• SpaceX nears first Starship orbital launch: The company announced that the first flight to space of the towering rocket “is trending towards the third week of April,” with a potential launch as early as Monday. That depends on regulatory approval from the FAA, but the company could reportedly receive its launch license in the next day or so. – SpaceX / Ars Technica
• Relativity retires Terran 1 to go ‘all in’ on Terran R development, in a substantial shift in the company’s 3D-printing-first strategy that includes introducing more traditional manufacturing methods into building the rockets. Relativity revealed a substantial update on Terran R’s design, with a focus on making the first stage reusable rather than the entire rocket. – CNBC
• SpaceX launches 23rd mission of the year carrying Intelsat satellite, IS-402, successfully into orbit on a Falcon 9 rocket. Its booster landed successfully for a fourth time. – Intelsat
• FCC debuts Space Bureau as the regulator looks to centralize its management of satellite policy and licensing under a single office. – FCC
• Rocket Lab shifts NASA satellite launches to New Zealand from Virginia, in order to make sure its Electron rockets can deliver the TROPICS satellites into orbit in time to help provide data for this year’s hurricane season. – Rocket Lab
• Planet expands data products, deploying a pair of new programs “focused on increasing accessibility and scaling solutions for users.” In an expansion of its “Planetary Variables” product, the company is making more available data feeds such as “Roads and Building Detection” and “Soil Water Content.” – Planet
• Viasat connects ground antennas into Microsoft’s Azure Orbital cloud network, saying the addition of the five different locations around the world will improve “high-speed connectivity” with Microsoft’s platform. – Viasat
• Microsoft, Ball and Loft to work on SDA’s NExT satellite program, which will fly 10 satellites with experimental payloads for the Space Development Agency. – Ball Aerospace
• Slingshot expands tracking capabilities with plans for a network for “more than 200 sensors across more than 20 sites globally” to track objects in low Earth orbit. – Slingshot Aerospace
• SpaceX senior director talks about how its Dragon spacecraft experience prepares the company for Starship: Stuart Keech, senior director of Dragon Engineering, said the company is taking “the lessons learned and the best parts of both” its Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon capsule to make Starship “an ultimately better and more capable vehicle.” – Supercluster

• Canadian satellite communications startup Kepler raises $92 million, in a round led by IA Ventures. The company has raised over $200 million to date, from investors including Costanoa Ventures, Canaan Partners, Tribe Capital and BDC Capital’s Industrial Innovation Venture Fund. – Kepler Communications
• Euroconsult finds 2.6 billion people remain unconnected by broadband services, with an analysis finding a “significant” opportunity for service providers to build on the $74 billion market in the decade ahead. – Euroconsult
• European quarterly investment in space outstripped the US for the first time, according to U.K.-based firm Seraphim’s Q1 report. Per the firm’s findings, Q1 saw $565 million in space investment in Europe, versus $456 million in the U.S. – Seraphim
• Raytheon partners with SpiderOak to enhance satellite cybersecurity, with the strategic one-year collaboration centered around developing “a new generation of zero-trust security systems.” – Raytheon
• Inmarsat partners with Taiwanese chipmaker MediaTek in three year agreement to develop technologies for the satellite direct-to-device market. – SpaceNews

• K. Guru Gowrappan named Viasat President, joining the satellite operator from his previous role as CEO of Verizon Media Group, the media division of Verizon Communications. – Viasat
• Molly Carter hired as director of sales and marketing at COMSPOC, the space situational awareness company. Carter previously was head of business development and operations strategy for Avalara Corporation. – COMSPOC
• Space Florida begins search for new president and CEO: Following Frank DiBello’s retirements, the state authority is looking “nationwide” for a new leader to manage its economic development portfolio. – SpaceFlorida

• Nasdaq suspends Virgin Orbit stock trading: As the now bankrupt rocket builder begins an auction process, Nasdaq announced public trading of the company’s shares would be suspended on April 13, with the exchange also looking to delist the stock. Virgin Orbit is looking to conduct an expedited sale in bankruptcy court, seeking to begin a bidding process in early May. – Virgin Orbit / SpaceNews
• Astra gets 6-month Nasdaq listing extension, avoiding a potential delisting as the company works to keep its stock publicly traded and turn around its business. – Astra
• Astra issues notices to unnamed broker-deals over ‘potential illegal short selling’ in the company’s stock, saying its investigation with ShareIntel found “trade imbalances” that “deeply concerned” the company that it was “the target of a market manipulation scheme.” – Astra

• Apr. 14: Arianespace’s Ariane 5 launches JUICE spacecraft from French Guiana.
• Apr. 17-20: Space Symposium conference in Colorado.
• Apr. 17: SpaceX’s Starship launches first orbital attempt from Texas, pending final readiness and regulatory approval.
• Apr. 18: SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy launches ViaSat 3 and Astranis satellites from Florida.
• Apr. 19: SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launches Starlink mission from Florida.

GeForce RTX 4070 Founders Edition (and MSRP AIB) reviews are up.

Below is the compilation of all the reviews that have been posted so far. I will be updating this continuously throughout the day with the conclusion of each publications and any new review links. This will be sorted alphabetically.

