ASUS TUF Gaming NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti OC Edition Gaming Graphics Card (PCIe 4.0, 12GB GDDR6X, HDMI 2.1a, DisplayPort 1.4a) TUF-RTX4070TI-O12G-GAMING

Pros: 12 GB of VRAM appears to be enough for most games, even at 4K with ray tracing

Solid rasterization performance

Ray tracing uplift over Ampere/Turing is considerable

Easy 100+ fps in most games at 1440p ultrawide, difficult to drop below 60 fps at 4K

I tried DLSS 3 Frame Generation with Hitman 3 & Cyberpunk 2077; worked great for me

Card looks good, and runs too quiet for me to hear over my (somewhat noisy) case fans

Cons: I took a star off for the RGB logo that doesn't want to stay off, the power adapter that could be designed better, and the fact that even though MSRP is $800, there is no founder's edition card and thus no card that actually sells at MSRP.

I have an ASUS motherboard, so I didn't have to install any additional software to turn off the RGB logo on the side. However, every time I lock/log out of my PC, the RGB comes back on even though its still turned off in the software. I have to manual turn it back on and off for it to go off again. Weird and slightly annoying.

The new 16 pin power connector itself didn't bother me or give me any headaches, but the adapter would be much better if they just made the cables longer. Then you could tuck your 8 pin power cables out of the way. But no, its so short that your 8 pin cables are just hanging there under your GPU, looking all janky. I have since bought a Corsair 2x 8 pin to 16 pin 12VHPWR cable that cleans up the look considerably.

Expensive, but a better deal than the 4080 (which is a worse $/fps) and 4090 (which are always marked way above msrp). Also, it's irritating that with no shortage it sill impossible to buy a 4070 Ti at MSRP.

Overall Review: I have been hoping to by an Ampere card since the 3080 rolled out, and having waited for so long for the prices to come down, it didn't sit right with me to get my hands on a now 2 year old GPU at MSRP now that the miners and scalpers are finally done having their fun. Nope, not doing that. This is the first 40-series GPU to cost under $1000, and it has similar if not better performance to the last gen 3090. Good enough for me. It'd be nice if it was cheaper, but nVidia is going to do nVidia so whatever. Happy with my purchase.

Pros: Looks nice.

Cons: Defective upon arrival.

Overall Review: Tried in 2 different fully working computers, one AMD, other one Intel, changed the cables, made sure it was pushed in correctly but even after all this Windows / Nvidia/ AMD does not recognize the card at all. Used driver un-installer before reinstall. Unable to install drivers, screen goes black when attempted to install latest drivers. In Device manager card is not found. Shows basic Windows adaptor. Unable to switch resolution. Resolution stays at 1024x768. All options are greyed out.
When I swap it with a working system's ASUS RTX 3070t,i it is not found. Swap back in the 3070ti, computer works normal again. Returned for a replacement. I hope this one will be fine. Disappointed. Never had this happen.