GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super Gaming OC 16G Graphics Card, 3X WINDFORCE Fans, 16GB 256-bit GDDR6X, GV-N407TSGAMING OC-16GD Video Card

This card is quite the beast, both in the literal and metaphorical sense. It excels at any task you’d want a modern GPU to excel at. It runs games WELL above 60FPS with ultra settings and max raytracing at 1440p, It generates SDXL images in 6 seconds and Flux images in 25. It runs 7 billion parameter multimodal LLMs locally on my machine /without/ quantization. It is absolutely amazing what I can do with this piece of kit!

Gigabyte’s implementation is solid. The card is well built with a heavy solid backplate, windforce cooler, and 3x displayport plus 1x HDMI. It runs exceptionally cool – I’ve never seen it above 65C even in extremely heavy workloads. The RGB is simple and limited to the “GIGABYTE” logo on the top. Gigabyte’s software for controlling it is crap as usual, wouldn’t even install for me under Windows 11. Fortunately OpenRGB has support(on Linux, too!).

Overall a solid implementation of an amazing GPU. The cost is rough… the Nvidia tax is high. That’s the nature of things right now, especially if you work with a lot of AI. I rebuilt my machine on the x99 platform, opting to go with an overclocked 6900k and 32GB of DDR4 CL14 instead of something newer which allowed me to re use most of the build (I upgraded the CPU from a 5820k and the GPU from a 1070 TI, the rest reused) so I could dump as much budget as possible into the GPU. I do not regret this decision in the least, though I am planning to double the RAM within a few months because AI. I have seen the 6900k very occasionally limit this GPU in games, but only at frame rates that are already double my monitors refresh anyway e.g. >120fps. So even if you are on an older platform like that and maybe can’t afford to upgrade the whole thing like me… this GPU is still quite viable! PCIE gen 3 16X does not seem to limit it in the least. My benchmarks are as amazing as anyone else with this GPU!

As far as the good things go, at stock this card is insanely powerful, and really quite efficient. you get better performance than a 3090 ti, 16GB of vram, and a really good cooler. Things get even betger of you do any tuning. Although i only own one of these cards, it seems fairly common for them to do above 3ghz core clocks and completely max out the +2000 memory slider in afterburner, which is a bit crazy. My card manages this, and is totally stable at these settings falling only about 5.5% behind a full blown 4080 which is… incredible! Especially considering that this card was just a bit ove $750 open box.
On top of that, Gigabyte has a very nice 3y warranty, which while not the best that Nvidia’s board partners offer is certainly much better than the 2y periods that some offer. Just make sure to register your product woth Gigabyte’s warranty regustration website.
As far as negatives go, i only have two small gripes. The first is that for whatever reason Gigabyte decided to use sleeve bearing fans on such a high end card which are prone to wearing out and dying much faster than ball bearing fans. Fortunately, Gigabyte’s warranty should cover this, or if you feel so inclined, replacement fans are inexpensive and can be user serviced.
My second minor complaint (really two of then) is that the PCB has a surprisingly low layer count for the price, which isn’t strictly a bad thing, just a bit weird. And the inductors used are very low inductance which may lead to coil whine. Coil whine is one of those things that is not guaranteed, and my card does not suffer this issue fortunately. But this model may be somewhat more prone to these issues than other 4070 ti Super PCBs by other Nvidia board partners.
Overall, 4.85/5. Would be neat if Gigabyte made the perfect card, but oh well.

The card is great and works great. However I paid for new item and received an open box item.
My only option provided was a return instead of a replacement.

upgrading from a 3060 ti, i’m super satisfied with this card. it seriously gives you peace of mind when picking out what games to play, you don’t even need to glance at the minium specs. totally recommend

Solid board and a good layout. Used it in a Lilan-Li Lancool 216 build.