Thorough comparison of the processing performance of 'GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER' and 'GeForce RTX 3090' using various benchmarks & checking all of the heat distribution, fan noise, and power consumption A comprehensive review
'GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER' released on January 17, 2024 has an increased number of CUDA cores compared to 'GeForce RTX 4070' and is said to exhibit processing performance equivalent to 'GeForce RTX 3090'. I was able to borrow the 'GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER Founders Edition', which is a reference implementation of such 'GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER', so after
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'GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER Founders Edition' is a genuine NVIDIA graphics board that uses GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER. You can check the appearance of GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER Founders Edition and how to handle it when putting it in a case in the article below. This time, I will run benchmarks on a PC equipped with GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER Founders Edition and measure temperature and heat under high load.
I checked the appearance and compatibility with the case of NVIDIA genuine graphics card 'GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER Founders Edition' - GIGAZINE
◆Verification environment
The configuration of the PC used for verification is as follows. I am using the press version 511.15 of the GPU driver.
| graphic board | GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER Founders Edition |
| CPU | AMD Ryzen 5 7600X BOX |
| motherboard | X670E Taichi Carrara |
| memory | Crucial CT16G48C40U5 PC5-38400 (DDR5-4800) 288pin DDR5 UDIMM 16GB |
| storage | WD_BLACK SN750 NVMe |
| OS | Windows 11 Pro 64bit |
This time, we also prepared 'GeForce RTX 3090 GD3090-24GEBST' (bottom) to compare the performance with GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER Founders Edition (top).
◆Results of various benchmarks
GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER Founders Edition (hereinafter referred to as RTX 4070 SUPER) The following is the result of running '
As a result of running the benchmark with the same settings on GeForce RTX 3090 GD3090-24GEBST (hereinafter referred to as RTX 3090), the score was 8295 points.
As a result of running the official benchmark ' Superposition benchmark ' of the game engine 'UNIGINE' with the resolution set to 8K and the API set to DirectX, the score on the RTX 4070 SUPER was 5859 points.
On the other hand, the RTX 3090 scored 7020 points.
Below are the execution results of
On the RTX 3090, 'monster' was 2624.785541 frames per minute, 'junkshop' was 1589.609927 frames per minute, and 'classroom' was 1414.669101 frames per minute.
Below are the scores when running the OpenGL version MSI-01 benchmark at a resolution of 3840 x 2160 pixels (4K) using MSI's benchmark tool '
The RTX 3090 had 3701 points.
Below are the results of investigating the hash rate of RandomX in the virtual currency mining tool ' XMRig '. The hash rate of RTX 4070 SUPER was up to 2228.2H/s.
The hash rate of RTX 3090 was 2134.5H/s.
After running multiple benchmark tests, the RTX 4070 SUPER scored higher than the RTX 3090 in most tests except the Superposition benchmark.
◆Check GPU temperature and power consumption with nvidia-smi
I tried measuring GPU temperature and power consumption with NVIDIA's official GPU management tool '
The measurement results with RTX 4070 SUPER are below. Fan rotation speed was 48%, GPU temperature was 76 degrees, and power consumption was 218W.
On the other hand, the RTX 3090's fan speed was 78%, GPU temperature was 75 degrees, and power consumption was 343W. In other words, the RTX 4070 SUPER can deliver the same or higher processing performance than the RTX 3090 with lower power consumption.
◆Check for noise caused by fan rotation
When the RTX 4070 SUPER is idle, the fan stops rotating, and there is no noise coming from the graphics board fan.
In order to measure fan noise under high load, we kept the GPU usage at 100% in MSI Kombustor's stress test mode with the PC case closed and the fan spinning.
After 5 minutes with GPU usage at 100%, I removed the case cover and measured the noise, and the noise at a position 10 cm from the graphic board exhaust hole was 53.5 dBA.
By the way, the noise level a few centimeters from the case fan is 52.0dBA. The noise coming from the RTX 4070 SUPER is about the same as the noise coming from other fans, so you won't have to worry about the noise coming from the graphics board even if you remove the cover of your PC case.
◆Check the temperature under high load using infrared thermography
After closing the PC case cover and keeping the GPU usage at 100% for 5 minutes, I removed the cover and measured the temperature of the graphic board using infrared thermography.
The temperature of the exhaust hole is 63.3 degrees.
The temperature of the part where the melting problem occurred in GeForce RTX 4090 was 72.4 degrees.
The temperature of the back panel is 63.0 degrees.
The temperature of the fan part was 60.3 degrees.
・Continued
We have published an article that verifies the performance of image generation AI when operating on GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER.
How much performance does 'GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER' with 12GB of VRAM capacity demonstrate in image generation AI? A thorough comparison review with the previous generation Grabo - GIGAZINE
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