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In the new RTX 4070 cards tested, the TGP power consumption of most cards is set at 200W, resulting in almost no difference in performance. And there is such a card, with a leapfrog radiator design, the performance release force is higher than other non-public graphics cards, reaching 215W. It is the shadow car GeForce RTX 4070 star accolade OC.

CTOnews.com also received the shadow GeForce RTX 4070 star accolade OC in advance. In this test, we will use a set of high-end intel configuration to test to avoid graphics card bottlenecks as far as possible. The specific configuration is as follows:

Design ‏ Yingchi's Star Yao series graphics cards have always been synonymous with high-end dazzling graphics cards. So the size is also very large. This is a standard 3-slot large graphics card, BWH size with bezel: ‏ 351*154*56mm ‏. The overall design adopts diamond wind cutting design, and the interior is flawless pure white. ‏

The ‏ GEFORCE RTX 4070 Star Yao OC still uses a three-fan design, and this heat dissipation module is known as the Xingzhuo III radiator. Each fan consists of 11 white blades, and the transparent fan design allows light to spread freely to each blade. ‏

‏ is accompanied by convenient lighting settings, when the light is on, the shell of the whole card will light up, and the look and feel will be crystal clear and bright. ‏

The backplane of the ‏ GEFORCE RTX 4070 star accolade OC card is mainly white, while there are starlight designs in many places, and there is a huge hollowed out on the right side, which can be directly blown through by the wind and enhance the heat dissipation performance. ‏

The outermost ring of the back panel of the ‏ video card is a transparent edge, which can be disassembled by itself, and players can customize their favorite scheme. ‏

‏, such as Yingchi, has provided the back and shell of the new Xing Yao Niang school uniform to replace, so that the whole card becomes full of two-dimensional style in an instant. ‏

The logo of Ge ‏‏ F ‏‏ orce RTX is printed on the upper right of the ‏, and the middle ARGB light area is mirrored in silver. After lighting, the LOGO of the Star Yao series will light up with the fan. This light is also practical, when there is a lack of power supply or installation problems, it will flash yellow or red lights to warn, known as the "negative energy" detection system. ‏

In the aspect of ‏ power supply, it adopts the 16Pin power supply interface of the latest ATX3.0 specification, and the adapter from 2*8Pin to 16Pin is included in the package. ‏ if the power supply is not false, CPU with i5, R5 and other 100-watt CPU, as long as 450W power supply can drive the whole machine. Most importantly, it only needs a single 8Pin 1 / 2 output line to work properly, which means that players with upgrade ideas do not need to change the power supply at all.

‏ the power supply we use in this test is the 750W ice and snow white power supply of Weigang's XPG Magic Core Gold full module, it has passed the 80PLUS gold certification, the length of 14CM is very suitable for small chassis, the pure white module line is specially matched with Star Yao graphics card, and the 750W full output with i9 + RTX 4070 is more than enough. ‏

The ‏ I / O interface bezel uses dark gray color matching, and the interface is equipped with 3*DP1.4a interface and 1*HDMI2.1 interface, supporting up to 8K 60 frame output. ‏

In addition to the transfer line, there is also a graphics card bracket in the ‏ package. This graphics card bracket also supports ARGB lighting and can be synchronized with the graphics card. ‏

Core parsing RTX 4070 is similar to RTX 4070Ti, both are based on the AD104 core, but the core size has been reduced, so the core code name is AD104-250. The specific reduction is that GPC has changed from five groups to four groups, with a total of 5888 CUDA cores, 184 Tensor cores, 46 third-generation RT cores and 64 ROP units, which can basically be understood to retain 80 per cent of the core size of RTX 4070 Ti. However, it is a bit of a pity that the signboard NVENC unit has changed from two to one.

The public version of RTX 4070 BOOST frequency is 2475MHz, while Yingchi RTX 4070 Star Yao OC due to leapfrog power supply, the default frequency is as high as 2610MHz. The video memory is consistent with the RTX 4070 Ti. All are 12GB GDDR6X with 192-bit bit width, and the bandwidth is also 21Gbps. Suitable for 2K high frame rate games.