Written Articles

Babeltechreviews

This has been an enjoyable exploration evaluating the new RTX 4070 FE. Overall, it is the best 40 series value for your money if the current adoption rate of DLSS and DLSS 3 continues. The performance gain is stunning. Without this technology, we can compare the RTX 4070 to the RTX 3080 from the previous generation with very distinct differences. Nvidia has improved performance with supplemental tech like DLSS 3, the architecture, cooling, and most of all, the pricing.
The RTX 4070 is compact and amazingly efficient compared to the RTX 30 series and its 40 series brothers. The idle fan stop is huge for us, and support for AV1 encoding is stellar for a lot of streamers at this price.
The RTX 4070 performed above the RTX 3080 in most cases and well above the RTX RTX 3070. The gap widened significantly with frame generation/DLSS 3 – So much so that this is a no-brainer. However, this is not a “wow” with the raster performance jump over the previous generation. Instead, the RTX 4070 is more efficient, more compact, and has much better features especially if you are still on a 10-series card. This is a worthy point in time with a card that is finally available at a reasonable price as a poster child for the generational leaps Nvidia is making with its technology and DLSS 3.
There is no early adopter woe here as there are many AAA titles to enjoy – right now – with DLSS 3 enabled, unlike with ray tracing at its launch. However, If DLSS 3 means little to you, we would hesitate to recommend upgrading from an RTX 3080 to an RTX 4070. However, the RTX 3070 user base will see enough significant performance gains to be able to make this a worthwhile consideration.
For a couple hundred dollars more you could buy an RTX 4070 Ti or a current AMD offering – but there is no card currently in this class and price that comes close to competing. The value of your dollar here will make any gamer happy. Especially at 1080p and 1440p, this card is a beast ready to serve your needs.

Dexterto

The RTX 4070 is notable for two things – cost per frame and power efficiency. Much like the RTX 40-series GPUs before it, the wattage efficiency gains when compared to the 3080 are nothing short of staggering. You get around the same levels of performance at 200W on the RTX 4070, versus the RTX 3080’s 320W.
The RTX 4070’s costs-per-frame analysis also tells an interesting story of the higher-end RTX 40-series graphics cards thus far. To calculate this, we added up the average benchmarked framerates of all GPUs in our standardized tests and divided it by the MSRP costs of the GPU in order to get an average frame-per-dollar ratio.
RTX 4070 – 3.0 frames per-dollar
RTX 3080 – 2.3 frames per-dollar
RTX 4070 Ti – 2.7 frames per-dollar
RTX 4080 – 3.4 frames per-dollar
Interestingly, we also compared this against the RTX 3080, if you were to pick one up brand-new today for $699, it ended up at 2.3 frames per dollar. While the RTX 4070 may be more expensive than its previous-generation counterpart, adjusted for inflation, the MSRP cost of the RTX 3070 would have been around $582 today.
We were unable to add the RTX 4090 to the cost-per-frame calculations due to benchmarks not being as standard with our current testing system, therefore it would not be fair to compare the two.
For those who have an older RTX 10 or 20-series graphics card, the RTX 4070 is an attractive upgrade, and offers great performance at 4K, 1440p, and 1080p. It is essentially an RTX 3080 with some extra VRAM and DLSS 3 goodies crammed into it. However, if you already own an RTX 30-series GPU, the jump in performance will be pretty disappointing.
The RTX 4070 is yet another solid entry into the RTX 40-series lineup. It offers an accessible entry point and access to future-forward features like DLSS 3. However, its pricing remains key. At $599, it is a competitive GPU, at any price above that, you may wish to look at other options on the market.

