Great GPU but high price
I haven't pulled the graphics card apart to see better, but looking inside at angles, it does look like the heatsink is contacting the GPU die and the NVRAM chips well. I was initially worried about those things based on some complaints I read about Zotac after I made the purchase, but, as I said, those things seem to be good. The fans also seem to be working well. Although I haven't been using them for long, just under two weeks, I have not had any problems with them. They're not loud, and there are no issues with their spinning yet. With the heatsink and fans, nothing in my GPU gets above 67 degrees Celsius while using FurMark Xtreme Burn In.
When I played Cyberpunk with Ray tracing Overdrive and DLSS quality + FG, I was averaging about 96 frames per second, but I'm not sure what the average is for the 4070 ti super at these settings. I could have gotten lucky or unlucky, but I'd still say that if you can get near or above that, it's good. I'm having no problems with performance. I'm able to get and stay over 100fps in all my games at max settings, and there are no stutters.
Idle power consumption is good. I have three monitors hooked up to this graphics card. Two are 1440p with 144Hz and 165Hz and the third one is 3440 x 1440p with 100Hz. When idle, I'm sitting at 15 watts. However, my definition of idle is with my Chromium browser open, Discord on the other monitor, and Steam opened on the last monitor. That is most likely increasing my power draw because I have read that some people can get to single digits on a desktop. Nonetheless, I'm satisfied with this 15 watts of idle power draw with my idle.
As far as Max power draw is concerned, I have seen 287 watts before. I have increased my power limit to the max so I can draw more than the advertised 285, but during gaming, I have never seen it reach 285. That 287 watts was from the Furmark stress test.
If there are any complaints about this graphics card, it's mainly regarding the price. However, when I purchased it, Zotac had it at the MSRP, so I don't believe that Zotac can do anything more to address the pricing issue. It's painful to spend $850, including tax, on a single item. It's getting better though.
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