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MaxSun's RTX 4070 Super graphics card is different in that it avoids the 16-pin power connector
MaxSun's RTX 4070 Super iCraft graphics card is notably different to all the other 4070 Super models now out there in that it sticks with a dual 8-pin power connector.
As HXL, a regular leaker on X (formerly Twitter), pointed out, the iCraft version of the RTX 4070 Super has an 8-pin + 8-pin setup rather than the 16-pin (12VHPWR) power connector seen on every other RTX 4070 Super model (at least to our knowledge).
Indeed, as VideoCardz, which spotted the above tweet, made clear, the thinking was NVIDIA had made it compulsory for third-party graphics card makers to use the 16-pin connector on their RTX 4070 Super boards, and they all do. Well, save for this one apparent exception from MaxSun, of course.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090M, RTX 4080M appear in China: laptop GPUs marketed as desktop GPUs
NVIDIA's current-generation GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop GPU and GeForce RTX 4080 Laptop GPU can now be found inside desktop GPUs, at least in China.
According to a new article on VideoCardz, Chinese companies that specialize in marketing mobile GPUs as desktop GPUs with a low operating margin by using less expensive mobile GPUs, budget cooling designs, and simpler PCBs, with their power limits capped at 175W because they are mobile GPUs.
This isn't all sunshine and rainbows, as there are things like warranty that gamers have to worry about, as well as possible issues when it comes to driver support. VideoCardz reports that they get emails from readers who have "difficulties" with using these cards. Consumers of these mobile-now-desktop GPUs have to use modded drivers or seller-provided drivers that we don't know where they come from.
GALAX GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER HOF OC Lab 'Master-X' announced with 320W TGP, 211MHz+ OC
GALAX has introduced its new GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER HOF OC Lab Master-X and Master Edition graphics cards, with a beautiful all-white look GALAX is known for... check them out:
The GALAX HOF (Hall of Fame) graphics cards are now rolling out in new RTX 40 SUPER series cards now that NVIDIA has introduced its new GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER, RTX 4070 Ti SUPER, and RTX 4080 SUPER graphics cards into the wild. GALAX is introducing a new look for its HOF OC Lab series graphics cards, with plans to release all RTX 40 SUPER cards, starting with the RTX 4070 SUPER.
Inside, the new GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER features the AD104-350 GPU with 7168 CUDA cores, which is a 20% bump over the RTX 4070, with the same 12GB of GDDR6 memory as the RTX 4070 non-SUPER. NVIDIA has a reference boost GPU clock of 2475MHz for its RTX 4070 SUPER, while GALAX is offering the fastest GPU boosts for an RTX 4070 SUPER so far with its new GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER HOF OC Lab Master Edition graphics card.
NVIDIA's RTX 4070 Super is below MSRP already in Europe - another hint this GPU is struggling?
NVIDIA's RTX 4070 Super is only just out - literally yesterday - but this graphics card has already sunk below its MSRP, although not in the US, mind.
In Europe we've seen price tags drop below the recommended pricing set by NVIDIA, and as VideoCardz (and Wccftech, 3DCenter) made clear, this has happened in three countries.
Firstly, in Poland, an online retailer has dropped the price of an RTX 4070 Super by 5% under the local MSRP - that's for a Gainward model (Ghost).
Got your heart set on an NVIDIA RTX 4070 Ti Super? Sadly this GPU could be tricky to buy
NVIDIA's RTX 4070 Ti Super could be difficult to get your hands on, or at least stock levels might be shaky according to a new rumor, so a decent level of demand may see the graphics cards soon vanish from shelves when it's released.
That's the theory floated by Moore's Law is Dead (MLID) in his latest YouTube video which explores the RTX 4070 Super launch primarily - spoiler alert: it went badly with sluggish sales if retail and distributor sources are to be believed - but it also touches on the other new RTX Super refreshes which aren't out yet.
We're focusing on what MLID says about the RTX 4070 Ti Super in particular here, which is the next of NVIDIA's refreshes to arrive, landing next week on January 24 (to be followed by the RTX 4080 Super at the very end of the month).
