In-Game Benchmarks

Now we finally get into the in game performance and that is the main reason people pick up a new video card. To test things out I ran through our new benchmark suite that tests 10 games at three different resolutions (1080p, 1440p, and 4k). Most of the games tested have been run at the highest detail setting and a mid-range detail setting to get a look at how turning things up hurts performance and to give an idea of if turning detail down from max will be beneficial for frame rates. In total, each video card is tested 54 times and that makes for a huge mess of results when you put them all together. To help with that I like to start with these overall playability graphs that take all of the results and give an easier-to-read result. I have one for each of the three resolutions and each is broken up into four FPS ranges. Under 30 FPS is considered unplayable, over 30 is playable but not ideal, over 60 is the sweet spot, and then over 120 FPS is for high refresh rate monitors.

So how did the Zotac RTX 4070 Amp Airo do in our overall resolution breakdown? Well at 1080p there weren’t any surprises, all of the games tested came in at over 120 FPS with three of those even reaching up over 240 FPS. Then at 1440p which is Nvidia’s target resolution for the RTX 4070 the Zotac RTX 4070 Amp Airo again had everything in the playable range. This time with four down in the 60-119 range. 10 results were over 120 FPS and then two were over 240 still. This is the same as I saw with the other RTX 4070s but the Borderlands 3 ultra detail result came as close as you can get from tipping the chart into having another over 120 FP with its 119.9 FPS result. Last up at 4K the Zotac RTX 4070 Amp Airo still did well as well, even though it isn’t its target resolution. Two results were in the 30-59 FPS range which isn’t ideal but can still be playable. Two were over 120 FPS and then the other 12 results were all over 60 FPS and under 120 FPS.

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Because I wanted to get a closer look at how the Zotac RTX 4070 Amp Airo compares with the other RTX 4070s as well as a few of the other cards that are close in performance or pricing I put together a table showing the overall average frame rates. I did exclude the GS:GO results from this one as it is always so high that it skews the results and would make some results look better than the reality. It isn’t a surprise though that the Zotac RTX 4070 Amp Airo outperformed the other two RTX 4070s but I was surprised by just how much. At 1080p it was a full three FPS higher or 1.6% better than the Founders Edition. The gap at 1440p was smaller with .7% or 1 FPS and then 1.2% at 4K with 1 FPS there as well. Overclocked cards don’t get you a HUGE improvement over stock-clocked cards but the Zotac RTX 4070 Amp Airo was surprisingly consistent, especially considering the 60 MHz overclock isn’t a big one overall, so I am curious to see later if the power profile or cooling is also contributing to that as well. Beyond the 4070s the Zotac RTX 4070 Amp Airo sits ahead of the RTX 3080 at 1080p and 1440p but doesn’t make up the difference at 4k and the two AMD cards are still well out in front with this raster performance at all three resolutions. Beyond that, I do have the individual results below, but the averages and the charts above sum up what you will see there and I didn’t see any weird results.

Average FPS (w/o CS:GO)

1080p

1440p

4K

RTX 3070 TI

165.78

126.73

74.2

RTX 3080

188.35

148.9

89.9

RTX 4070

190.62

148.64

83.48

MSI RTX 4070 Ventus 3X

190.89

148.96

83.98

Zotac RTX 4070 Amp Airo

193.71

149.69

84.51

6800 XT

197.08

162.35

92.37

6950 XT

205.27

177.19

105.8

4070 Ti

212.87

174.42

103.72

 

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