Summary
The GeForce RTX 4070 Super had already made considerable gains, but the Palit GeForce RTX 4070 Super Jetstream OC 12GB goes one better. With an average performance gain of 2.5 percentage points compared to the Founders Edition in factory settings and up to 6.8 percentage points with manual overclocking to just under 3 GHz and 255 watts power limit, the Palit card is already just behind a non-overclocked GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Non-Super. If you then take a look at the prices, you can see why NVIDIA also has to make the Ti cards faster. String of pearls in graphics hardware.
NVIDIA did not expand the memory or increase the memory interface on the Super cards, but at least significantly increased the L2 cache in order to optimize the queries and response time, 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 Palit GeForce RTX 4070 Super Jetstream OC 12GB is certainly a nice and still relatively inexpensive test object for those who enjoy gaming and experimenting.
Of course, NVIDIA also leaves more room for OC cards like this in terms of power consumption, and it’s not easy to become significantly more inefficient. Once again, it is the voltage and not the power limit that limits the card. The GeForce RTX 4070 Super 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 is only marginally better on the Palit GeForce RTX 4070 Super Jetstream OC 12GB.
Meanwhile, games such as “The Last of Us Part 1” (TLOU) look subjectively even better in Ultra-HD with DLSS 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 a bit oversized in the context of the TBP, but the missing backplate pads behind the voltage converters would at least be worth considering improving. Nothing more needs to be said about the 12VHPWR 12V-2×6 connection, as we’ve already chewed through that enough. At less than 250 watts, nothing happens. And for those who would like it: the connections for 2x 8-pin PCIe are present and also fully functional electrically (see teardown). The relocation of the primary shunt to the back of the board and away from the 12V-2×6 header is also charming, if you read through my tests on this again.
Conclusion
The GeForce RTX 4070 Super with the AD104-350 is a highly interesting mid-range card in itself, and the Palit GeForce RTX 4070 Super Jetstream OC 12GB even more so. Of course, with an RRP of 699 euros, this card is a forced compromise between cost savings and increased performance, in which (for me) such unimportant things as ARGB have fallen by the wayside. If you don’t need an RGB fair in the case, you’re welcome to take a second look at the card, the first one isn’t negative. We can chalk up the small negligence in the thermal paste to the small series, which should look better in mass production.
Until Team Red brings a slimmed-down and attractively priced RX 7900 Non-XT to the German market or pumps the RX 7900 GRE into the normal channel and not only supplies system integrators, the Palit GeForce RTX 4070 Super Jetstream OC 12GB is actually without direct competition from the AMD camp. 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. Whether and when the RX 7900 without XT or a GRE for everyone will come is still written in the stars. But gamers live in the here and now and there are simply no alternatives at the moment if you want the complete feature set including high-quality super sampling, frame generation and AI.
Apart from the outdated Display Port connection and the still somewhat meagre 12 GB memory expansion for Ultra HD, I don’t see any disadvantages with the Palit GeForce RTX 4070 Super Jetstream OC 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. AMD is not really any cheaper.
The graphics card was provided by Palit for this test without obligation. The only condition was compliance with the embargo period, no influence or compensation took place.
- 1 - Intro, technical Data and Unboxing
- 2 - Test System and Equipment
- 3 - Teardown: PCB, Components and Cooler
- 4 - Material Analysis
- 5 - Gaming Performance FHD (1920 x 1080)
- 6 - Gaming-Performance WQHD (2560 x 1440)
- 7 - Gaming Performance Ultra-HD (3840 x 2160)
- 8 - Power Consumption and Load Balancing
- 9 - Transients and PSU Recommendation
- 10 - Clock Rate, Temperatures and Infrared Analysis
- 11 - Fan Curves and Noise
- 12 - Summary and Conclusion
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