Yingchi RTX 4070 Star Yao OC still uses the latest NVIDIA Ada architecture and is built on TSMC 4N custom technology, thus achieving a huge leap of up to twice the ratio of performance to power consumption. The throughput of the streaming multiprocessor is more than twice that of the previous generation, and the ray-tracing computing power of the third-generation RT Cores has increased by 2.8 times. In addition, the fourth generation of Tensor Cores added a FP8 engine with up to 1.32 petaflops of Tensor processing performance, more than five times that of the previous generation. At the same time, the use of SER technology, ray tracing has brought up to three times the performance improvement, the overall game performance can also be up to 25% improvement. Whether in games or in other computing tasks, it can bring excellent performance.

The new Ada architecture brings many new features in specific functions: the introduction of an optical flow accelerator enables DLSS 3 to predict the motion changes between frames in the scene, thus realizing the frame generation technology through AI, which improves the frame rate while maintaining the image quality. In addition, the new architecture also supports the application of AV1 encoders, which reduces the video volume and achieves better picture quality. It can bring more powerful computing power in generative artificial intelligence scenarios such as AI painting and GPT training. At the same time, the application of RTX VSR function also makes real-time video super-resolution possible.

Theoretical performance We mentioned at the beginning that the shadow RTX 4070 star accolade OC is the ceiling of all the initial graphics cards. Because it breaks through the 200W power wall. After 15 minutes, the core temperature is about 59 ℃, and the apparent storage temperature is about 73.2 ℃. The power consumption of the whole card has reached 215W, not only the performance release is higher than that of other homes, but also the temperature is lower than that of other homes.

Next, there is a 3DMark pressure test, which can detect whether the performance of the graphics card has declined under continuous running minutes. Generally, more than 97% can be regarded as a qualified graphics card. The measured score of Yingchi GeForce RTX 4070 star accolade OC is 99.6%, and the performance release is extremely stable.

In the 3DMark TimeSpy DX12 test, the graphics card score reached 19048, compared with the public RTX 4070 score of 18148. Yingchi GeForce RTX 4070 Star Yao OC does have a lot of performance advantages. This score has surpassed RTX 3080 10G and is basically the same as RTX 3080 12G.

In the 3DMark FireStrike Extreme DX11 test, the graphics card score of Yingchi GeForce RTX 4070 Star Yao OC reached 22387, which was also similar to that of RTX 3080 12G, and also surpassed all non-public graphics cards of the same period.

In the 3DMark Portal Royal light pursuit test, Yingchi GeForce RTX 4070 star accolade OC scored 11116 points, about 500 points higher than the public version, and is also able to play light pursuit 2K games smoothly.

After the actual measurement of the game, we will carry out the actual measurement of the game. The resolution is adjusted to 2560 to 1440, and the picture quality is adjusted to the highest. The first is the competitive game "CS:GO", which shows the performance of RTX 4070 in high frames. After running its own BenchMark, the average frame reaches 486 frames, which can meet the needs of 2K high frames to play freely, and can run all kinds of electronic competition screens.

It is worth mentioning that eight of the ten major competitive shooting games now support NVIDIA Reflex, including "Apex Hero", "call of Duty: theater 2", "Destiny 2", "Escape from Takov", "Fortnite", "Watch Vanguard", "return", "Rainbow 6: siege" and "Dauntless contract". NVIDIA Reflex can reduce operational delays, improve response speed, and make guns more sensitive. The author hopes that the CS2 version of Origin 2 will be updated soon and will also support NVIDIA Reflex technology.

Next, the author also tested two classic 3A masterpieces. "Wild Dart 2: redemption" without turning on DLSS, GeForce RTX 4070 can reach an average of 107 frames, which is already able to play at more than 2K 100 frames, which is undoubtedly an excellent experience.

If we turn on the DLSS of the quality file, the number of frames will be further increased to an average of 124frames, and there is almost no loss of image quality at this time, and the experience is excellent.

In another classic 3A masterpiece, Tomb Raider: shadow, the number of frames is also higher than that of other RTX 4070. Running the built-in BenchMark with the highest picture quality of 2K has reached an average of 182frames, fully satisfying the playfulness of the 2K165Hz screen.

When DLSS is turned on, the frame number is better, reaching an average of 214frame, and the frame number is increased by more than 30 frames. Generally speaking, the performance of RTX 4070 in traditional 3A masterpieces is very close to that of RTX 3080. It is far ahead of the RTX 3070 Ti, RTX 3070 and RTX2070Super of the same generation.