SPARKLE has new low-profile Intel Arc A380 GENIE and Arc A310 ECO graphics cards coming
SPARKLE has added a pair of new Intel Arc GPUs to its line-up, this time in the form of a few low-profile offerings that would suit SFF builds or something like a home theater PC. The SPARKLE Intel Arc A310 ECO is a low-profile, single-slot, single-fan GPU with a reduced 50W power profile, while the SPARKLE Intel Arc A380 GENIE is a 75W low-profile, dual-slot, dual-fan GPU.
Outside of the awesome all-blue SPARKLE Arc aesthetic, what's impressive is that both don't need anything in the way of external power from a PSU while offering three display outputs with 1 x HDMI and 2 x mini-DisplayPort connectors on the back.
As a 4GB card with only 124 GB/s of memory bandwidth on a 64-bit bus, the SPARKLE Intel Arc A310 ECO isn't designed for gaming, but with AV1 hardware encoding and AI hardware, it should be decent for light workloads. The SPARKLE Intel Arc A380 GENIE includes 6GB of memory on a faster 96-bit bus to handle some low-fidelity gaming.
ASUS TUF Gaming RTX 4070 SUPER OC Edition pushes performance to 4070 Ti and 7900 XT levels
With our reviews of the GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER Founders Edition and the INNO3D GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER TWIN X2, we got a good look at what the reference design delivered over the existing GeForce RTX 4070. And yes, the pre-release hype was real - 1440p gaming performance faster than the previous generation flagship GeForce RTX 3090.
Throw in no price increase over the RTX 4070 launch MSRP, and the compact, super-efficient designs make the first SUPER GPU for the 40 Series pretty exciting.
As with all GPUs, there are multiple models, cards with more premium cooling, overclocked specs, and more. Today, our full review of the ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER OC Edition has gone live, and it's like getting a bonus chapter or SUPER-hero post-credits scene that adds to the story.
Top-end GIGABYTE RTX 4070 Super GPU looks tempting - it's very nearly as fast as an RTX 4070 Ti
NVIDIA's RTX 4070 Super is on sale and reviews of different models are everywhere (we've got a write-up of the Founders Edition and a third-party INNO3D version of this graphics card too).
TechPowerUp turned up an interesting finding, though (hat tip to VideoCardz), namely that there are two RTX 4070 Super models that sport a TDP of 245W at stock - GIGABYTE's AORUS Master and Palit's Jetstream cards.
The Founders Edition is pitched at 220W (up from 200W with the RTX 4070), and the max power usage cap for NVIDIA's own variant is 240W, so by default, these third-party boards are slightly exceeding that.
NVIDIA's new driver brings RTX 4070 Super support, and 100+ games now have Reflex tech
NVIDIA has a fresh Game Ready driver out which introduces support for the new RTX 4070 Super that just hit shelves today, plus it does a fair bit more besides.
Driver version 546.65 ensures that owners of a shiny new RTX 4070 Super GPU are catered for as mentioned, and also optimizes performance for Palworld, introducing DLSS 2 for this game.
Palworld (pictured top of this article) is an open world multiplayer survival game built around collecting monsters and crafting. You can capture these beasts, fight with them, force them to work, sell them, or indeed slaughter them for food, so, yes - there are options for your poor monster minions.
GALAX GeForce RTX 4090D is 5% slower for gaming and 10% slower for AI when compared to RTX 4090
After new US sanctions on GPU hardware effectively banned NVIDIA's flagship GeForce RTX 4090 from being sold in China, it didn't take long for the company to quietly announce a special cut-down model for the region called the GeForce RTX 4090D.
With fewer CUDA Cores, RT Cores, and Tensor Cores compared to the baseline GeForce RTX 4090 but the same price, we now know the impact on performance. And it's not too bad, and certainly not a massive nerf.
With a new GALAX RTX 4090 D Metal Master card put to the test by Expreview, it turns out that it's only 5.5% slower on average for rasterized gaming, which increases slightly to 5.8% when turning on ray-tracing. However, this gap drops to 5% when DLSS 3 Frame Generation is enabled. Either way, 5% makes the new GeForce RTX 4090 D similar to the RTX 4090 - with the difference barely noticeable for gaming workloads.