Nvidia’s latest GPU targets gamers who prioritize power efficiency. It provides excellent rasterization performance while also supporting key technologies from Nvidia such as DLSS 3 with Frame Generation.
The AMD Radeon R7 Ampere card is significantly cheaper than its predecessor and thus makes an excellent choice for budget gaming PCs.
RTX 4070 Ti
If you want to play the latest 1080p Ultra games on PC, a modern graphics card will be essential. While older generation cards remain viable options, today’s best gaming PC graphics cards belong to Nvidia’s current RTX series; specifically the 4070 Ti is an ideal budget option that delivers solid performance at an economical price tag.
Nvidia decided to refresh their 4070 card with this updated model, giving it a new name and slightly enhanced specifications. One notable change is an increase in memory capacity from 8GB to 16GB; this should enable it to keep pace with higher resolutions and textures as well as provide ample room for DLSS frame generation performance or real-time ray tracing performance.
The other significant change to this product is a wider memory bus. Memory bus width determines how quickly data moves across an interface, with wider buses handling more traffic. Furthermore, the RTX 4070 Ti also sees an upgrade from 192-bit bus capacity to 256-bit, providing a modest boost to overall memory bandwidth.
While these changes aren’t earthshaking, they do make the RTX 4070 Ti an attractive budget option for gamers looking to play modern titles at 1080p Ultra settings. In many rasterization games it often outpaces its more costly 2070 counterpart, and can even outperform AMD’s 7900 XT card in games featuring full path tracing support.
However, it should be noted that the RTX 4070 Ti is inferior to its more costly RX 7900 XT counterpart in terms of ray tracing and DLSS upscaling games – though this should come as no surprise, this difference should be significant enough that you should carefully consider all factors when making a choice between cards.
