this is an RTX 4070 Founders Edition the
first 40 series card actually getting
somewhere near that wonderful 500 price point for a graphics card it's cool but
you know what it's not as cool as these ASUS add-in board partner RTX
4070s with bigger coolers overclocking
and our look at it today is sponsored by ASUS so we actually get to to try these
out and see how they compare to the founders cards with a little bit of
gaming a little bit of unboxing we've got two of ASUS's 4070s here today this
one is the Dual it's got two fans as the
name implies it's the more affordable version it matches the MSRP of the
founders card it's still got lots of cooling it's still got two fans it's
lots of i o it's a it's an ASUS card so it's going to perform great and then
this is the bigger one it's not quite strict here but it is tough so they use
high quality components it's got a much bigger cooler three fans it's got
pass-through cooling like the founders card they still wow is that an eight pin
they both just use an eight pin hey yeah they both use just a single eight pin
power connector which is great if you have a power supply that might only have
one or something that's a little bit lower wattage the founders card is the
high power 12 pin connector but it does come with an adapter however that
adapter needs two eight pins this is just one which is great for
compatibility like if you don't need it why would you bother including right
let's get one of them open I like the tough one this is the fancy one I'm
definitely more of a fancy products kind of guy
there's a graphics card in here no way
all right tough card anything else in
here usual propaganda oh they're little like
cardboard cutouts is this like functional for something ASUS always has
these cool little like I don't know little freebie things in the boxes
they'll give you big sticker packs or like just cool little cute things is
this a phone holder this might be a phone holder look at that wonderful
certificate of reliability oh that's kind of cute what else is in here oh
there's a this what is this oh yeah look
at that it looks like a tire pressure gauge but it is actually
whoa is that a screw what it's a
screwdriver too I've never taken this out before it's a
graphics card like anti-sag little Mount
that you put under your GPU I didn't know it was also a screwdriver that's
kind of cool so I guess everything you need to install this graphics card comes
in the Box look you can even put it in the handle and then you got a handle for
the screw all right the Dual both of these cards have 12 gigabytes of gddr6
and memory like every other 4070 they
have a TDP of 200 watts each which
um I mean means you can like I said before you can use it with a pretty not
beefy power supply which is really nice there's more stuff oh is this another
phone holder Bell now you can have one here
quick start guide how to install a graphics card in a book cool
I'm so excited that there's peels ASUS always has so many peels
this little screwdriver is very helpful fan size wise Founders Edition is still
the smallest this is a bit bigger but not crazy and then of course the tough
is the big boy it's large but it also means it's going to be very quiet and
very cool the founders Edition is a true two slot card the Dual is a little bit
bigger so it's like a two point all right 2.5 slot card it is pretty tall
too and the tough It's hard to say but I'm gonna
go with like a a 3.1 slot cooler hey look I was almost
right the tough card is 3.15 slots according to ASUS it's like this bottom
part is probably the the 0.15 you only need the two actual physical slots but
you are gonna need enough space to fit this card in with the big honk and
cooler on there in terms of the Dual it's got an aluminum backplate which is
really nice to see on a budget card like this the two fans we mentioned earlier
they're 11 blades each it has a dual buy-off switch which is nice because
you're gonna have like performance mode and quiet mode if you want it to be
quieter it'll have the clock speed limits and the power limits set a little
bit lower to decrease the noise or if you're like in a small form factor build
it might be something you want to try to use other than that it's just a nice
cute little cooler it's very short by five years ago standards this was a big
card but nowadays I mean look
it's only 267 millimeters long which in
terms of compatibility will fit in a lot more cases it does also have the airflow
pass through over here like we've been seeing on the founders cards for the
last you know last little while oh yeah I guess IO is
another thing three DisplayPort 2 HDMI on the Dual
and it's the same on the tough the tough has three of the 11 blade axial tech
fans and is just one millimeter over
300. it's It's 301 millimeters it also
has a dual BIOS switch just like the Dual so you've got quiet in performance
mode it has a new fancy where's the tough logo on here so this is an argb
tough logo which is kind of cute I mean design wise I like it I mean this is
what you're going to see in your computer a normal computer and it it looks nice I like it I'm not a
huge fan of cards that are like super RGB and this is nice and clean and
simple which is usually they're tough kind of look this one very similar just
