Summary
The PNY GeForce RTX 4070 VERTO Dual Fan is a cleverly calculated and neatly implemented mid-range graphics card that also makes you forget about some weak points of the so-called MSRP cards, even if you feel the red pencil more often. It is virtually the maximum feasible, taking the price for the manufacturer once as a benchmark. To play reasonably performant games, the 200 watts are easily enough, because you can even reach a GeForce RTX 3080 10GB, of course depending on the game and resolution.
At first glance, the cooler appears to be quite tightly dimensioned, but it is fully sufficient up to 200 watts even in a closed case. The luxury of equalizing the hotspot with 8 instead of 6 voltage converter phases for the GPU voltage and increasing the efficiency a bit is of course bought visually and haptically, so much willingness to compromise has to be accepted as a buyer. The card doesn’t look really exciting, but it sweats less. So you can definitely do it that way.
The PNY GeForce RTX 4070 VERTO Dual Fan is a very good card in Full HD when it comes to higher frame rates and also still quite suitable 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 664 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 that 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 PNY can’t do anything about it.
Conclusion
The PNY GeForce RTX 4070 VERTO Dual Fan with the AD104-250 is a well-implemented mid-range card that has yet to fear any direct counterparts from AMD in this generation. In terms of efficiency, NVIDIA once again sets standards that AMD still has to measure up to. And PNY follows up with two more phases. Even with a card that is not overclocked at all from the factory, the concept works, because there are also positive side effects on the hotspots of the board. Whether and when AMD’s 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. And I’m happy to repeat myself: 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. This one was still implemented quite solidly, at least within the possible budget. There are certainly significantly worse alternatives.
The graphics card was provided by PNY for this test. The only condition was compliance with the blocking period; there was no influence or remuneration.
PNY GeForce RTX 4070 Verto Dual Fan, 12GB GDDR6X, HDMI, 3x DP (VCG407012DFXPB1)
 | Zentrallager: verfügbar, Lieferung 3-5 WerktageFiliale Wilhelmshaven: nicht lagerndStand: 14.05.24 16:42 | 601,67 €*Stand: 14.05.24 16:43 |
 | lagernd, 1-3 Werktage | 601,68 €*Stand: 14.05.24 15:31 |
 | 2-4 Tage | 609,35 €*Stand: 14.05.24 16:38 |
- 1 - Introduction, technical data and technology
- 2 - Test system and the igor'sLAB MIFCOM PC
- 3 - Teardown: PCB, components and cooler
- 4 - Gaming Performance
- 5 - Power Consumption and load balancing
- 6 - Transients and PSU recommendation
- 7 - Clock rate, temperatures and thermal imaging
- 8 - Fan curves and noise analysis
- 9 - Summary and conclusion
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