Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Super offers 22% higher core counts than regular RTX 4070 at same $599 MSRP, launches January 17

The Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Super Founders Edition comes in a new matte finish. (Image Source: Nvidia)Nvidia has unveiled the GeForce RTX 4070 Super at CES 2024. The RTX 4070 Super supplants the regular RTX 4070 at the same US$599 price point while offering ~22% more CUDA, Tensor, and RT cores at a 220 W TGP. Nvidia claims that the RTX 4070 Super can beat a 350 W RTX 3090 when DLSS 3 is enabled.

Nvidia has finally taken wraps off new Ada Lovelace desktop GPUs at CES 2024. The GeForce RTX 4070 Super brings considerable hardware changes compared to its non-Super counterpart.

Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Super
The RTX 4070 Super (AD104-350) offers a ~22% increase in CUDA cores (7,168) compared to its RTX 4070 non-Super variant (5,888). According to Nvidia, this increase should afford up to 36 TFLOPs of FP32 performance compared to 20 TFLOPs of the RTX 3070. Correspondingly, we also now get to see 224 4th gen Tensor cores (184 in non-Super) and 56 3rd gen RT cores (46 in non-Super). 

The memory subsystem remains unchanged, however, with 192-bit 12 GB GDDR6X VRAM running at 21 Gbps yielding a total of 504 GBps bandwidth. The 4070 Super also receives a slight bump to the base clock at 1,980 MHz while the boost remains the same as that of the regular RTX 4070 at 2,475 MHz.

According to Nvidia, the RTX 4070 Super at 220 W TGP is able to beat a 350 W RTX 3090 in DLSS 3 titles, while offering more than 2x the performance of the RTX 3070. The RTX 4070 Super is slated to consume 11 W in idle, 16 W during AV1 video playback, and 200 W of average gaming power.

Nvidia also showed a slide comparing the RTX 4070 with DLSS 3 Frame Gen vs the RTX 3070 and the RTX 2070. This comparison is moot considering that frame gen is only possible with Ada Lovelace cards. That being said, the RTX 4070 Super does offer significant frame rate gains over the RTX 3070 in non-frame gen enabled games as well.

The RTX 4070 Super will be available in Founders Edition with a new matte finish and as add-in board (AiB) partner cards from January 17 starting at US$599, the same MSRP as that of the original RTX 4070.

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Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Super relative power with DLSS 3 vs RTX 3090 at 1440p. (Source: Nvidia)
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Vaidyanathan Subramaniam, 2024-01- 8 (Update: 2024-01- 8)