The Ventus 3X (RTX 4070 TiS) case: Final vs. original VBIOS

Extra tests, Graphics | | Ľubomír Samák

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The GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super Ventus 3X graphics card came out with a BIOS that MSI (and even Nvidia) wasn’t happy with. After the second revision, there is the third, the last revision of the BIOS. This one increases the power limit to allow higher GPU clock speeds to be achieved. However, this comes at the cost of a bit lower power efficiency. To update or not to update? That’s for everyone to decide for themselves, if they get the chance.

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Test platform benchmark; API DirectX 12, graphics settings preset Extreme; no extra settings.





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