MSI GeForce RTX 4070 Ti VENTUS 3X 12G OC (912-V513-088)

MSI's 2023 top-of-the-line, large-sized gaming graphics card based on NVIDIA's advanced Ada Lovelace microarchitecture (5nm, 2022). It occupies one of the leading positions in the "four thousandth" line of NVIDIA video cards, in terms of pure power it is second only to the flagship models RTX 4080 and 4090. It is aimed at demanding gamers and enthusiasts who plan to play in 2K resolution and do not want to sacrifice graphics quality.

At the same time, it is quite suitable for games in 4K, but in this case you will have to play with the graphics settings and DLSS to find the optimal balance between beauty and the smoothness of the gameplay. It can also serve as an assistant for photo and video processing, editing, three-dimensional modeling and other resource-intensive tasks. The design of the RTX 4070 Ti largely repeats the RTX 3070 Ti by VENTUS, which was released in 2021: the 31 cm board is covered by a three-slot cooling system with three fourth-generation Torx Fans, a reinforced metal backplate and a massive heatsink with a scattering of heat pipes.

The card occupies 2.5 slots of the motherboard, and for processing lighting and reflection, it provides separate third-generation RT cores. The heart of the video card is the AD104 chip with 7680 CUDA cores, overclocked to 2655 MHz GPU and 12 GB of GDDR6X video memory with support for a 192-bit data bus. Like all representatives of the NVIDIA Ada Lovelace family, this GPU supports hardware ray tracing and DLSS 3.0 smart scaling system, which provides noticeable acceleration in games where this algorithm is implemented.

In gaming tests, it outperforms its predecessor RTX 3070 Ti by 35-40%, depending on the selected resolution. When using DLSS 3.0, the difference grows even stronger. Recall that the previous generation GPUs only support DLSS 2.0, which does not support the Optical Flow engine and generally works less efficiently and efficiently. The manufacturer positions it as the optimal solution for gaming PCs and workstations with full-size cases, ATX format motherboards and 700W power supplies.