PNY GeForce RTX 4070 Ti 12GB XLR8 Gaming Verto Epic-X RGB Triple Fan Graphics Card DLSS 3

While people continue to complain that their PC games like Oblivion, Shadows, Starfield, Ghost of Tsushima, etc, are too laggy on their (potato) computers, I get zero lag, and straight buttery smooth performance.No regrets buying this for my custom built PC.

Upgraded from an EVGA 2080ti XC ultra, which provided terrific service for 5 years, and could probably go another 5 or longer. I’m 67 years old, an in my retirement decided to take the plunge into an 800 dollar pool of graphics technology. Folks complain about the price, and rightfully so, but I paid 1200 bucks for the 2080ti new. That’s the market, which by all indicators is not going to change. What changed in this case was the third party manufacturer – not EVGA (of course), Asus, Gigabyte, MSI, Zotac, et al…but instead, PNY.PNY…hmmm. Well, why not. The Asus TUF version was the same price, but waiting a month wasn’t appealing. Getting a hold of the PNY in 2 days was. So, after researching a little bit for reviews of the PNY model, which in all cases were glowing (except for complaints about the cost), decided to give it a try.So far so good! First of all, I do more productivity stuff like video editing and encoding, 3D rendering, and Paintshop, than gaming. That the memory bus width on this card is 192bit and not 352bit like the 2080ti worried me a little, but not anymore. Encoding and rendering times were substantially lower, 20-30 percent depending on the application. Not bad.Of course, the kid in me ran the card through the 3DMark gamut just for fun. The particular card I bought overclocks to +205 Mhz GPU clock and +1300 Mhz MEM clock stable, anything above either setting crashes it...your results may differ a bit, depending on your luck with the silicon lottery. I DO NOT RECOMMEND you try this, at the risk of voiding your warranty if physical damage occurs as a result, regardless of what make you buy. These cards have a failsafe that shuts it down before that can happen, but you never know. Anyway, my benchmark results were good enough to get me a number 1 ranking on Time Spy or Time Spy Extreme, can’t remember, on similar systems (4070ti + I7 12700K). If you have a 3dMark account, take a look :)Other thoughts:1. The unit is bulky, long, heavy, and takes up 3 slots of mobo space, due to its enormous cooler. Ships with a support bracket if you’re worried about sagging. I used tie wraps attached to a drive cage. Looks weird, but works.2. Very quiet, surprisingly. I’m using a custom fan curve with MSI Afterburner that keeps the fans off until 35 degrees (Celsius). Idles at 27-30 degrees depending on ambient temp. At 50% fans, just airflow noise…no discernible coil whine (but these are 67 year old ears)3.When outrageously OCing, reached 280W. As I type this, a quick look at hardware monitor shows 4.2 watts at 31 degrees, no fans running per above. Btw default is 30% fans (1000rpm) ramping up with temp.4. System: I7-12700K, this graphics card, Asus TUF z690 DDR5 mobo, 32Gb TeamGroup T-force DDR5-5200 RAM, Samsung 980 Pro 2TB M.2 system drive, Scythe Fuma2 air cooling, Corsair HX850W Platinum power supply.Overall, I’m impressed with the PNY version and will give it 5 stars. If something occurs later with this graphics card that’s un-impressing, I will update this review.2 1/2 Months later..nothing to report. Everything's fine. My only beef with PNY is trying to sell a factory overclocked card for 50 bucks more. In short, it's the EXACT SAME card with altered firmware. I retired from IT and industrial electronics after 40 years, and I can tell you you're wasting 50 bucks on the OCed version. You can easily OC to the more expensive version, and way beyond, with software tools like Afterburner. Having said this, I still admire PNY for manufacturing what has been an excellent version of Nvidia's 4070ti architecture, which originally was supposed to be the 4080 12GB. This is an NVidia thing, not PNY. If you are playing games or rendering models, this is, in MHO, all you need.

Tried and true. This puppy runs like a dream, and is well worth the money. It's a great graphics card. And runs pretty fast. I'm happy with the value. It functions well runs very stable. no lag or flicker. I don't need to use my memory plenty of vram.

works great

PNY RELIABILITY - I had no initial hesitations when purchasing this PNY-version RTX 4070 Ti. I currently own a PNY-brand GTX 970, which still works fine to this day. Of course, I had far more apprehensions back then, when I first spent hundreds of dollars for that 970. Now, I purchase PNY brand hardware with moderate assurance.DIMENSIONS - This is a monstrous card, when coming from the GTX 970 - which I thought was huge back then. My 4070 Ti is about 13" long, 5" wide, and 2.5" high. I highly suggest purchasing a support bracket, as it will put a lot of strain on the motherboard otherwise. I personally went with this: 'BERLAT Graphics Card Brace Support'.PERFORMANCE - I have a 1080p monitor only, so I'm not going to tackle 4k resolutions at the moment. I also just wanted a video card that I can simply PnP without having to adjust any settings to get 100FPS plus performance. I play the following games currently, and they perform at or above 100FPS easily: Borderlands 3, Aliens: Fireteam Elite, Gears of War 4, and Final Fantasy XIV.BUYER'S REMORSE? - I do have some, in that I should have waited for the regular RTX 4070 - I didn't know it was going to drop literally 2-weeks after I purchased this 4070 Ti. Nvidia is definitely price-gouging their GPU customers this generation - the RTX 4070 Ti is not performing at an $800 level. Perhaps if it had a 256-bit bus and 16GBs of RAM, I would be more amendable. As it stands, I would have been more content with the RTX 4070 for the price/performance ratio.RECOMMENDATION - I would say if you're strictly playing at 1080p like I am, the RTX 4070 would be the more cost-effective option. I certainly would have purchased that, if I was more aware of my options._______________________________________________________________________________________________Update: June 4th, 2023:CURRENT STATUS - It's working fine. I've had no issues outside of some games - no glitches, flickering, and/or sudden blackouts in desktop mode. Certain games are giving me performance issues, but that seems to be more related to the games themselves.3440 X 1440 RESOLUTION - Yes, I now game at 1440p, as I've upgraded to this monitor:'LG UltraGear QHD 34-Inch Curved Gaming Monitor 34GP83A-B'. I am also currently playing Assassin's Creed Odyssey. Minus the occasional dips to 80FPS in Odyssey, it stays 99% of the time above 100FPS on high settings. Other games like Back 4 Blood, is always performing at or above 120FPS.FAN NOISE - It is virtually silent outside of gaming. If I put my ear near to the case, you can hear fans, but is it from the graphics card? I can't tell. Even when gaming at 1440p, I've never heard it whirl loudly. I don't believe I'm putting any strain on my RTX 4070 Ti, even at high settings with the games I'm playing.BUYER'S REMORSE? - Basically, instead of having buyer's remorse, I bought a new monitor to take advantage of this card's potential. Now, I don't have as much buyer's remorse - but I do still maintain that Nvidia has overpriced all the 4000 series cards. For an $800 price tag, I should have 4080 hardware. Besides that caveat, I'm continuing to enjoy my new gaming setup.

Great card. I even got the "excellent" 3DMark achievement with this card after overclocking (i.e., top 1% score for the same hardware). I also like the anti-sag mount that fits on the motherboard screws.