PNY GeForce RTX 4070 XLR8 Review

Source: Tech Power Up added 15th Apr 2023

Introduction

PNY GeForce RTX 4070 XLR8 is the company’s premium custom-design graphics card based on NVIDIA’s most affordable RTX 40-series Ada graphics card to date. The RTX 4070 is gunning to be the best-selling graphics model in the crucial Spring-Summer PC shopping season, where people upgrade their rigs for the break. XLR8 (pronounced “accelerate”), is PNY’s premium gamer-focused brand of graphics cards, PC memory, and SSDs. You can expect all the bells and whistles of a high-end graphics card, including RGB LED lighting, a powerful VRM setup with more tuning headroom, and high-end product design in general.

The GeForce RTX 4070 is designed to dominate maxed-out AAA gaming at resolutions of up to 1440p, and high refresh-rate e-sports gameplay up to that resolution. It is very much capable of 4K Ultra HD gaming, but that requires dialing down some eye-candy, or judiciously using DLSS or the newer DLSS 3 Frame Generation feature, something that previous-generation high-end graphics cards being cleared out of stores around the $700-mark, lack. As a performance-segment graphics card, the RTX 4070 is also significantly more power-efficient than previous-gen high-end GPUs.

The GeForce Ada graphics architecture debuts the 3rd generation of NVIDIA RTX, the path breaking consumer graphics technology that combines real-time ray traced elements with conventional raster 3D graphics, to significantly improve gaming realism. Ada introduces significantly faster CUDA cores that run at higher clock speeds; 3rd generation RT cores with even more ray intersection performance that reduces the performance impact of enabling ray tracing; and 4th generation Tensor cores that support newer math formats.

The GeForce RTX 4070 is carved out of the same 5 nm AD104 silicon as the RTX 4070 Ti, but while the Ti maxes it out, the RTX 4070 is significantly cut down, featuring just 46 out of 60 streaming multiprocessors (SM) physically present, which works out to 5,888 CUDA cores, 184 Tensor cores, 46 RT cores, and 184 TMUs. The ROP count has been reduced to 64 from 80, although thankfully, the memory sub-system remains untouched. You get the same 12 GB of 21 Gbps GDDR6X memory across a 192-bit memory bus, which the RTX 4070 Ti has.

The PNY RTX 4070 XLR8 is priced at $650, a $50 premium over the NVIDIA MSRP, which is why it did not feature among yesterday’s reviews. The card in this review is the non-OC variant of the RTX 4070 XLR8, which sticks to NVIDIA-reference clock speeds, with the price-premium covering for more features, such as RGB and superior VRM. There is an even pricier XLR8 OC Edition card that’s priced slightly higher. With the RTX 4070, NVIDIA allowed its board partners to opt for the legacy 8-pin PCIe power connector instead of the modern 16-pin 12VHPWR. PNY chose the former, which should fit the 200 W typical graphics power (TGP) for the RTX 4070, and even provide the convenience of the more familiar power connector.

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
PNY RTX 4070 XLR8	$650	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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