Digital Foundry Article

Digital Foundry Video

The concept of value has come to define the latest generation of graphics cards, with consumers concerned and angry that this new generation of GPUs doesn't offer the same balance of price and performance as the last generation. Perhaps the blame for this can be placed on Nvidia's profit margins - but it's equally the case that we're living through a period of shocking inflation and a far higher cost of production on cutting-edge semiconductors.
The RTX 4070 does compare favourably in terms of price/performance vs the RTX 3070 - you're typically getting in the region of 30 percent of extra performance for 20 percent more money, in addition to 50 percent more memory and access to DLSS 3 frame generation. It's just a shame that the 'more money' part of that sentence is in there - but this is not the first time we've had a price hike on a 70-class GPU. In fact, it happens more often than not. There was a real world price increase between GTX 970 and GTX 1070, and it happened again with the arrival of RTX 2070 which retailed for a baffling $529 back in 2018.
Up against the RTX 3080, the new card is generally on-par or just a touch slower, but does have the odd surprise or two up its sleeve and of course, there's more memory, improved efficiency and DLSS 3. There is an increase in value then, but it's clearly nowhere near as dramatic as the RTX 30-series cards mentioned here were back in the day. I mean, the 3070 delivered nigh-on 2080 Ti performance - the $500 product replaced the last-gen $1200 offering. By contrast, we now have a $599 GPU effectively replacing last-gen's $699 offering, which represents a significant slowing of progress.
Of course, the discussion here does overlook how consumers are likely to consider the latest graphics card generations. An owner of an RTX 30-series graphics card will likely hold onto it for a year or two more. It's the users of 10-series and 20-series GPUs that will be taking a look at this new offering. There, at least, there are big improvements to gaming performance. Even without factoring in DLSS 3, there's a circa 2x increase in performance (though gains vary more significantly when RT is factored out of the equation) - and unless AMD can come up with something more compelling, it's the defacto upgrade for owners of GTX 1070/Ti, RTX 2070 and 2070 Super and perhaps even the RTX 2080 - which launched at $699. We'll add that card to the benchmark tables in due course, but it's only a touch faster than the 2070 Super.
It's perhaps difficult to rave about the RTX 4070 in the same way we did about so many of the Ampere cards of the last generation, but we are at least starting to see proportionately more value returned to the user as we move down the RTX 40-series stack. And to be clear, RTX 3080-level performance is still pretty incredible. A $600 GPU is basically giving you rasterisation performance around 70 to 80 percent better than a PS5 or Xbox Series X, and that's before you include DLSS, improved RT performance and frame generation. While we've benched this card primarily with 1440p high frame-rate gaming in mind, take a look at the 4K results, especially with DLSS 2 and DLSS 3 factored in - this is still capable of some exceptional performance on an Ultra HD panel.
The RTX 4070 won't set the world on fire and it's hardly a love letter from Nvidia to the gamer - but it's certainly a capable piece of kit. In a world where RTX 3080 continues to hold its original 2020 pricing, the cost of the RTX 4070 is fine - if not exceptional - and its no-fuss form factor and frugal power consumption are positives too. And with the arrival of Cyberpunk 2077's RT Overdrive upgrade, there is the sense that PC gaming is once again reaching for the stars, and with decent settings management, RTX 4070 can still deliver a worthwhile experience.

Guru3D

The RTX 4070 is a graphics card that can waves in the gaming world due to its rendering quality and gaming performance when combined with DLSS3 frame generation. The RTX 4070 provides a bit more value for the money. It is a well-balanced card that can handle gaming at 4K resolution, although it is targeted towards WQHD. Compared to AMD's offerings, the Nvidia GPU struggles to keep up with the Radeon RX 7900 XT, but it still has many positive aspects. DLSS (3) and ray tracing features work exceptionally well, AMD cannot match Nvidia in this regard. The RTX 4070 is an excellent option for gamers who play at UWHD, QHD, and even UHD monitor resolutions.
The old rasterizer engine breaks right through the previous limit of extreme performance. The RTX 40 series now has a new generation of Ray tracing and Tensor cores that are more powerful. So, do not let the specific RT and Tensor core counts fool you; it's all about how much performance one unit offers. Since they are close to the shader engine, they have become more efficient, which shows. Tensor cores are harder to measure, but from what we have seen, everything seems to be in good shape, as DLSS3 shows exciting values
The GeForce RTX 4070 founder edition graphics card offers nice performance and visual quality, adding to that improved power efficiency and low thermals, making it an energy-friendly option. It effortlessly handles high-resolution gaming and creative workflows, the VRAM capacity (12GB) we deem is very acceptable. When choosing between the RTX 4070 and Radeon RX 7900 XT, it's important to consider factors such as raytracing performance and DLSS3, which the RTX 4070 excels at. However, a Radeon RX 7900 XT offers much faster rasterizer engine performance with an additional L3 cache, making it a strong(er) contender for the RTX 4070. The GeForce RTX 4070 is priced at $200 lower, so perhaps it offers more value. In this respect, we feel the card is competing more with the 6800/6900 XT than the 7900XT, though. Performance-wise, you can compare the card with RTX 3070 Ti / 3080 performance levels depending on where you measure. Overall, the RTX 4070 series edition is an interesting option for those looking for a visually appealing graphics card, as the founder editions sure look nice, also. This graphics card has plenty of oomph up-to even Ultra HD gaming (especially with DLSS3 / Frame generation enabled) with the option for a mild overclock. As such it comes recommended. Pricing, however, remains a sore point

Hot Hardware

The MSRP for GeForce RTX 4070 series cards starts at $599, which is on-par with the RTX 3070 Ti, but $100 more than the RTX 3070. At that price point, the GeForce RTX 4070 will be battling a wide array of cards currently, from the 3070 Ti and 3080, to the Radeon RX 6800 and 6900 XT, give or take a few bucks depending on deals, rebates, and what have you. There’s definitely stiff competition in this price bracket and looking back through the GeForce RTX 4070’s performance it’s not likely to compel anyone with an upper-midrange GPU from the previous gen to upgrade.
However, for owners of the GeForce RTX 20-series or older Radeons, the GeForce RTX 4070 is a relatively affordable way to get into an Ada-based graphics card, and better enjoy the benefits of ray tracing, DLSS 3, and other benefits of the architecture, like AV1 encoding. In our graphics and game tests the GeForce RTX 4070 was clearly superior to the RTX 3070 Ti, which is where you’d expect it to land, but it shined a bit brighter in the compute and creator workloads.
For 1080p or 1440p gamers, the GeForce RTX 4070 is a relatively affordable, power-friendly way to score a current-gen GPU with a leading edge feature set. Its 12GB of memory may be a limiting factor in the future as games get more complex and visual fidelity increases, but as it stands today the GeForce RTX 4070 offers huge leaps in efficiency and good performance. If you’re looking to upgrade a previous-gen system with a modern GPU or are building a new, mainstream system, the GeForce RTX 4070 is a solid mid-range option.

