While RTX 4070 Ti Super provides a welcome, albeit modest, uplift over RTX 4070 Ti, there’s sadly little room to push performance further via overclocking. However, two modders have now shown how much more you can get out of the Nvidia graphics card when equipping it with faster memory modules. The improvement is so sizable, in fact, that it outperforms RTX 4080.
In our GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super review, we found overclocking the Nvidia graphics card’s memory modules to 23Gbps (up from 22Gbps) netted a minor 3% boost to Time Spy Extreme Scores. This performance is still well short of what we noted in our GeForce RTX 4080 review, but taking more extreme measures with faster memory modules appears to provide more compelling results in some benchmarks.
Hardware overlocking team Teclab recently dismantled a Galax GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super EX Gamer White, upgrading the graphics card’s stock 21Gbps memory modules with 24Gbps replacements. Going one step further, Teclab was able to put an overlcock on top, surpassing 26Gbps. This is no simple task, though, requiring the likes of a microscope, solder iron, and the technical know-how to tinker with memory straps. All in a day’s work for a team whose previous claims to fame include overclocking GeForce RTX 4090 to 3.45GHz.
Teclab’s hard work pays off, though. Comparing scores in Unigine’s Superposition benchmark, the team netted a whopping 30% gain, from 7,028 points to 9,133. More impressive still, this score was achieved using Superposition’s ‘8K Optimized’ shader preset, to push the card’s memory as hard as possible. Naturally, the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super had a suitably powerful test rig supporting it, including an Intel Core i9 13900KF processor and 32GB of DDR5 RAM.
Impressive as these scores are, we sadly can’t extrapolate with any certainty how these gains translate in terms of gaming performance. That said, GeForce RTX 5080 is expected to use 28Gbps GDDR7 memory modules, which should greatly alleviate any memory-related bottlenecks providing the card’s capacity doesn’t leave games wanting (particularly at higher resolutions.)
In the meantime, if all this talk of overclocking has you hankering for an upgrade, check out our best graphics card guide for the latest and greatest recommendations. For those of you who don’t mind waiting, though, we expect Nvidia will reveal more about its upcoming GeForce RTX 50 series at Computex. Until then, give our GeForce RTX 4090 review a read to refresh your mind on the capabilities of the company’s most powerful pixel pusher.
