Is the RTX 4070 good for gaming?

Is the RTX 4070 good for gaming?
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Nvidia’s latest graphics card is at the forefront of the news, so is the RTX 4070 be good for gaming?

Gaming in 2023 requires some serious computing power. Many who take it seriously will expect competitive frame rate speeds in 1080p, and the ability to produce quality graphics all the way up to 4K and even 8K. On top of that there are a tonne of technologies such as DLSS and ray tracing that enhance gaming performance and are expected on the top GPUs.

The good news is that the Lovelace architecture guarantees all this with its 3rd generation Ray Tracing cores, 4th generation Tensor cores and DLSS 3 compatibility. Let’s have a look at how this could translate to performance.

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RTX 4070 performance

Thanks to RTX 4070 specs confirmation we have a sense of what the performance of the RTX 4070 look like, and it’s likely to going to be very good for gaming. If the specs prove true the card will have 12GB of GDDR6X VRAM and 5,888 CUDA cores. These are some pretty high-end specs and suggest good performance all the way up to 4K resolutions, as well as frame rates suitable for competitive play in games such as CS:GO and PUBG.

We have a more precise sense of how the RTX 4070 could perform thanks to some leaks from Videocardz. The website has what it claims got its hands on some slides from Nvidia that compare the performance of the RTX 4070 to other GPUs from the company.

The slides suggest that, with DLSS enable, the performance will be very similar to that of RTX 3080. If this proves true the RTX 4070 will definitely be exceptionally good for gaming, and will likely have some of the best performance available in its price range.

Frequently asked questions

Is the RTX 4070 overkill?

While we have to wait for its official release to know for sure, we reckon the RTX 4070 will be a high-powered mid-range GPU. This means it will not be overkill for most modern games, especially when you get to the higher resolutions.

Will the RTX 4070 be as good as the RTX 4070 Ti?

Ti GPUs are typically more powerful versions of their non-Ti counterparts. This means that it is very likely that the RTX 4070 Ti will be the more powerful card.