Review PNY RTX 4070 Review: Single 8-Pin, No 16-Pin 12VHPWR

[Admin]

The PNY RTX 4070 delivers similar performance to Nvidia's reference design, but with higher temperatures and noise levels. The only real draw is its use of a single 8-pin power connector.

PNY RTX 4070 Review: Single 8-Pin, No 16-Pin 12VHPWR : Read more

 

[Deleted member 2950210]

Yet another disappointing card, in a series filled with overpriced mediocrities - 4090 being the only exception.

 

[atomicWAR]

Great write up. I expected worse performance from the rumors floating around the web that single 8 pin cards were less performant. Yes its average clocks were a hair less at 2738 vs 2745 but that can be down to the silicon lottery at that point. Still not thrilled with the price with the alloted vram but all in all I am pleasantly surprised the card performs as well as it does.

Yet another disappointing card, in a series filled with overpriced mediocrities - 4090 being the only exception.

Yes and no...price and vram yes but as stated performance is decent compared to the 12vhpwr cards. But your not wrong the 4090 is the only real exception this gen. 60 percent performance for a 6% mark up. Seems fair to me...the rest of the stack not so much.

 

[Deleted member 2950210]

Yes and no...price and vram yes but as stated performance is decent compared to the 12vhpwr cards.

Unfortunately, decent performance means little to nothing, when it comes down to just 12 GBs of RAM.

That's just not a decent amount for today's standards.

Trust me, i've owned a 4070 Ti for approximately 5 months and had the opportunity to run some extensive tests. Bottom line, i expected more.

At 4K max settings, it gets kicked out of games like Far Cry 6 (released on 2021) and Resident Evil 4 (remake), due to insufficient memory.

If that's the kind of performance we get from a Ti, i don't expect a 4070 to be any better.

Also a factor: is it gonna be any good for the games that will be released in these next few months? I don't think so.

 

[atomicWAR]

Unfortunately, decent performance means little to nothing, when it comes down to just 12 GBs of RAM.

That's just not a decent amount for today's standards.

Trust me, i've owned a 4070 Ti for approximately 5 months and had the opportunity to run some extensive tests. Bottom line, i expected more.

At 4K max settings, it gets kicked out of games like Far Cry 6 (released on 2021) and Resident Evil 4 (remake), due to insufficient memory.

If that's the kind of performance we get from a Ti, i don't expect a 4070 to be any better.

Also a factor: is it gonna be any good for the games that will be released in these next few months? I don't think so.

Agreed. Vram needs a boost.

 

[mrv_co]

I gave up on waiting for a 7700 XT and picked one of these up since it fit nicely in my SFF case without any modification or additional expenditures. It’s a solid step up over my 5700 XT for 1440p gaming. No complaints so far.

 

[Ricky Zeng]

I gave up on waiting for a 7700 XT and picked one of these up since it fit nicely in my SFF case without any modification or additional expenditures. It’s a solid step up over my 5700 XT for 1440p gaming. No complaints so far.

I'm in a very similar position. I got a 6600XT after traded-in my RX580 during the peak of pandemic / mining craze. Now waiting for a 7700/7800 as upgrade but the PNY 4070 dual fan version is really tempting, as it's one of very few that fits my A4 SFF case yet delivers good performance gains.

I reckon tech product (CPU/GPU, or any kind of prime movers) advancement comes in from two aspects: raw power, and efficiency. If we got improvement from both that's real lucky and not happening all the time. But I'm content as long as we got improvement from at least either one. Similar performance as 6800XT with way less power draw and smaller form factor? Count me in.

 

[Karo96]

Unfortunately, decent performance means little to nothing, when it comes down to just 12 GBs of RAM.

That's just not a decent amount for today's standards.

Trust me, i've owned a 4070 Ti for approximately 5 months and had the opportunity to run some extensive tests. Bottom line, i expected more.

At 4K max settings, it gets kicked out of games like Far Cry 6 (released on 2021) and Resident Evil 4 (remake), due to insufficient memory.

If that's the kind of performance we get from a Ti, i don't expect a 4070 to be any better.

Also a factor: is it gonna be any good for the games that will be released in these next few months? I don't think so.

But it's not a 4K card.
We can agree on that it should offer more Vram for future proofing. And the price is a little to steep. But a card that draws less than 200 Watts on a 1440p system is very welcome.

 

[Winterson]

The PNY RTX 4070 delivers similar performance to Nvidia's reference design, but with higher temperatures and noise levels. The only real draw is its use of a single 8-pin power connector.

PNY RTX 4070 Review: Single 8-Pin, No 16-Pin 12VHPWR : Read more

It is also the most powerful graphics card that is a dual slot one. All the more powerful graphics card eat up 3 slots with their width. My alternative to the RTX 470 was to buy a new computer that had space for a 2.2 or wider video card.

$3,300 for a new computer or $600 for the RTX 4070 was not a difficult choice to make. The new computer would also force my use of Windows 11 and I will buy an Apple computer before giving up my privacy to Microsoft and its minions.