Synthetic Benchmarks
As always I like to start my testing with a few synthetic benchmarks. 3DMark especially is one of my favorites because it is very optimized in both Nvidia and AMD drivers. It's nice to not have to worry about it being favored too much either way and the repeatability of the results makes it a nice chance to compare from card to card, especially when comparing with the same GPU. In the case of the MSI RTX 4070 Ventus 3X, I have already taken a look at the RTX 4070 Founders Edition and they both have the same clock speeds. So I’m curious to see how the Ventus and the Founders Edition end up comparing.
The first round of tests were done in the older Fire Strike benchmark which is a DX11 test. There are three detail levels, performance, extreme, and ultra. The RTX 4070 Ventus sits above the Founders Edition 4070 in all three tests with a larger gap in the base Fire Strike test than I would have expected. This puts it behind the RTX 3080 still of course in all three tests.
The next two were both based on the Time Spy benchmark. One is the standard test and then there is the extreme detail level. The RTX 4070 Ventus came in behind the Founders Edition in both tests by a few points sitting right between the 4070 FE and the RTX 3080 in the base Time Spy test
I did also test using the new 3DMark Speed Way which is their latest benchmark. Speed Way is DX12 as well but combines in more future-focused tech like Ray Tracing which up until now 3DMark has only used in feature tests. Like with Time Spy the RTX 4070 Ventus is just a hair behind the Founders Edition card but not enough to make any difference at all. This puts both cards under the RTX 3080 and above the 6950 XT.
The last test was using the Unigine-based Superposition benchmark and I tested at 1080p with the extreme detail setting as well as the 4K optimized setting. In the extreme detail setting the RTX 4070 Ventus edged out the 4070 Founders Edition for the 1080p Extreme test and is 19 points behind it in the 4k Optimized test. This was behind the 6800 XT for both cards and ahead of the 3070 Ti.
