New 4070 Ti Super!

I upgraded my RTX 3080 to a 4070 Ti Super today. Very happy with the results so far. Stable with the new driver. “Hardest” thing was installing the GPU support because it’s so easy to back out motherboard standoffs inadvertently.

My rig now looks like:

i7-14700K
GIGABYTE RTX 4070 TI Super Aero OC 16G
AORUS Z790 Pro X
64 GB G.SKILL Trident RGB DDR5-6400
Samsung 990 Pro 2TB
AORUS FI32U 4k Monitor

Monitor refresh rate: 144Hz
NVidia max frame limit: 144 Hz

FS: Stock Ultra settings, with DLSS and Frame Generation on

3D Mark: 39692
CPU Mark: 49956 (it was over 54000, I must have switched something off)

I don’t have numbers written down to share on temps, but really, they weren’t anything to write home about - relatively cool, cooler than with my 3080 rig.

With DLSS and Frame Generation turned on, in 4K Ultra, I’m happy just about everywhere. Even Manhattan and central London. I’m not going to do rigorous benchmarking in FS (that may change but I’m not feeling the need now).

What I’d say about this card is that if you want non-frame-gen 4K at over 60fps everywhere, this isn’t your card. If you’re OK with frame-gen, it’s so far an awesome card!

My goal was to get playable performance without frame-gen, and boost into something smoother, without going too far off the value curve. 4090 would be great to have, but at today’s prices? And the 4080 & 4080 Super look to not be overwhelmingly better for the price difference, so I zeroed into the middle of the Super line.

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I think you made a great choice! It’s so refreshing to see the performance/price barrier eroding away, now that the bitcoin miners are being driven out of the GPU market.

Beautiful looking system, too!

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Thanks. My original intent wasn’t a white build, I just had a white case. Then I replaced the mobo, memory and cooler with white components, and then a metallic, whitish GPU made sense.

Also wasn’t all GIGABYTE by design. The mobo, yes, but the monitor came later, and, well, now this! Gotta get some white cables, and my front intake fans are brown Noctuas… that will probably change :slight_smile: !

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Moved to Hardware and Peripherals.

Thats great mate! Happy to see people upgrading! Let us know how it performs in terms of framerate/smoothness! Eagerly waiting!

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This is exactly the current jump I am thinking of making (3080 to 4070ti super) - I have roughly the same spec (13700k instead of 14700k). I am ok with my current setup but I still drop to 45 to 50 fps in heavy areas and have way to many stutters for my liking. Gonna wait a bit to see if I can see any MSFS benchmarks to see if its worth the cost.

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That case looks great and liquid cooling? That’s what I’d like to do.

I’ve changed my NVCP settings around a little bit (nothing crazy, but things like moving Anisotropic Filtering 16x into the control panel and off in the sim, Low latency off in the control panel and on (via frame generation) in the sim, V-sync defer to app and then on in the sim). There’s a YT video channel (2020 fs’ers) called “Best Performance Settings Explained Nvidia panel”

I’m getting pretty consistent 60+ fps in NYC and London, before frame gen (over 100 with it), at Ultra (anisotropy off, TLOD 300 OLOD 200).

More like 70+ fps in rural settings.

My main thread times are at about 10-11ms. FS FPS counter is typically green, every once in a great while flashes red and the main thread time spikes momentarily. Not noticeable in gameplay though.

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So, the not-so-secret dirty secret here, which could drive a lot of this, is that I reinstalled everything - I didn’t want old drivers for unused hardware around, I wanted apps out of there, and I did do some things that very much might not be for you: disable HT, disable VT-d, XMP profile for memory but then stock clocks and voltages for everything else. In other words, optimize the rig for this game primarily.

I know the rebuild helped me a lot before upgrading the GPU, but since then? Wow. I made a statement in the OP that said if you want consistently > 60fps pre-frame gen in 4k Ultra this isn’t your card. I’m getting it pretty consistently myself though - I just can’t guarantee it’ll happen for you.

