Summary
The MSI GeForce RTX 4070 Gaming X Trio is a highly interesting mid-range graphics card that also makes you forget all the weak points of the so-called MSRP cards. So it’s kind of a cream puff, as long as you leave the price out of it for a moment. Well, 50 Euros more is nothing that will kill you, and I would buy the better equipped card, if only because of my ears and in terms of cooling and durability. The 215 watts are easily enough to play reasonably well, because you can reach or even beat a GeForce RTX 3080 10GB, depending on the game and resolution, of course.
The up to 215 watts of such an overclockable card is quite well invested money, because more energy can be converted into significantly 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. From that point of view, it’s one more reason not to buy one of the entry-level tickets if you have the 50 euros to spare.
The factory overclocked MSI GeForce RTX 4070 Gaming X Trio is an excellent card in Full HD when it comes to highest frame rates and 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.
Of course, you get all the advantages of the Ada architecture here starting at a current street price of around 719 Euros 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. But MSI can’t do anything about it.
Conclusion
The MSI GeForce RTX 4070 Gaming X Trio with the AD104-250 is a well-implemented mid-range card that doesn’t have to fear any direct rivals from AMD in this generation yet. In terms of efficiency, NVIDIA once again sets standards that AMD still has to measure up to. And MSI still follows up with considerably more phases. Even with a rather moderately overclocked card from the factory, the concept works. If and when the RX 7800 series will be released is still up in the air. But gamers live in the here and now, and there are simply no alternatives at the moment if you want the full feature set, including high-quality super sampling and AI.
Apart from the outdated Display Port port and the 12 GB of memory, which is meager for Ultra HD, I do not see any drawbacks that would speak against such a card in the GeForce RTX 4070 in general. Except for the price, but that has unfortunately become a running joke and affects all areas of daily life. Even chips and Coke for playing games have risen in price adequately. That doesn’t make things any nicer, but at least a little more plausible. The manufacturers will hardly make big profits at least with the MSRP cards, which is not surprising. Then rather a more lovingly implemented card with a really good cooler. Then the satisfaction of disassembly is also restored, because you have to fret less.
The graphics card was provided by MSI for this test. The only condition was compliance with the blocking period; there was no influence or remuneration.
- 1 - Introduction, technical data and technology
- 2 - Test system and methods
- 3 - Teardown: PCB, components and cooler
- 4 - Gaming performance
- 5 - Details: Power consumption and load balancing
- 6 - Transients and PSU recommendation
- 7 - Colock rate, temperatures and thermal imaging
- 8 - Fan speed and noise level
- 9 - Summary and conclusion
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