PNY RTX 4070 SUPER Verto OC Dual Fan 12GB Review – The cheapest in its class, economical, fast and a little cheeky

1 - Introduction, technical data and technology 2 - Test system and measuring equipment 3 - Teardown: Disassembling and cooler 4 - Teardown: PCB and components 5 - Teardown: Material analysis 6 - Gaming Performance FHD (1920 x 1080) 7 - Gaming-Performance WQHD (2560 x 1440) 8 - Gaming Performance Ultra-HD (3840 x 2160) 9 - Gaming Performance DLSS & FSR 10 - Power consumption and load balancing 11 - Transients, capping and PSU recommendation 12 - Temperatures, clock rate and tehrmal imaging 13 - Fan curves, noise and audio samples 14 - Summary and conclusion

Summary

The GeForce RTX 4070 Super had already made considerable gains, but the PNY RTX 4070 SUPER Verto OC Dual Fan 12GB goes one better and is even a tad more economical than the FE. On the other hand, the card is also quite spartanly equipped, but is the first RTX 4070 Super to cost less than 600 euros in weeks. This was precisely the reason for me to also test this card, because it doesn’t always have to be the top end of a line-up. Savers will certainly be pleased.

Although NVIDIA has not expanded the memory or increased the memory interface on this super card, it has at least significantly increased the L2 cache in order to optimize queries and response times, especially at higher resolutions. All in all, a chip with significantly more streaming multiprocessors (including more Tensor and RT cores) and the larger cache using manual OC achieves performance increases of well over 20 percent, especially as the memory can also be overclocked quite well. The PNY RTX 4070 SUPER Verto OC Dual Fan 12GB is certainly a nice and relatively inexpensive test object for those who enjoy gaming and experimenting.

Of course, NVIDIA does not leave any room for MSRP cards like this in terms of power consumption (power limit fixed at 220 watts), but this does not make it any more inefficient simply by increasing the clock rate during OC. Once again, it is the voltage and not the power limit that limits the card, which cannot always be fully utilized even in normal operation. The PNY RTX 4070 SUPER Verto OC Dual Fan 12GB is generally an excellent card in Full HD when it comes to the highest frame rates and is also ideally suited for WQHD. In Ultra HD at the latest, however, you will have to think about smart upscaling in places and this is where DLSS comes into play. Because what generally didn’t run on the FE won’t get much better on the PNY RTX 4070 SUPER Verto OC Dual Fan 12GB.

Meanwhile, games such as “The Last of Us Part 1” (TLOU) in Ultra-HD with DLSS even look subjectively better than native Ultra-HD. This is where NVIDIA can really play to its advantages, which DLSS 2.x and, above all, DLSS 3.5 also offer in purely visual terms. However, if a game also supports frame generation and you would still be bobbing around in the less playable FPS range even with super sampling, then this can even be a lifeline to good playability. You can’t improve the latency with this, but not every genre is as latency-bound as various shooters.

The cooler is certainly still suitably dimensioned within the TBP, but there are no reserves. The missing backplate pads behind the voltage converters would at least be worth considering improving. There’s no need to write anything more about the 12VHPWR 12V-2×6 connection, as we’ve already chewed through that enough. At less than 220 watts, nothing happens.

Conclusion

The PNY RTX 4070 SUPER Verto OC Dual Fan 12GB with the AD104-350 is a highly interesting mid-range card in itself, especially as the price has now fallen below the important 600 euro mark. Of course, this card is therefore a forced compromise between cost savings and increased performance, in which (for me) such unimportant things as ARGB have logically fallen by the wayside. If you don’t need an RGB fair in the housing, you can take a second look at the card, the first one is not negative. We can tolerate the small negligence in the thermal paste and the fan can (but should not) happen.

Which brings us to the warranty case (because I’m having the fan replaced). After all, PNY offers a 3-year warranty on the RTX cards, only if they are used extensively for things like cryptomining, this is reduced to the regular 24 months or it is even rejected. The warranty can be processed directly with PNY via [email protected] and you will receive a shipping label for the shipment to PNY. Depending on the age and type of problem, you may even get a 48-hour replacement if you’re lucky, but I wouldn’t want to guarantee that across the board. Purely based on experience. However, the retailers are also positioned differently here. Mindfactory generally only gives 24 months according to the terms and conditions and then refers to PNY, while retailers such as NBB or Galaxus also handle the RMA for the entire 36 months. So it’s a matter of taste where you buy what.

The Radeon RX 7900 GRE is of course around 60 euros cheaper to buy than this card, but it is slower and, above all, much thirstier and therefore significantly hotter in the case. In terms of efficiency, NVIDIA is once again setting standards by which AMD must (but currently cannot) be measured, even with factory overclocked cards. You can’t even test the crowbar, the AER and Speedo are ahead. But the gamer lives in the here and now and there are currently only alternatives with compromises if you want the complete feature set including high-quality super sampling, frame generation and AI. Especially as I can see the GeForce RTX 4070 Super perhaps even being 10 to 20 euros cheaper in the foreseeable future. But that would be pure guesswork.

Apart from the outdated display port connection, the somewhat grumpy fans and the still somewhat meagre 12 GB memory expansion for Ultra-HD, I don’t see any disadvantages with the PNY RTX 4070 SUPER Verto OC Dual Fan 12GB that would speak against this card. The price is okay so far, if you put it in relation to the performance of the other cards. Because AMD isn’t really cheaper either, just significantly thirstier. And another hobbyist’s tip: the card’s length of 24.7 cm makes it ideal for a ghetto mod! Maybe I’ll even do that myself, somehow my fingers are itching.

The graphics card was provided by PNY for this test without obligation. The only condition was compliance with a blocking period, there was no influence or remuneration.

PNY GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER Verto Overclocked Dual Fan, 12GB GDDR6X, HDMI, 3x DP (VCG4070S12DFXPB1-O)

	Zentrallager: verfügbar, Lieferung 3-5 WerktageFiliale Wilhelmshaven: nicht lagerndStand: 10.05.24 04:13	603,35 €*Stand: 10.05.24 04:20
	am Lager, Lieferzeit 1-2 Tage	614,00 €*Stand: 10.05.24 03:43
	Lager Lieferant: Sofort lieferbar, 1-3 Werktage	624,37 €*Stand: 10.05.24 04:09

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PNY GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER XLR8 Gaming Verto Epic-X RGB Overclocked Triple Fan, 12GB GDDR6X, HDMI, 3x DP (VCG4070S12TFXXPB1-O)

	Zentrallager: 3 Stück lagernd, Lieferung 1-3 WerktageFiliale Wilhelmshaven: 3 Stück lagerndStand: 10.05.24 04:13	659,00 €*Stand: 10.05.24 04:20
	Ab Zentrallager sofort lieferbar	667,97 €*Stand: 10.05.24 00:15
	Auf Lager, 1-2 Werktage	667,99 €*Stand: 10.05.24 04:09

*Alle Preise inkl. gesetzl. MwSt zzgl. Versandkosten und ggf. Nachnahmegebühren, wenn nicht anders beschriebenmit freundlicher Unterstützung von geizhals.de