RTX 4070 any good?
daveso
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I've been seeing systems that are affordable with an RTX 4070 installed. I would think it is a lot better than what I have, an RTX 2070 Super, but looking at specs its kind of a dog in the Nvidia 40 series. The 3080 seems as good to a certain extent.
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The 4070 is a good card but priced too high. There has been a lot of confusion about where this card's price will eventually land but it appears to be out now at around USD 600. It's certainly a good upgrade from a 20xx 8GB series GPU from a performance point of view but less compelling for anyone on a 30xx series. The 3060 12GB still represents the best value for rendering imo.
Still, if you're looking to upgrade your whole PC rather than just the GPU and you're happy with the system price, the 4070 won't disappoint compared to what you currently have. Without knowing what components make up the rest of your system it's hard to recommend anything specifically but are you absolutely sure you need to throw away your entire PC rather than just upgrade?
Nvidia initially tried to sell the 4070 as a 4080 with a price close to $1000 at one point and, even with the price reductions, it isn't going to be popular. You won't have a problem finding one!
the system I have has been a real PITA pretty much since I got it. Thing is, I cant find the problem, other than multiple. It would need to be gutted anyway, so I started looking at new. Its not bad when it works, with 32gig DDR4 3200 ram, 4TB HD and a 512gig OS SSD, which I;ve been trying to upgrade to a 1TB, but I can;t get that to boot ever. Not sure what I'm doing wrong with trying to get an OS on it that works. It renders pretty well, but given the problems, I spend way too much time trying figure out whats up and not doing anything else. The 3060 systems are very reasonably priced for sure, and would be better for DAZ rendering with that 12gig ram. I figured I would by a 3080 system which would be really nice and would still last for a few more years, even with its age, but the prices have yet to drop much. A few hundred dollars. Still in $2000 + range, but I just saw an MSI 4070 system for $1900.
I have a sneaking suspicion that the 4070 will out-perform the 3080 for rendering but I haven't seen any bench tests online to confirm or disprove this yet. The 3080 has around 50% more CUDA and RT cores than the 4070 but the 4070 architecture is far, far superior and I think it would edge out the 3080 for workstation use.
At the end of the day, it's a Lovelace card with 12GB and, whilst overpriced in my opinion (aren't they all these days!), it's a sound choice.
Here are some trustworthy reviews of the RTX 4070:
https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/nvidia-geforce-rtx-4070-review
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/04/rtx-4070-review-an-ideal-gpu-for-anyone-who-skipped-the-graphics-card-shortage/
The RTX 4070 is supposed to perform like the RTX 3080, with much lower power consumption and at a lower price. The RTX 4070 is supposed to cost $599, but the price may go down as the card becomes available.
thanks. I just read a review at TechRadar which indicated the 4070 is slightly faster in the creative realm than the 3080. Cheaper though. So it appears the 4070 would be a decent buy. Interesting it has the same CUDA cores as the 3070.