it has to be with frame gen
4070 is %25-30 faster than 3070 in raster
4k dlss performance is around 2.5x-3x times harder to run than 1080p dlss performance
if 3070 gets 60 fps at medium settings with 1080p dlss performance, it is impossible for a 4070 to hit 60 fps at high settings with 4k dlss performance, without frame gen
assuming there's at least a %30 performance jump between medium and high settings, that would only allow 4070 to hit the same performance 3070 gets at 1080p dlss performance with high settings instead of medium settings
so it is indeed with frame gen. and quite possibly from an 30-40 fps baseline. because 4070 would barely get 30 fps at 4k dlss performance with high settings if these requirements are any indication, not 60 FPS as they claim
No because if it does require framegen, the GPU on AMD side needs to be far more faster, and as the sheet says clearly a 30% faster GPU from the AMD side on the same spot it means framegen isn't enabled, and this gets even further confirmed by the fact it stats DLSS/FSR2 so FSR3 isn't used which could be a counterargument towards it.
Why would it only give a 30% faster GPU, maybe because the settings only require a 30% faster or less amount of GPU performance. But the real limitations here is v-ram. So that's why a 4070 arrived on that spot. but 4070 could also have been picked instead of a 3080 on that spot, because they wanted a current gen gpu on that spot ( a lot of spec sheets with pc games do this ) So maybe its not entirely it needs 12gb of v-ram, but 10gb is also good, we won't know this.
The 30 and 60 fps metrics can also mean a stable 30 or 60 fps. So if a game runs at 50 they will simple stated it as 30 fps, and this can also explain why less performance is needed on the GPU side to get to double the performance on the sheet. I think this is probably the case outside of v-ram.
Because if u look at 2060>4070, low to ultra u need 4x the performance to get there, but the hardware only is 2x faster, but has double the v-ram.
About pathtracing, this could very well mean it has framegen enabled, but also it could not be the case. The sheet simple isn't clear enough about it.
Either way, the game is horrible optimized and i can see why they are happy to sit on epic store at the end of the day, because on steam i am 100% sure it will be review bombed to shit and a refund galore because the performance on this sheet is absolutely laughable if it actually is going to be the case.
30 fps and dlss/fsr2 performance at 1080p, is in my view unplayable.