Igor's Lab

The GeForce RTX 4070 is a highly interesting mid-range graphics card as long as you ignore the price. Therefore, NVIDIA has put some pressure on the board partners to also offer at least one model with a price that corresponds to the RRP. Of course, the shortcomings in the technical implementation, including the limitation of the power limit to 200 watts, can be argued about. Of course, you can easily do without RGB, light metal and other optical extras if the price is right.
To play reasonably performant games, the 200 watts are also easily enough, because you can reach or even beat a GeForce RTX 3080 10GB, of course depending on the game and resolution. That’s the good side. However, the up to 20 watts more of an overclockable card are quite well invested money, because the 10% more energy can be converted into up to 10% more performance in some situations, such as DLSS, when the tensor cores are also fully utilized. However, the advantage in terms of screening performance is much smaller. However, the effects of the higher power consumption are also more noticeable in the Min FPS than in the pure average and that’s where it gets interesting again.
The GeForce RTX 4070 is an excellent card in Full HD when it comes to highest frame rates and is also well suited for WQHD. However, smart upscaling will have to be considered in Ultra HD at the latest, and that’s where DLSS comes into play. Meanwhile, games like “The Last of Us Part 1” (TLOU) even subjectively look better in Ultra HD with DLSS than native Ultra HD. NVIDIA can definitely use its advantages here, which DLSS 2.x also offers purely optically. However, if a game supports DLSS 3.0 and you would be stuck in the unplayable FPS range without Super Sampling, then this can even be the lifeline to playability. You can’t improve latencies with it, but not every genre is as latency-bound as various shooters. For TLOU, I would have liked to see DLSS 3.0, but you can’t have everything.
You get all the advantages of the Ada architecture starting at 659 Euros (MSRP cards) and could be quite satisfied with that in the context of the current price spiral, if it weren’t for the memory expansion and the narrow memory interface, which I had already noted in the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti. Yes, that might be enough for WQHD at the moment, but games like TLOU unfortunately show us that resources are being used more and more wastefully and the memory could be full faster than you can say pug. We can already see: So there is always something. Thus, you can currently still get along very well with it under WQHD, only in Ultra HD there are games that already consider the given 12 GB too puny due to various HD texture packs. This can be seen either way, but it could have been avoided if the AD104 had been designed differently. Two memory controllers are simply missing here, but who am I telling.

KitGuru Article

KitGuru Video

Overall efficiency of the RTX 4070 is in-line with the RTX 4070 Ti. On average, at 1440p we found the non-Ti card drew 194.1W, so just slightly below its rated 200W TGP. That's about 80% of the power draw of the 4070 Ti, while offering 82% of the performance, so the 4070 is just a hair more efficient overall. It's not able to match the RTX 4080 in terms of performance per Watt, but against the RTX 3080, it offers similar performance for over 100W less power, resulting in a 67% boost to efficiency compared to that last-gen GPU.
All told, my opinion on the RTX 4070 is generally pretty similar to that of the RTX 4070 Ti – it's a reasonable GPU, but it's hard to be more effusive than that. On the one hand, it offers similar gaming performance to the RTX 3080 10GB, but with a couple extra gigs of VRAM, significantly less power and with the bonus of DLSS 3 support.
Then again, an extra 15-20% performance over the RTX 3070 Ti is hardly much to get excited about, in fact it is pretty lacklustre it has to be said. That's on top of an 11% price hike over the £529 MSRP for the 3070 Ti, negating a lot of that performance improvement. Cost per frame is just not moving forward from the previous generation, in fact several deals on RDNA 2 GPUs result in a better cost per frame for the likes of the RX 6700 XT and RX 6800 XT than what we get from the RTX 4070, though admittedly RDNA 2's ray tracing performance is a fair bit behind the 4070.
We do have to wonder about the longevity of the 12GB framebuffer too. A lot has happened in the last few months and several titles – including The Last of Us Part 1, Hogwarts Legacy, and Forspoken – are now causing real problems for 8GB cards, including the 3070 and 3070 Ti. As more games shift beyond the cross-gen period, having large amounts of VRAM is only going to be a benefit as developers leverage what's available on the Series X and PS5. It will be interesting to look back in 2-3 years and see how the land lies with the 4070 and its 12GB VRAM.
Ultimately, if you're hanging on to a 10-series or perhaps 20-series GPU and want to spend around £600 on a new card, right now the 4070 is probably your best bet – though we are yet to see what RDNA 3 will do in this price bracket. The 4070 won't go down as a classic, owing to the relatively weak performance improvement versus the previous generation, but it's an OK GPU. No more, no less.

