13 specifications

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti

On paper, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti has more shading units. Specifications describe what each card is designed to do; how much of that either one holds under continuous load is a separate question.

10 specifications · 3 with a higher side

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER

NVIDIA · GeForce RTX 40 · Desktop

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti

NVIDIA · GeForce RTX 40 · Desktop

Compute

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

Shading units

7,168

7,680

Base clock

1980 MHz

2310 MHz

Boost clock

2480 MHz

2610 MHz

Memory

12 GB

Memory type

GDDR6X

Memory bus

192-bit

Power and platform

TDP

220 W

285 W

Process

Not verified

Launched

2024-01-17

2023-01-05

A check marks the higher figure only on rows where higher is unambiguously better. Rows without one are not ties; they are specifications where “better” has no meaning.

Reading the table

What the difference means.

A year apart

The RTX 4070 SUPER (Ada Lovelace, 2024) is a year newer than the RTX 4070 Ti (Ada Lovelace, 2023). A newer architecture brings more than speed: newer video encoders and decoders, newer upscaling and frame generation, and a longer run of driver updates ahead of it.

Video memory

Both carry 12 GB, so neither has the advantage where memory is the limit: high resolutions, heavy textures and local AI models fill both at the same point.

Shading units

The RTX 4070 Ti has 7,680 shading units against 7,168, 7 percent more of the same kind of core. Within one architecture that is the clearest single guide to how much more work the chip can do, provided it is given the power and cooling to use them.

Board power

The RTX 4070 Ti draws up to 285 W against 220 W. That is heat the case has to exhaust and current the power supply has to deliver: allow a supply of about 700 W for the RTX 4070 Ti with a typical processor, and check the card's power connectors against the supply's. A card that cannot shed its heat does not fail. It lowers its clocks after a few minutes, which is the frame rate that falls the longer you play.

Which to pick, on paper

A small case or a modest power supply: RTX 4070 SUPER; 220 W against 285 W: less heat, fewer power connectors, quieter fans.

What no table says

How much of its speed a graphics card keeps after the first minute depends on the cooling and the power limit of the machine it is in. If you own one of these, measure it: the test is free and runs in this browser.

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Questions

Is the RTX 4070 SUPER better than the RTX 4070 Ti?: By need, on the specifications: a small case or a modest power supply: the RTX 4070 SUPER. They share an architecture, so the table is a fair guide. Frame rates depend on the game and its settings, and how much speed either card keeps after ten minutes depends on its cooling, which is what a sustained test measures.
What power supply does the RTX 4070 Ti need?: Allow about 700 W with a typical processor, and make sure the supply has the power connectors the card uses. The RTX 4070 SUPER at 220 W is easier on both.
Do the RTX 4070 SUPER and the RTX 4070 Ti have the same features?: Yes. Both are Ada Lovelace designs from NVIDIA, so they share the same generation of video encoders and decoders, upscaling and driver support. What separates them is in the table: how much of the chip each one has, and how much power it is given.

More comparisons

Every figure on this table is a design target. None of it is a measurement.

Nothing above describes how a graphics card behaves twenty minutes into a sustained workload, which is where two chips with nearly identical specifications routinely diverge. A boost clock is a ceiling the vendor permits, not a rate the chip sustains, and whether it holds depends on the cooling, the case, the power profile and the room. None of those appear on a specification sheet.

We deliberately do not reduce these figures to a single score. A composite invented from specifications would look authoritative and measure nothing, and choosing the weights would be choosing the winner.

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