 MHz	Navi 21	26800M	16 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit
RTX 3090	$800	10496	112	1395 MHz	1695 MHz	1219 MHz	GA102	28000M	24 GB, GDDR6X, 384-bit
RTX 4070 Ti	$800	7680	80	2310 MHz	2610 MHz	1313 MHz	AD104	35800M	12 GB, GDDR6X, 192-bit
RX 7900 XT	$800	5376	192	2000 MHz	2400 MHz	2500 MHz	Navi 31	57700M	20 GB, GDDR6, 320-bit
RTX 3090 Ti	$1000	10752	112	1560 MHz	1950 MHz	1313 MHz	GA102	28000M	24 GB, GDDR6X, 384-bit
RTX 4080	$1150	9728	112	2205 MHz	2505 MHz	1400 MHz	AD103	45900M	16 GB, GDDR6X, 256-bit
RX 7900 XTX	$960	6144	192	2300 MHz	2500 MHz	2500 MHz	Navi 31	57700M	24 GB, GDDR6, 384-bit
RTX 4090	$1600	16384	176	2235 MHz	2520 MHz	1313 MHz	AD102	76300M	24 GB, GDDR6X, 384-bit

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