LanOC

The latest in Nvidia’s Ada Lovelace architecture wasn’t a big departure from the RTX 4070 Ti above it, mostly just cut down and with its clock speeds lowered. But with that what stood out to me more than anything in my testing was the power usage and overall efficiency of the card. You have performance that is competing with last generations RTX 3080 but power draw at its peak and averaged across a variety of tests lower than the RTX 3060 Ti. The performance-to-power comparison is only better with Nvidia’s highest-end cards, the 4090 and 4080. That efficiency helped them drop back down to a traditional card size, not the crazy size of the 4080 and 4090 Founders Editions. Even with the smaller card, however, the RTX 4070 Founders Edition impressed on all of its cooling tests and noise tests. Nvidia hit the sweet spot for performance, size, power, noise, and temperatures, and with that, this could be a great SFF card.
The overall performance comparison is a lot more nuanced. Like I said before the 4070 does run right with the RTX 3080, in fact at 1080p in our tests it was a touch faster with the 3080 pulling away as the resolution goes up. But like with the RTX 4070 Ti, it is the ray tracing and DLSS performance that is most impressive. In games that supported it, the 4070 was about to step up and be very capable at 4k while running ray tracing even. To complicate things though, the competition (AMD) isn’t on the same level when it comes to ray tracing and their version of DLSS (FSR) but when it comes to raw rastering performance the 6800 XT which is priced less than the RTX 4070 is faster and the 6950 XT which is most expensive but still close in pricing is even faster than that.
I’ve kind of touched on it already but let's get to pricing. The RTX 4070 Founders Edition and other stock-clocked cards will be hitting stores tomorrow at an MSRP of $599. On the AMD side, the 6800 XT is currently selling for $539-$579 and the 6950 XT are running $629-$679. On the Nvidia side, the cheapest non-refurb RTX 3080 on Newegg is $699 with most at $898 and higher. So if we only look at the RTX 3080 the new RTX 4070 is a great deal especially once you add in DLSS 3 which isn’t available on the 3080. The AMD cards however complicate things. For raw raster performance, those are a great value in comparison, but that is before you put a value on the ray tracing performance and DLSS. Overall I would love to see the RTX 4070 come in lower competing with the 6800 XT. But if ray tracing and DLSS/FSR are your main focus and I do believe in the future those are going to be key to gaming performance the RTX 4070 starts to become an option.

OC3D Article

OC3D Video

Whenever you look at a new graphics card purchase the main factor to consider is nearly always price. Nothing in your rig will give you such an obvious and immediate return than spending a little extra on your GPU. Faster drives eventually get slowed down by the OS. Faster processors only really show up in specific, heavy-loading scenarios. But graphical horsepower, that's instant, immediate and clearly noticeable in every gaming scenario.
The pricing of graphics cards in recent years has been higher than Everest thanks to supply issues and the global financial crisis. Additionally some of the newer cards have so much new technology inside them that there is a level of early adopter cost built in too. The newest addition to the Nvidia 4000 series, the RTX 4070, is priced much more competitively than a lot of their recent launches, partly because the world has somewhat got back to normal, but also partly because Nvidia have designed it more for those of you who game at 1440P rather than 4K.
That doesn't seem as crazy as it might. 4K gaming, whilst it's the buzzword for people trying to sell you new hardware, is still a rarity for the majority of people and 1440P is actually the sweet spot, where you get much higher visual fidelity than 1080P, without requiring a trip to Fort Knox to obtain the funding necessary to do it justice. Many people have a 4K panel and tolerate 40 FPS because that's somehow 'better' than running a less-kudos inspiring 1440P but getting 70 FPS average.
For the sake of equality and an apples-to-apples comparison we tested the RTX 4070 FE on both 1440 and 4K, and our graphs are sorted by average FPS in the 4K resolution. That's something to bear in mind if you're the type of person to merely glance at our graphs. Even so we think the RTX 4070 is much closer to the RTX 4070 Ti than we expected it to be, especially given the price difference. Although it's not the be-all and end-all of gaming tests, we think the fact that this card, specifically not aimed at 4K gamers, still got over 60 FPS in Cyberpunk 2077 with RT and DLSS turned on speaks volumes about how good the underlying performance of the card is.
If you've been itching to get on the DLSS 3 bandwagon with a 4000 series card then the Nvidia RTX 4070 FE is the perfect sweet-spot between price and performance. Very close to the RTX 4070 Ti but with a much more attractive MSRP of £589 and thus wins our OC3D Gamers Choice Award.

PC Perspective

NVIDIA has once again released a xx70 GPU that is about the equal of the previous-gen xx80 card, and it offers better RTX and DLSS support as well. The MSRP is $100 less than the RTX 3080 launch price of $699, but $599 for a xx70 card is still not going to have people dancing and singing in the streets. Or on TikTok or whatever. It has been more than 2.5 years since the RTX 3080 launched, after all.
Inflation is real, people. I too remember a time when $600 bought a flagship. But we don’t live in that world anymore, and unless AMD releases a Radeon RX 7000 Series competitor at this price level we are simply looking at what the current generation has to offer at $600. The state-of-the-art, if you will. And art is subjective. Money is not.