These are just appetizers, and the most attractive thing about RTX 4070 is its DLSS 3 technology, which can further improve the frame rate. DLSS 3 is a performance multiplier driven by AI, powered by the new fourth generation Tensor Core and GeForce RTX 40 series GPU optical flow accelerator, is the latest version of NVIDIA's acclaimed deep learning supersampling technology, while providing groundbreaking optical multi-frame generation, will open a new era for NVIDIA RTX neural network rendering games and applications.

To put it simply, the past DLSS 2 technology improved image quality and frame rate by rendering a low-resolution image and then zooming in to a high resolution through AI. On the basis of compatibility with DLSS 2, the new DLSS 3 technology adds a frame generation function, which can insert a new frame calculated by AI between two real frames, so as to double the frame rate. At the same time, combined with the super-resolution function of DLSS 2, AI can reconstruct up to 7/8 display pixels, and the game performance can be up to four times better than without DLSS!

So far, more than 280 DLSS games and apps have been released. There are a total of 30 released DLSS 3 games. In terms of the progress of the release, DLSS 3 was adopted seven times faster than DLSS 2 in the first six months of the release of DLSS 2 and DLSS 3 respectively. It seems that the difficulty of adaptation is quite low. I believe that more and more games will adapt to DLSS technology in the future.

Let's first take a look at the frame number of the most stressful "cyber punk 2077" at + 2K resolution. By default, RTX 4070 still has no way to play, with an average of about 40 frames. If DLSS 2 quality is turned on, the average number of frames can reach 71 frames. However, if you open cool techs DLSS 3, which is exclusive to the RTX 40 series, it will soar to an average of 107 frames. Thanks to the higher frequency, the frame number of Yingchi GeForce RTX 4070 Star Yao OC is always two or three frames higher than that of the public edition.

Legendary 3A masterpiece "Wizard 3: hunting" has also recently updated the next generation version, the configuration requirements have been greatly improved, of course, the picture quality has also kept up with the trend, and it is not out of date today. At the same time, it also provides DLSS 3 technology support, which is undoubtedly good news for RTX 40 series graphics cards.

In the next-generation version of "Wizard 3: hunter", the average GeForce RTX 4070 is only 44 frames with 2K resolution without DLSS. If the quality file DLSS 2 is turned on, it can reach an average of 65 frames. If AI-enhanced DLSS 3 technology is enabled, the number of frames will soar to an average of 100 frames, and most scenes can be played at 2K frames.

In another next-generation 3A masterpiece, the Legend of the Plague: Requiem, the optimization is relatively much better. Even if you do not turn on any AI technology, you can play smoothly at 2K 60 frames, and you can play with the number of e-sports frames after DLSS 3 is added.

The measured RTX 4070 can already meet the 76.7 frame playability at 2K resolution. If you turn on the DLSS 2 quality file, you can achieve an average of 116.8 frames, and if you turn on DLSS 3 inserting frames, the number of frames will soar to an average of 157.5 frames, meeting the requirements of 2K144 high-brush display.

So how much improvement will be made in the performance of graphics cards between generations? How much will it improve with the blessing of DLSS 3 technology? The author also swapped this configuration with RTX 3070 Ti to test a set of data. The RTX 4070 accolade OC has an advantage of about 10% in the number of frames without turning on DLSS 3. If you turn on the DLSS 3 technology exclusive to the RTX 4070 series, the number of frames will almost increase by 2-2.5 times, which is a qualitative gap with the RTX 3070 Ti.

In addition, we also use Nvidia's official FrameView tool to count the average power consumption in each 3A masterpiece. It can be seen that the actual power consumption of the RTX 4070 star accolade OC in most of the 3A masterpieces is about 200W, the heat dissipation pressure is very low, and the demand for power supply will be very low.

Creative production GeForce RTX 4070 Star Yao OC also supports the installation of NVIDIA Studio drivers to accelerate more than 110 of the most popular creative applications, so it also has a certain degree of productivity. Proprietary SDK makes these applications run faster and provides exclusive features such as Optix, DLSS, and Maxine. NVIDIA Studio has a full range of creative applications, including NVIDIA Omniverse, Broadcast, Canvas and RTX Remix. At the same time, the blessing of big show also makes it have a certain computing power of generative artificial intelligence, so there is no problem to use it for simple AI painting training.

