It uses the AMD RDNA 3 architecture, but instead of the Navi 32 GPU in the 7800 XT, it sticks with the larger Navi 31 GCD and offers 33% more compute units. The Radeon RX 7900 GRE displaces the RX 7800 XT as our top AMD pick. What's truly impressive is that it can do all that while cutting power use by over 100W. It's still 16% faster overall (at 1440p), even with the same VRAM capacity and bandwidth - though helped by the 33% increase in L2 cache size.Ĭompared to the previous generation Ampere GPUs, even with less raw bandwidth, the 4070 Super generally matches or beats the RTX 3080 Ti, and delivers clearly superior performance than the RTX 3080. The 4070 Super bumps core counts by over 20% compared to the vanilla 4070, and in our testing we've found that the general lack of changes to the memory subsystem doesn't impact performance as much as you might expect. We like the stealthy black aesthetic of the Founders Edition, and it runs reasonably cool and quiet, but third-party cards with superior cooling are also available, sometimes at lower prices than the reference card. Unlike some of the other models, the RTX 4070 Super also seems to have plenty of base-MSRP models available at retail. It's slightly better than a linear boost in performance relative to price, which is as good as you can hope for these days. It inherits the same $599 MSRP as the non-Super 4070 (which has dropped to $549 to keep it relevant), with all the latest features of the Nvidia Ada Lovelace architecture. Of the three, the RTX 4070 Super will be the most interesting for the most people.
Nvidia just refreshed its 40-series lineup with the new Super models. Others may offer a slightly different take, but all of the cards on this list are worthy of your consideration. Our subjective rankings below factor in price, power, and features colored by our own opinions. While performance can be an important criteria for a lot of gamers, it's not the only metric that matters. Note that we are not including upscaling results in the table, which would generally skew things more in favor of Nvidia GPUs, depending on the selection of games. The performance ranking incorporates 15 games from our latest test suite, with both rasterization and ray tracing performance included. If you want to see how the latest GPUs stack up in comparison to older parts, check our GPU benchmarks hierarchy. Previous generation cards are mostly not worth considering these days, as they're mostly discontinued and being phased out. There are 22 current generation parts, and most of them are viable choices for the right situation. The above list shows all the current generation graphics cards, grouped by vendor and sorted by reverse product name - so faster and more expensive cards are at the top of the chart. Retail prices can fluctuate quite a bit over the course of a month the table lists the best we could find at the time of writing. Note: We're showing current online prices alongside the official launch MSRPs in the above table, with the GPUs sorted by performance. The Arc A750 periodically falls below $200 (we've seen it sell for as little as $179) and remains a competitive option, if you don't mind the occasional driver snafus and higher power use. Intel's Arc Alchemist GPUs rate more as previous generation hardware, as they're manufactured on TSMC N6 and compete more directly against the RTX 3060 and RX 6700 10GB instead of newer parts. and western-focused site, however, so we'll confine our discussion to cards available in the U.S. The 7900 GRE has become a worldwide part, so perhaps the 4090 D will eventually follow suit. and tends to cost just as much as the faster non-D model, so we'll skip that. There's also the "made for China" RTX 4090 D, which isn't easy to find in the U.S. Barring a surprise announcement in the coming months, this should be the end of new models from AMD and Nvidia until the future Blackwell and RDNA 4 GPUs arrive - most likely in 2025. All of these are in our performance charts, and some make our overall picks, replacing former entries that are now discontinued. The only 'new' GPU to launch in February was the RX 7900 GRE, joining the four GPUs that came out in January: RTX 4080 Super, RTX 4070 Ti Super, RTX 4070 Super, and RX 7600 XT. We also had the worldwide launch of the AMD RX 7900 GRE last month, which joins our list.
Alongside the increasing RTX 4090 prices, RTX 4080 Super is also selling well above MSRP.