PC World

The GeForce RTX 4070 delivers exceptional 1440p gaming performance in even the most strenuous games, with best-in-class ray tracing performance if you want to turn those cutting-edge lighting features on. Nvidia’s killer software stack enhances every aspect of the GPU, from creation to streaming to gaming, with features like Nvidia Reflex, Broadcast, RTX Video Super Resolution, and DLSS 3 Frame Generation truly improving your day-to-day experience. If you found yourself nodding along to our defense of the 4070 Ti by a 1440p gamer, you’re the prime audience for the $200-cheaper RTX 4070.
The RTX 4070 also supports AV1 encoding, unlike previous-gen GPUs, while its incredible power efficiency let Nvidia make its Founders Edition model nice and tiny. It’ll fit into most any system.
It’s not a slam dunk though. Nvidia’s decision to equip the RTX 4070 with a 192-bit bus and 12GB of memory prevent us from being able to recommend it for long-term 4K gaming, especially with memory requirements only rising in modern games. (We applaud the bump in memory from 8GB to 12GB, but $600 graphics cards really should have 16GB or more in 2023.)
As I said right up top, the $599 GeForce RTX 4070 is the only current Nvidia 40-series graphics card potentially worth your money aside from the flagship RTX 4090. That’s because Nvidia didn’t jack its price as painfully as the $800 RTX 4070 Ti and $1,200 RTX 4080, not because it’s a good value. The $599 RTX 4070 is $100 more than its predecessor, and $100 less than the RTX 3080. In most games, the RTX 3080 trades blow or is a handful of frames faster than the RTX 4070. Sure, the RTX 4070’s power efficiency and DLSS 3 Frame Gen features are deeply impressive indeed, but in raw gaming performance, Nvidia’s 40-series continues to offer stagnant gen-on-gen value, 2.5 years after the 30-series launched. Not every game will support features like DLSS or FSR.
Buy the GeForce RTX 4070 if you want a reasonably sized, highly efficient 1440p gaming beast, complete with access to all the latest and greatest Nvidia software features—and if you’re willing to spend $600 on a graphics card like that. Avoid it for long-term 4K usage, and comparison shop before you buy as last-gen graphics cards may offer better value.

TechGage

Admittedly, we’d find ourselves more excited about the RTX 4070 if it did in fact retain the RTX 3070’s pricing. We remember the days when someone could spend the same general amount on a GPU from one generation to the next, and see a substantial upgrade. Today, it feels like all of that improved performance is locked behind a price premium instead.
That all said, while we wish the price was a little more alluring to cater to more people, the RTX 4070 does have a few great things going for it over that last-gen RTX 3070 Ti. For starters, the frame buffer has increased 50%, to sit at 12GB, and (surprisingly?), the bandwidth is identical to the model above (both RTX 4070 Ti and RTX 4070 share the same 192-bit bus). It’s a hot topic right now that 8GB of VRAM isn’t enough to feel super-comfortable with in 2023, so it’s crucial that this RTX 4070 did in fact ship with 12GB.
Another part of the upgrade comes by way of the Frame Generation feature in DLSS 3. While previous-gen cards can take advantage of other DLSS 3 updates, Frame Generation is exclusive to Ada Lovelace, and as we’ve seen in the few tests where we utilized it, the differences can be huge. We mentioned the caveat about retaining a good baseline FPS when using FG so input latency is kept to a minimum, and this RTX 4070 delivered that quite easily in Cyberpunk 2077, and Dying Light 2.
Path-traced games, such as the newly-updated Cyberpunk 2077, are going to be best played on a GPU like the RTX 4070 at 1080p, although Portal with RTX is suitable enough for 1440p, given that it’s not a twitch shooter (note: we played through all of Portal with RTX ahead of this launch, and can say it’s definitely worth checking out).
Whether or not the RTX 4070’s price tag feels worth it to you will depend on what you’re after. It’s really good to see 12GB included with it, and the Frame Generation feature is already supported in a whack of games, and is likely to become more prominent over time. We figure these two things factored into NVIDIA’s thinking on pricing most.
That said, after looking over pricing ahead of this article, we found ourselves having a difficult time even deciding wihch competitive GPUs to include. Since we had yet to test Intel’s Arc in gaming, we wanted to have it included, and on the AMD side, we looked for the GPU nearest in price. The thing is, though, that last-gen Radeons are finding themselves well under SRP, while NVIDIA’s tend to hover over them.
The Radeon RX 6950 XT tested here didn’t just beat out the RTX 4070, but also the RTX 4070 Ti. The downside? No Frame Generation, of course, or the leading upscaler, DLSS. The GPU also happens to use an additional 200W, and is much larger. But, it’s a good option when looking at the bang-for-the-buck angle, and it is sure nice to have those.
We’re not sure whether or not NVIDIA will have a tough sell with the RTX 4070, but aside from its price, it packs a lot of performance in its modest frame. It uses reasoanble amounts of power (especially in comparison to the top-end Ada), and perks like Frame Generation alongside the 12GB frame buffer make it a worthy option.