This is all so hit or miss sometimes, I’m fortunate to be on a wave of “hit”!

It’s a pricy cooler (about USD 260 or so) - a Lian Li Galahad II LCD. It’s not perfect - it doesn’t really allow the motherboard to control pump speed, you need their app, and then it’s their speed curve or a fixed setting, and that’s it - I suspect that will change, but it’s annoying. I have it set fixed now, and it’s working well. I think the highest I’ve seen the coolant temp go is about 37 C under load.

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That’s super good right? I guess I would be happy with such results myself! Of course I know it can’t be the exact same for two systems but I mean the 60 fps solid area (with frame gen off) looks like a sweet spot to me! Just wondering what is the resolution you are flying in. I was thinking something close to 1440p for me.

4k for me. Now, over the last few days I have found some things that break this a little - the stock aircraft tend to do really well but very complicated custom aircraft (FBW 320, for example) or certain kinds of cloud patterns can drop it somewhat - even at that though, frame generation helps out a lot.

Decided to bite the bullet and make the change - I am getting a $350 trade in for my 3080 so for simplicity sake so that makes the price point something I am comfortable with…

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This thread interested me because I am currently waiting for a TUF Gaming 4080 Super that is on order. Thought maybe I could save some money and go for a TUF Gaming 4070 Ti Super instead, but there is hardly anything in it! Here in Norway the 4080 is 1226 USD and the 4070 is 1151 USD. I hardly see a reason to save that 75 USD even if performance is just slightly worse. 75 USD alone is a sum of moeny, but when you are already spending 1100+ USD it is just not so much. If I have even one stutter with the 4070 I’d be thinking to myself that maybe, just maybe, I could have avoided it had I just waited and shelled out for the 4080.

I’m running a i7-10700k , would I be able to run the 4080 super with this cpu, would I get bottleneck, how about the 4070 ti super
Help before I throw money down the drain
Asus rog strix z590-a
I7-10700k
1070 ti
32 ram
Cpu 22%
GPU 97%
Vram 67%
Ram 36%
Fps 40-50
Direx 11
Lod 200 in both, and everything maxed out
But like we all say , this is not enough we want more , right?


I’d have no problem pairing a 4070 Ti Super with that CPU.

You didn’t mention your monitor setup.
My system is a 5800X3D and a 3090 Ti (comparable to the 4070 Ti Super performance.)

I have a 4K main and a 2K secondary monitor, and I get pretty balanced numbers. My GPU can get to working pretty hard in complex areas with a complex aircraft. But overall (in my humble opinion) I’m bottlenecked more by the sim code than any of my hardware.

Asus Rog Strix Z590-A
LG ultra wide 34 inches,
I will say I have no issues with the settings, most of my games run at 70-90 fps and I just want to make sure I don’t have to upgrade the mobo, which will be another 1000.
If so, I need to decide since I’ve always been with Intel.
, and yes, that will be another project.
AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D or I7-1300k


Do I need to Upgrade or is it just my nonsense in wanting, yes, I would like to see better graphics and I want to make a decision, but my discomfort is that the CPU does not dominate the graphics and therefore I will end up building a new rig, do you follow me?

Right now your cpu/gpu is most likely fairly balanced - you could verify this by turning on Dev mode in the sim and then selecting FPS counter in the debug drop down menu. The mainthread (cpu) and gpu render times will show how balanced they are.

With your current cpu, a 4070 TI Super would allow you to go with a full 4k HDR10 monitor/TV which would increase your immersion by leaps and bounds. While it would then make you cpu limited it will still improve your sim experience and not force you to upgrade your cpu immediately.

At some point down the road of your choosing, you could then update your cpu. This is exactly the strategy I took to slowly improve my PC over time in small, incremental steps.

Great, I’m going to look forward to it and see how well the update goes for me, I understand that I’m not the only one in the same boat and by being able to verify that if possible I will be able to help the next sim pilot, Gracias Amigo!!!