MSI, Gigabyte, PNY, ASUS, ASRock....

[Chuckmiller1964]

If the cards all use the same GPU, lets say an RTX 4070, then what's the difference? Do it matter what brand you buy? 

[NumLock21]

The overall design of the entire card.

[Hinjima]

13 minutes ago, Chuckmiller1964 said:

If the cards all use the same GPU, lets say an RTX 4070, then what's the difference? Do it matter what brand you buy? 

Some cards have better coolers than others.

Some cards are more quiet.  Better coolers and less noisy fans is one thing I look out for since I like to overclock and I hate fan noise.

Some cards have RGB and different aesthetics.

But overall, the performance should be very similar if not identical.

 

You can check this roundup by TechTesters ( They test a lot of cards this way )

This is a 4070 Ti Super roundup but you'll get the idea.

They test core clocks, performance, noise levels, thermals etc.

 

[PaulFCB]

 Won't make a difference on this class of cards if you buy the cheapest you are in advantage, only thing I look at that it has 3 instead of 2 years of warranty, lately they almost all sell with 36 months here in Europe.

 

 As for the 4070 Ti Super, same thing, those cards are 3 fans long, 3 slot thick, when the card itself hardly half the f length of the cooler itself. Just a waste of space and marketing them as being premium products that would be necessary on a 4090's or future 5090's but on a midend it's just incremental.

[Hinjima]

22 minutes ago, PaulFCB said:

 Won't make a difference on this class of cards if you buy the cheapest you are in advantage, only thing I look at that it has 3 instead of 2 years of warranty, lately they almost all sell with 36 months here in Europe.

 

 As for the 4070 Ti Super, same thing, those cards are 3 fans long, 3 slot thick, when the card itself hardly half the f length of the cooler itself. Just a waste of space and marketing them as being premium products that would be necessary on a 4090's or future 5090's but on a midend it's just incremental.

Plenty of dual fan 4070 Ti Supers and we have started to see 2-2.5 slot cards as well.

I wouldn't call a bigger cooler ' waste of space' 

I want the best cooling possible with the lowest amount of noise so a thick heatsink definitely help.

[AMixOfGeekContent]

18 hours ago, Chuckmiller1964 said:

If the cards all use the same GPU, lets say an RTX 4070, then what's the difference? Do it matter what brand you buy? 

I personally would look up on reddit, here, youtubers and the comments etc, the specific brand and model of a gpu before buying it just to make sure it's not having widespread issues (e.g. Intel's 13th and 14th gen cpus, Samsung 990 pro nvme's, other nvme's with Phison E18 controllers, tho the nvme issues were fixed afaik). From what I heard, some companies take responsibility, while others will avoid it and try to reject rma requests.

 

Edit: Could the cheapest 4070 get thermal throttled? If so, it wouldn't run at full speed, which might suck.

[Salted Spinach]

You tell me

https://www.techspot.com/review/2894-geforce-rtx-4070-gddr6/

[AMixOfGeekContent]

11 hours ago, Salted Spinach said:

You tell me

https://www.techspot.com/review/2894-geforce-rtx-4070-gddr6/

Ah i forgot about this, lol. Slightly slower, same price. By itself, it's not that bad. But I just hope it doesn't lead to even worse misleading stuff

[Spring1898]

RIP EVGA

 

There is a lot less difference than there used to be back in the day and there are certain requirements that each manufacturer has to comply with, but some make smaller or lower power variations also for specific use cases but in the middle toward upper end much less difference is present 

[AMixOfGeekContent]

21 hours ago, Spring1898 said:

RIP EVGA

 

There is a lot less difference than there used to be back in the day and there are certain requirements that each manufacturer has to comply with, but some make smaller or lower power variations also for specific use cases but in the middle toward upper end much less difference is present 

Oh so, for example, would a low profile version of a graphics card maybe use less power and thus perform a bit less, but that's what they gotta do to fit it in small form cases with acceptable temps?

[Spring1898]

It would likely be more thermally limited, not boost as high, and perform slightly less than a full size counterpart 

 

It may also have a cheaper cooling set up.

 

Technically yes this may cause it to draw less power, but this would be the result of it hemming its thermal limit before being able to draw full power, not because it is designed that way. All cards are designed to work within Nvidia specified thermal limits with only certain exceptions, as this would end up turning into a power war between the companies. So they can only be allowed to draw certain amount of power by Nvidia