The FPS Review

The GeForce RTX 4070 is price competitive with the last generation’s GeForce RTX 3070 Ti. In our performance testing, the lowest performance uplift was around 13% over the RTX 3070 Ti, but for the most part, it was closer to 20% on average, with some outliers like 41% in one game. There was a slightly larger advantage over the GeForce RTX 3070, about another 10% added to that, or 30% total on average. The results actually are closer versus the Radeon RX 6800, as it was closer in several games in performance.
When we enabled Ray Tracing the GeForce RTX 4070 did outperform everything very well. It allowed a playable experience with Ray Tracing at 1440p, except for one game, but that was expected. When things are not as playable, enable DLSS, and it’s more than fine. The GeForce RTX 4070 is flexible by allowing DLSS 3 Frame Generation, DLSS support, and FSR. The big walkaway is that the GeForce RTX 4070 allows a more than enjoyable gameplay experience at 1440p.
Compared to the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti, at the same MSRP price-point, gen-to-gen, the GeForce RTX 4070 improves in the following ways. It provides DLSS 3 Frame Generation support, it has a higher VRAM capacity at 12GB versus 8GB, it provides better Ray Tracing performance, it provides AV1 support, and it is around 20% faster at the same price point as the last generation, and it is smaller more efficient and runs cooler.

Tomshardware

Compared to the previous-gen parts, the RTX 4070 ends up trading blows with the RTX 3080 across our test suite. There are times when it's 5–10 percent faster, and other instances where it's 5–10 percent slower. Of course, that's not counting DLSS 3, which can boost performance by another 30% or more. But as we've said many times, DLSS 3's Frame Generation doesn't directly translate into universally better performance. It can smooth out visuals, but it adds latency and still needs a decent base level of performance before it's acceptable.
The most impressive aspect of the RTX 4070 isn't the performance or the price, but rather the efficiency. Even though it's not clearly superior to an RTX 3080, it's close enough that we'd give it the edge. The fact that it needs 120W less power to reach the same level of performance is just the cherry on top.
Just don't go into the RTX 4070 expecting twice the performance for half the price. As Jensen put it last year, those types of gains aren't happening anymore, especially as we reach the scaling limits of Moore's Law (RIP). Instead, Nvidia is offering more of an alternative to the last generation's top GPU, the RTX 3080... now at a lower price, with significantly lower power requirements, and with some extra features like DLSS 3 and AV1 encoding support.
If you were previously eyeing an upgrade to an RTX 3070 for $500, the RTX 4070 is a far better deal. It's 33% faster across our entire test suite, not counting DLSS 3, for a 20% increase in price. And you get to choose whether or not you want to turn on Frame Generation, plus the option to stream in AV1 if that's your thing.
If you've been holding out for an affordable RTX 40-series GPU, the RTX 4070 is probably about as good as it will get in the near term. Sure, we'll see an RTX 4060, maybe even a 4060 Ti, and RTX 4050 as well. But we really don't like the thought of buying a GPU with less than 12GB VRAM these days, and it's tough to see Nvidia slapping more than 8GB on some of the upcoming models. Yes, they might cost less, but they'll require a lot more in the way of compromise.
If you're a mainstream gamer still hanging on to an RTX 2070, or an even older GTX 1070, and you're finally ready to upgrade, hopefully, you can scrape together the $600 needed for an RTX 4070. Of course, we can always wish for lower prices and higher performance, but with the current market conditions, the 4070 is about as good as we're likely to get.

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• "Hilaria's CAA bio..." from ultimomono
• Alec interview on Torrente 5 where he claims his wife grew up in Spain and her paternal grandmother is from Spain (YouTube link)
• Alec's tweets
• Why are all her children blonde and blue-eyed?
• Olive Skin and Honey Eyes

• "Take it from a linguist: it don't add up, folks!" from LuckyDuckyVenus
• As a Spaniard, this is what I think of Hillary's Spanish and Spanish "heritage" from burton_on
• Fake Accent Slips (YouTube link)
• "rilly" and "diffront" clip (YouTube link)
• Accent for Spindrift promo
• Fake accent on Extra
• "ees dirty the floor" video
• "tech uh dep bruhth" video
• "More video evidence that Hillary sucks at Spanish" from RazzleDazzle722
• "Hillary Classics: The Before-and-After Ro-may-o Remix! 🥒🥒" from ftak15

• American slang
• Multiple tweets here
• Motherland Tweet

• "a bit short patients"
• "summer" vs "dinner"
• taking "the stair"
• "teaching cleaning pool"
• "come out of bath"

• United Nations Appearance
• "Hilaria Baldwin: Everyone thinks I'm the nanny" article from PageSix
• Hilaria Baldwin Mini Glossary

• the disappearance of Diego Manchego
  • Some pictures of him here, here, and here
  • mistreatment of Diego (video) ⚠️may be disturbing
• the other two pups are left in the Hamptons full time
  • her gals
• the "adoption" of two Bengal cats (they are illegal to own in NYC and are not recommended to be around young children) and the subsequent disappearance of Antonio Cupcake
  • "Why we're upset about Emilio the cat" from SherlockBeaver
  • Bengal cat too close to baby Edu
  • Cat paws covering MariLu's eyes
• the disappearance and sudden reappearance of an injured Emilio Cookie
• cat #3: Cayetana Magdalena Baldwin
  • Now it's Cayetana Magdalena Josefina Sofia