In modeling and rendering software, the 5888 CUDA cores of Yingchi GeForce RTX 4070 star accolade OC can provide hardware acceleration to improve work efficiency. Almost all modeling software optimizes NVIDIA's GPU, so it can take into account efficiency, stability and compatibility. For example, in the commonly used rendering tool V-Ray, you can take advantage of the ray tracing feature of RTX acceleration to achieve high-performance final frame rendering. In addition, GPU with AI noise reduction can further accelerate interactive rendering and provide a smoother work experience.

We also measured the performance of V-Ray Benchmark, and the shadow GeForce RTX 4070 Star Yao OC scored 1902 points. For comparison, the public version of RTX 4070 scored 1842 points, which can fully meet the needs of most medium-sized modeling and rendering.

Thanks to the improvement of light-chasing performance, the score of GeForce RTX 4070 in V-Ray GPU RTX has also increased to 2699, which is also higher than that of the public edition, and can also meet the rendering needs of some medium-load light-chasing modeling.

In the later part of the video, RTX 4070 is equipped with a NVENC encoder. And it also supports the next generation video coding technology AV1,AV1, which can provide faster video coding and higher quality streaming media transmission performance while occupying the same space. As the major video platforms want to save the cost of server traffic, AV1 coding will become the mainstream coding method in the future.

NVIDIA works closely with a number of industry partners to ensure that its GPU fully supports today's mainstream multimedia applications. At present, the domestic professional version of editing and projection has achieved accelerated support for NVIDIA AV1 video encoders. The commonly used video color editing software DaVinci also provides support for AV1 coding. This means that NVIDIA GPU will certainly be able to take full advantage of its AV1 acceleration when dealing with video editing and rendering tasks in the future, providing more efficient performance and a smoother work experience.

CTOnews.com also tested the PugetBench For Adobe family bucket to see if it could do the video editing job. Measured GeForce RTX 4070 in the Adobe Premiere commonly used by creative workers, we enable GPU Cuda acceleration, and then use PugetBenchmark to test. The final score is 1513, and there is no pressure to look back at the 4K video.

We also use PugetBenchmark for testing in Adobe Effects, another more stressful video special effects software. The final score is 1637, which can be used to produce some more complex visual effects.

In addition to content production, RTX 4070 also has new features in the area of content consumption. That's RTX VSR technology. The full name is RTX Video Super Resolution (RTX Video Super Resolution Technology). It can improve the definition of online 1080p video to 4K resolution at most through GPU's AI calculation. At present, this technology has been adapted to Chrome browser and Edge browser, and will also be adapted to local players led by VLC.

As long as the RTX 30 series / 40 series driver is updated to version 531.14 and the Chrome / Edge browser is updated to the latest version, it can be enabled. Enable the path as follows: NVIDIA Control Panel-Video-adjust video image settings. There are four gears available under this option box. The higher the gear, the more obvious the super-resolution effect, but it will also consume more GPU resources.

At present, it already supports some foreign video platforms (Youtube, Twitch, Netflix, Hulu and Disney+) as well as domestic mainstream video platforms (bilibili, Douyu and Huya). VLC local video super resolution will also be supported in the future. In the following test, after the resolution of the leftmost native 480p is overscored, the following 1-4 gear can be seen more clearly, and the actual look and feel is comparable to that of 4K.

↑ is 480p, VSR1, VSR2, VSR3, VSR4 from left to right.

In addition to Edge and Chrome browsers, well-known VLC native players also provide adaptation of RTX VSR technology in the Beta version. Just like a web page, just open it in the driver control panel. When we use a 480p local video to demonstrate, it obviously feels clearer on the right. Later, when you enjoy the local movie, you can also use this technology to further optimize the picture quality.

To sum up, the author tested three new RTX 4070 cards this time, and Yingchi GeForce RTX 4070 Star Yao OC is undoubtedly one of the most powerful ones. The design style of the radiator with the same style as the flagship card also makes the look and feel more domineering. In terms of actual performance, it only needs about 3080 of the power consumption of RTX to achieve stronger performance, and the game experience has been further improved with the blessing of DLSS 3 technology.

For now, RTX 4070 will be a good choice for users of RTX 3070\ 3070Ti\ 2070Super to upgrade. Yingchi GeForce RTX 4070 Star Yao OC will go on sale at 9: 00 p.m. on April 13. If you are interested, you can follow us.

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