blacked out however you can get this card in white soon which is kind of cool
if you have like an all-white build this would look pretty sweet in there cool I
guess let's put in a computer the Dual we have is the non-oc Dual but the tough
card is the OC which is the overclocked version we get 105 megahertz over the
founders card which is you know that's the megahertz
boom graphics card it's crazy in 2023 to
be plugging in one power connector only
this computer doesn't have a power button so I figured I'd use my little
screwdriver hey look at that oh look at the it's so
cute can you see that I lied it's more than the logo it's this bar too that is
a appropriate amount of RGB compared to this we got GPU tweak 3 installed here
which is ASUS is new well GPU tweaking software and I was trying to figure out
how do you put this thing in OC mode oh look right there OC mode done that's it
it increased our our megahertz 30. look
at that you can also do cool things like you just set the power Target like
higher or I'm not gonna do that I'm just gonna put it in OC mode and leave it
there and then we can we can play some games just for clarification for
anything further this is gonna be running at 1440p it's a 4k monitor but I
just changed the resolution I want to try furmark I want to just like make
this thing hurt a little bit and see what it does GPU boost clock yeah
AAA sure why not why not 4x8 yeah man
this thing sips power it only draws 200 Watts that's it
GPU performance limiters we are limited by power makes sense we'll just let that
simmer for a minute look at that that's so cool you can see that it's drawing
140 Watts from the eight pin power connector 141 Watts
whatever PCIe slot is providing 58 59
Watts a lot of sensors on these things nowadays it seems like we've leveled off
at this point it's not in a case obviously that's that's going to be a
big factor as soon as you put a box around whatever product you're heating
up there's a lot more thermal constraints but on this open air test bench in the room it's about 21 degrees
in here 56 degrees on the GPU the fan I
don't even hear it
I actually hear like the the vrm noise
from the motherboard like coil wine louder than I hear the graphics card
Advance which is really impressive it's kicking off you know a fair bit of heat
but then again it's only 200 Watts which for a modern graphics card is is very
efficient and a lot of that is because of NVIDIA's new Ada Lovelace
architecture you're also going to get things like DLS S3 which is great if you
want to say Ray trace and you don't want to spend 1500 on a graphics card well
this 680 dollar one can probably run
those games Ray traced with dlss frame
generation and still look really good but yeah overall it's very quiet very
cool open air but yeah the clock speed too where we are running at yeah 2760
2770 we were power limited which makes sense it is set to a 200 watt power
limit we could go in in GPU tweak and turn our power Target up to like 110. I
see it looks like 108 is the max but I'm just gonna leave it for now
because we want to see what this is like stock mind you stock but in the OC
profile let's try cyberpunk oh we're boosting higher 28.35 let's go wait
28.35 damn boy that's some clock speed was it
supposed to be 2580 GPU boost is is
doing its thing it's giving us the Boost we're in cyberpunk we're on Ray traced
Ultra quality profile 1440p
and we're getting 40 47 FPS 48 FPS
there's no DLS that's on right now no frame generation no super sampling
nothing this is just the raw performance of the car which to be honest at 1440p
basically Max settings very good totally
playable but if we go let's turn frame gen on
and we'll leave it on auto I think now
how many FPS do we get well it's way smoother
130 135 what was that at Before 40 three
times the FPS that's a that's a lot more
FPS and it looks good like it doesn't feel
like super slow like the latency is
almost so little that I don't even notice it especially in a game like this
this would not bug me at all it's quiet the whole time too I mean let's see what
kind of clock speeds we're getting GPU boost is obviously going to go crazy
we're getting 28 65 megahertz on the GPU
it looks like Peak there's sometimes we're at like 28.50 GPU boost is
obviously going to go past what the default boost is you know depending on
where you are in this scene this is probably where I was changing settings but around 190 200 Watts Temps
55 56 like we were seeing in for Market again it was super quiet the whole time
this is a great cooler for sure and good performance
in terms of pricing like I mentioned before this tough OC is 680 and the Dual
Nano C so there's an OC version but this is the non-oc 600 US Dollars which is
the same as the founders card the Dual comes in white or black like we
mentioned before the tough only comes in Black these are both available right now
so you can go and pick one up at the link down in the description or if you want to wait for the strix cards or the
white version of the Dual they're going to be coming later this month and that's pretty much all there is to say it's
it's a great cooler it's quiet it's fast it's thanks to ASUS for sponsoring this
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