• The nannies DO exist
  • "Breaking down the Baldwin's Nanny Alert" from Big_Ad5272
  • "After 1-2 months down, the nanny ad is back up!" from quetedigo
  • Nanny ad insights from DCUM Forum compiled by seasong01
  • Hillary is offended that people think she has five nannies (video)
  • Nannies on a boat
  • Nanny misidentification (hot nanny)
  • The nanny brigade, and here
• She's a mom just like us
  • She changes diapers!
  • She takes her children to doctor appointments!
  • A sibling babysits!
  • Momlife moment poll
  • Just being a Mami
  • She bakes a birthday cake!
    • Alec's cake
    • Carmen's cake
• She is always so tired
  • Definitely Tired
  • #NOSLEEP
  • Mami has been up with teething babies
  • She needs a few minutes away from her kids
  • Mami is a tired lifeguard
  • Super Mami wouldn't change a thing
  • What is sleep?

• The MLK Day video
• Breast Cancer Awareness Tribute 2021
  • Post 1, Post 2, Post 3, Post 4
  • Hair video
• Carmen's staple incident and the US Magazine article about it
• Filming Carmen's meltdown
• Miscarriages
  • Miscarriage used for Instagram content
  • Sharing her miscarriage with Carmen (video)
• Hillary claims she is "multi" and "fluid"
  • "Hilaria Baldwin...just won't let it go" by Maureen Callahan, NY Post
  • "God Help Me. I'm Going To Try To Break This Down: Hillary's Latest Insane "I'm Multi!" Instagram Post" from Big_Ad5272
  • The Instagram post
• The heartless "I need life with you Mama" IG story
• Pink Wig
• Rants
  • Micro/Macro Rant
  • Doxing Rant
  • Paparazzi Rant
  • Another Paparazzi Rant
  • Privacy and Boundaries Rant
  • Misc. Rant
  • Supporting Causes Rant
  • Rant while children are crawling over her
  • Another Misc. Rant
  • Alec's Swollen Face Rant
• The time she "broke" her ankle
• Rafa and the naughty words
  • Rafa keys the car (video)
  • After keying the car
• Hillary wears a bra in the family photo
• Hillary taking a bath (video)
• Hillary dancing in a bra (video)
• Her ring needs a new hiding spot (video)
• Guest Baldwin
• Hillary wearing a dress that is inappropriate for the weather
• Hillary and Alec's hoe-down dance (video)
• Edu's allergic reaction
• "Breastfeeding" Edu in his stroller
• Hillary is a star at the Tribeca Film Fest Luncheon
  • Posing
  • Hideous glasses
  • With Alec
• Singing in the car (video)
• No time for a pedicure
• She copied Nichole Scherzinger's Instagram bio
• Claire Penis Fiasco
  • Instagram post
  • "The Mysterious Claire Penis" from CommercialStyle4551
• Hillary "pets" animals AND her children very...strange
  • Even the way she pets a horse is creepy AF
  • Who the hell pets a cat like this?
  • The creepy baby stroking continues
• Shaming and just piss poor treatment of MariLu
  • "Fussy MariLu and her Diaper Blow-outs" from Big_Ad5272

1. MariLu is *miserable* while Hillary videos herself in a mirror
2. MariLu shaming
3. More shaming
4. MariLu is upset at the construction noise
5. Shaming MariLu for not sleeping
6. Shaming MariLu for pooping
7. MariLu is not protected from the sun
8. MariLu crying with food on her face
9. MariLu in soiled diaper laying on the bathroom floor
10. Edu teething on MariLu's fingers
11. Edu teething on MariLu's head
12. It's MariLu's fault that Mami is tired
13. Edu gnawing on MariLu's head again
14. Not supporting MariLu's head
15. MariLu is hungry so lets take a picture
16. Edu being rough with MariLu

• With Jared, hairstylist extraordinaire
  • Hillary full of herself
  • Jared Nip Slip (video)
  • Dancing (video)
  • The Return of Jared (video)
  • Curtain-bangish situation
  • Filters
  • Definitely Drunk Dancing (video)
  • Wishing Hilaria Happy Birthday (video)
  • Jared reposting a Gumby photo
  • Jared looks diff-ront
  • Ridiculous glasses
  • Hilaria's wet hair
  • BK Meme
  • Another BK Meme
  • In The Car (video)
  • He loves her

• Alec took these (staged) photos of Hillary sleeping
  • Pic 1, Pic 2, Pic 3, Pic 4
• Middle of the night pictures of the babies, making sure we know the exact time that poor mami is up
  • Make a wish at 11:11pm
  • At 12:52am
  • It was one of those nights at 1:23am
  • At 1:46am
  • At 1:50am
  • At 1:55am
  • At 3:23am
  • At 3:26am
  • At 3:34am
  • At 5:44am
  • At 6:23am
• Alec shaming
  • He's old
  • Baby likes mami better
  • He coughed
  • He whispers too loud
  • He woke the babies up
  • He watches his Instagram too loud
  • He got redder than the watermelon
  • Alec's weak voice
  • Hot date
  • The Old Man and The Sea
  • He forgot to put Carmen to bed
  • Alec getting Hillary coffee in the rain (video)
  • She never takes Alec seriously