There are some cards missing here, but after freshly re-testing a couple of 30 Series cards I decided to stop before removing the RTX 3080 FE from my production machine to benchmark it on this new platform (for now, anyway). Why? Well, after looking at RTX 4070 performance I think it would have been redundant (outside of RTX/DLSS testing, anyway). You’ll see.
Also, we never received a 3080 12GB for review, and that’s the card I wanted to pit this 4070 against. In any case, even if I was “lazy” and didn’t lose even more sleep re-testing graphics cards, I don’t think anyone will be permanently scarred by the omission. Still, even if this new card ends up being around the performance level of an RTX 3080, we can’t forget things like DLSS 3.0 and Frame Generation, which you will need a 40 Series representative to enable.
I’m also writing this on Cyberpunk 2077 Overdrive Technology Preview launch day, and lamenting the lack of benchmarks for this review. Oh well…
