Introduction

Gigabyte GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Gaming OC graphics card is the company’s value custom-design implementation of NVIDIA’s latest performance-segment graphics card from its RTX 40-series “Ada Lovelace” generation. The RTX 4070 Ti is designed to strike a price-performance sweetspot at a starting price of $800 (NVIDIA baseline), while being able to play games at resolutions as high as 4K Ultra HD, where you can benefit from features such as DLSS 3 frame-generation, to nearly max-out the eye-candy of your game. The Gaming OC brand from Gigabyte comes under the main marquee, positioned a notch below the flashy and feature-rich AORUS Gaming products by the company. These cards are designed to cover all the essentials of the GPU for gamers that just want to install the card and get gaming, which is why it is priced close to NVIDIA’s baseline price.

The new GeForce RTX 4070 Ti is originally what would have been the GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB, before NVIDIA decided to cancel and re-brand it into the RTX 4070 Ti, in wake of fierce criticism from gamers and the media regarding the name. NVIDIA originally announced the RTX 4080 12 GB alongside the RTX 4080 16 GB, and memory size was hardly the only differentiator between the two. The 12 GB variant has 21% fewer shaders/RT cores/Tensor cores; and besides the lower memory size, it also has a 25% narrower 192-bit memory interface (which was at the heart of the controversy, given that NVIDIA planned to sell the card originally at $900). This is anyway water under the bridge, as the company re-branded it to the RTX 4070 Ti, and trimmed the starting price down to $800 (which is still higher than the launch price of the RTX 3080). The RTX 4080 16 GB would go on to be called simply the “RTX 4080.”

The new GeForce RTX 4070 Ti debuts NVIDIA’s third silicon based on the “Ada Lovelace” graphics architecture, the 4 nm “AD104,” which the SKU maxes out, enabling all 60 streaming multiprocessors (SM), which works out to 7,680 CUDA cores, 60 RT cores, 240 Tensor cores, 240 TMUs, and 80 ROPs. The card is endowed with 12 GB of GDDR6X memory across a 192-bit memory bus, running at 21 Gbps, which works out to 504 GB/s memory bandwidth (which is exactly half that of the RTX 4090, and two-thirds that of the RTX 3080. NVIDIA improved the memory sub-system at the architecture level with “Ada,” by deploying larger on-die caches at various levels, so one shouldn’t read too much into the generationally reduced memory bandwidth.

The Gigabyte RTX 4070 Ti Gaming OC features a similar design to the company’s RTX 4080 Gaming OC card, but with the WindForce 3X cooler being slimmer at 2.7-slots, compared to 3.5-slots. The cooler still has some premium touches, such as a two-tone metal finish, and some RGB lighting elements around the fan-intakes and the top of the card. You get a small factory-overclock out of the box, with the GPU Boost set at 2640 MHz, compared to 2610 MHz reference. NVIDIA is standardizing the 16-pin ATX 12VHPWR connector across the series, and this SKU gets one that is signal pin keyed to 300 W. This is just a means to tell the graphics card that the connector can supply no more than 300 W continuous, there’s no physical difference with a standard 12VHPWR. An NVIDIA-designed adapter is included, which converts two 8-pin PCIe connectors to one of these. Gigabyte is pricing the RTX 4070 Ti close to the $800 baseline MSRP.