ASUS GeForce RTX 4070

The DUAL GeForce RTX 4070 is an MSRP-targeted product, showcasing reference clock frequencies and performance within a 1% margin compared to the Founder's Edition card. With its notable performance in the 2560x1440 resolution range, the ASUS DUAL GeForce RTX 4070 is an fair option for users who desire an elegant design without sacrificing quality. Though not the fastest card on the market, ASUS provides flexibility for customization, allowing an 8% increase in the power limiter to boost the clock speed to 2.9 GHz. Paired with GDDR6 memory running at 23 Gbps, the ASUS DUAL GeForce RTX 4070 offers promising tweakable performance as well, reaching 6% over the founder edition card (but that one tweaks just as well). This card offers three DisplayPort and one HDMI output options, as well as an attractive backplate design. The already impressive factory-tuned performance can be further boosted, particularly when playing games that support DLSS(3). The RTX 4070 excels in providing excellent performance, energy efficiency, and visual quality, positioning itself as a more environmentally friendly alternative to the 4080/4090 graphics cards. With HDMI 2.1 support and a generous 12GB VRAM, the card effortlessly handles high-resolution gaming and intricate creative tasks. While priced similarly to the founder edition, this card is an appealing option for those who value both performance and style. In the end, this is a really proper 4070 baseline product. All AIB partners have a hard time battling that founder edition card from NVIDIA, though, at $599 it is gaming the most silent and great design products with that same baseline performance and tweakability. It's a tough call to make. We, however, find this MSRP model to be among the better ones, and as such it comes recommended (pricing aside from the discussion of course).

Averaged over the 25 games in our test suite, at 1440p resolution, the ASUS RTX 4070 Dual ends up a tiny 1% slower than the NVIDIA RTX 4070 Founders Edition. This is the case for all cards tested today, they are all running slightly lower clocks than the FE, despite all having the same base and boost clock rating, with the same power limit. Binning does play a role in the clocks the NVIDIA Boost algorithm selects, so maybe NVIDIA is putting the best GPUs on the FE, while other AICs reserve those for their factory-overclocked models. Either way, these differences are negligible in daily use, there's no way you'll be able to notice such a tiny difference.

Averaged over the 25 games in our test suite, at 1440p resolution, the ASUS RTX 4070 TUF comes out a meager 1% ahead of the NVIDIA RTX RTX 4070 FE. Other custom designs aren't much faster either, only the MSI Gaming X gains 3%. It seems all vendors were very conservative with their factory overclocks. Compared to last generation's RTX 3070, the performance uplift is 28%—a relatively small gen-over-gen gain (RTX 4090: +64%, RTX 4080: +49%, RTX 4070 Ti: +44%). It is still a substantial improvement, especially when you consider other factors like DLSS 3 and efficiency. Compared to AMD's offerings, the RTX 4070 from ASUS ends up right between the Radeon RX 6800 XT and the RX 6900 XT. AMD hasn't released any Radeon RX 7000 graphics card competitive to the RTX 4070 yet, actually they haven't released any graphics card this year.

ASUS has unveiled an top-notch graphics card that provides equally top-notch performance in the WQHD domain for a balanced gaming experience. The TUF Gaming OC RTX 4070 boasts a quiet default BIOS noise level of 33 DBa and outperforms founder edition cards by a notable 5% in speed, which can be increased to 8% when tweaked. This versatile card offers three DisplayPort and one HDMI output options, as well as an attractive backplate design. The already impressive factory-tuned performance can be further boosted, particularly when playing games that support DLSS(3). The RTX 4070 excels in providing excellent performance, energy efficiency, and visual quality, positioning itself as a more environmentally friendly alternative to the 4080/4090 graphics cards. With HDMI 2.1 support and a generous 12GB VRAM, the card effortlessly handles high-resolution gaming and intricate creative tasks. While priced similarly to the founder edition, this card is an appealing option for those who value both performance and style. The only challenge potential buyers may face is the anticipated $100 price premium and availability. Nonetheless, the card's exceptional features make it a compelling choice for gamers and gurus.