ASUS TUF GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER Review: More Cores, Memory, Performance

Speed Way is the most recent addition to the UL 3DMark graphics test suite. Speed Way uses the DirectX 12 Ultimate API and leverages advanced features like DirectX Ray Tracing tier 1.1 for real-time global illumination and real-time raytraced reflections, Mesh Shaders, and high resolution textures and artwork…

UL 3DMark Speed Way DX12 Ultimate Benchmarks

The 3DMark Speedway shows just how much more powerful the ASUS TUF GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER is versus the outgoing RTX 4070 Ti. The new SUPER clearly outruns the original Ti and comes ever closer the RTX 4080.

UL 3DMark Time Spy Extreme DX12 Benchmarks

3DMark Time Spy Extreme is a synthetic DirectX benchmark test from UL. It features a DirectX 12 engine built from the ground up to support bleeding-edge features like asynchronous compute, explicit multi-adapter, and multi-threading. Time Spy is designed to test the DX12 performance of the latest graphics cards using a variety of techniques and varied visual sequences. This benchmark was developed with input from AMD, Intel, Microsoft, NVIDIA, and the other members of the UL Benchmark Development Program, to showcase the performance and visual potential of graphics cards driven by close-to-the-metal, low-overhead APIs.

3DMark Time Spy Extreme is highly detailed, and runs at a high resolution, but does not feature any ray tracing. This is purely a test of traditional raster performance and memory bandwidth. Once again we see the ASUS TUF GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER outperforming the original RTX 4070 Ti, but here the Radeon RX 7900 XT is able to eke out a victory. The GeForce RTX 4080 remains in the top spot, however.

DirectX Ray Tracing (DXR) Feature Test

We also tested the cards with UL's DirectX Ray Tracing Feature test. This test is laser-focused on path-tracing performance, and uses few of the card's other resources.

Unlike Speedway (and the older Port Royal test), 3DMark DXR Feature Test relies solely on Ray Tracing for its lighting and shadows. This test clearly shows NVIDIA's lead as it relates to ray tracing, and has the Radeons down at the bottom of the stack. The ASUS TUF GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER lands in the familiar position behind only the GeForce RTX 4080.

VR Benchmarks: VR Mark & Unigine Superposition

Superposition is the latest benchmark from Unigine, powered by the UNIGINE 2 Engine. It offers an array of benchmark modes, targeting gaming workloads as well as VR, with both DirectX and OpenGL code paths. There is an extreme hardware stability test built-in too. Unigine Superposition uses the developer’s unique SSRTGI (Screen-Space Ray-Traced Global Illumination) dynamic lighting technology, along with high quality textures and models, to produce some excellent visuals. We ran Superposition's VR Future benchmark to compare the performance of all of the graphics cards featured here.

Unigine Superposition VR Future Test

The Radeon RX 7900 XT and GeForce RTX 4080 duke it out at the top of the chart in Unigine's most taxing VR benchmark, with the ASUS TUF GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER slotting in at third place. Here, the ASUS TUF GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER is only marginally faster than the original RTX 4070 Ti.

UL VR Mark Blue Room Benchmarks

UL's VRMark is designed to test a PC’s readiness for the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift virtual reality headsets. The benchmark does not, however, require that one of the headsets is attached to the PC to run and it uses an in-house graphics engine and content to ensure comparable results between different platforms. We ran the "Blue Room" VRMark test at defaults settings here, which is currently the most taxing test offered by the tool.


Our results with VRMark show a clear pecking order, in-line with Unigine's VR benchmark. The ASUS TUF GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER pulls a bit further ahead of the original RTX 4070 Ti, but can't quite catch the Radeon RX 7900 XT and the GeForce RTX 4080 retains its chart-topping position.