GeForce RTX 3070 Graphics Card
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- What in heaven's name are you doing watching YouTube videos right now? Get out there and buy an RTX 3070, now. It's okay, I'll wait. (clock ticking) All right, now that you'vesecured your place in the queue in hopes of receiving a card before the end of this ridiculous year, let's find out if you'regonna be keeping it, or if you're gonna be scalping it on eBay for twice what you paid. I never scalped my segues though. Ridge Wallet wants to redefine the wallet with its compact frameand RFID blocking plates. Keep your wallet bulge downby using offer code LINUS to save 10% and get free worldwideshipping at the link below. (upbeat music) Clearly NVIDIA has had issues keeping up with demand for their3000 series graphics cards. And while they claim thatthey pushed back the launch of today's RTX 3070 to shore up supply, given that this is positionedas an RTX 2080 Ti killer for 500 bucks US, I doubt anything they've donein the last couple of weeks is gonna help.
Unless of course, we fire itup on our trusty test bench and it falls way short of expectations. Although, spoiler alert, we did already tell you to buy one. It looks like as far as NVIDIA's big gaming performance claims go, the RTX 3070 does adjust fine, matching or beating our2080 Ti Founder's Edition more often than not. At least in games that take advantage of it's beefier RTcores, and tensor cores, which are focused on real-time Ray tracing and deep learning workloads respectively. Now there was a time in the past when we might've called NVIDIA's DLSS deep learning upscaling a performance hack and forced their cards tocompete with it disabled. But, there's just noother way to put this. It's gotten really good. When we turned all that stuff off, in Wolfenstein: Youngblood though, and forced a more traditionalrendering approach, we did observe a small but measurable four to 5% dip in performance. So, it isn't quite a 2080 Ti, but at less than half the price, I don't think anyone's complaining. Microsoft Flight Simulator, while CPU-bound atvirtually any resolution, revealed a curious twistin our story though. The minimum frame rate islower than the 2080 Ti, but the average is higher, suggesting that while the GPUis fast enough to keep up, there's a memory bandwidthbottleneck in the mix, thanks to the 3070's narrower 256 bit bus. It still excels in ourparallel Nintendo 64 test but Counter-Strike: Global Offensive sees it fall below the RTX 2080 Ti again. Although, we're still talking 450 versus 470 frames per second. So, it's pretty easy to forgive when you look at the bigger picture.
Productivity is another area where NVIDIA's new Amperearchitecture GPUs really shine. Our blender benders on the 3070 went roughly 20 to 30%faster than the 2080 Ti. That is a significant improvement, likely down to the sheernumber of cooler cores that NVIDIA has packed into this thing, with Samsung's eight nanometer process. V-Ray and Redshift show us similar results while OctaneBench shows us once again the difference betweenhaving RTX on versus off. Those RT cores are where this GPU's main advantage comes into play whenever memory bandwidth is an issue. Speaking of which, the newSPECviewperf 2020 shows us that while it's great for rendering, and nearly as good for some other tasks that just need to crunch numbers, a lot of high-end workstation users suffer from the constrainedmemory bandwidth of consumer cards like this one, and performance of our RTX3070 fell to as low as 80% of what the last genRTX 2080 could provide. To be fair to NVIDIA though, that's not what thiscard is designed to do. It just happens to be a consideration if you're self-employedor working from home and you do need to run theseapplications during work hours. If we average all of our results though, we can see that we're hovering right around that magic 100%mark compared to the 2080 Ti, which is extremely impressive. Unless the 3070 has an Achilles heel that we haven't found yet. Let's take a closer look then, at our founder's edition card. It's kinda adorable, isn't it? It's got the sameflow-through cooler design as the RTX 3080, and RTX 3090, but it's super tiny and has the same fan layoutas the RTX 20 series, which isn't to say it's light. I was surprised at howheavy it is for its size. And I was surprised to see NVIDIA's new radical 12-pin power connector, in the same visually jarring position. I mean, at least the adapter only requires a single eight pin instead of two, which, wait, why the heck wouldn't they justuse a single eight-pin then? It's the same physical size. Like, they could just (screams) Interestingly, the grill on the I/O plate is indented a little. So it bolts directly onto the cooler rather than tabs on the display outputs, making the design feel much sturdier and therefore more likely to survive a drop. Cool joke, Anthony. Just like the water inthis bottle is cool. Almost hit the mic. LTTStore.com but it is the 3070 Founder's Edition cool? Yeah, it's all right. Our card was we're able to ramp to 1.9 to two gigahertz all day long, with its core sitting atRTX 2080 Ti temperatures. Which is toastier than our RTX 2070 Super. But in fairness, the coolerhere is significantly smaller which shows just how efficient NVIDIA's pass-through approaches. When we look at power consumption, it was a touch higher over the course of our SPECviewperf run, compared with the RTX 2070 Super, with our peak recordedwattage no higher 253 Watts compared to that card's 224. This is excellent newsbecause the RTX 3080 guzzled far more powerthan even the 2080 Ti, and the RTX 3090 sees massive power spikes that can cause mere mortal powersupplies to just blink off, thanks to their over current protection. On that subject, you'll have to forgiveme for going back to the previous 3000 series launches again here. But there was yet another power debacle where some powder boards would crash due to a flawed power delivery design. Some brands ended up shipping bad boards all the way to customers. But even ones who didn't likeEVGA suffered product delays from not having all the testingand info that they needed in time for launch. Now, nobody would go on the record for us blaming NVIDIA for this outright. But as far as we can put together, team green just didn't givetheir partners enough lead time to flesh out their designs, while they themselvesenjoy a massive headstart, putting together revolutionary new coolers for their Ampere cards.
Now I've given NVIDIA the benefit of the doubt on this so far. But with today's move, it's clear that they areopenly and unashamedly competing on an uneven playing field against their own partners. What have they done today, you might ask? Well look around. Where are all the reviewsof non-Founders RTX 3070s, that have normal power connectors on them. Not in any NVIDIA-sanctionedreviews at the embargo lift. Why? Well, because theirembargo hasn't lifted yet. It's kind of genius, really. NVIDIA goes and creates a big splash and sells out of theirFounder's Edition cards first which they've had longer to perfect. Then their partners rush tolaunch their competing products with less time to prepare, giving NVIDIA a secondwave of review coverage, comparing their product, the GPU itself, with their product, theFounder's Edition card, often quite favorably. Now, I doubt that anything that I say is gonna change NVIDIA's behavior because this guy clearly giveszero (beep) at this point. But, it's a crappy way to treat a partner. And I wanted to make surethat at least they feel bad about it. On the subject of competition, though, AMD's Radeon announcement is tomorrow, which, again knowingNVIDIA is probably why they carpet-bombed the review cycle. So, cut through all of that noise by getting subscribed soyou don't miss our coverage. But that's not today. That's tomorrow. So today, from numbers alone. It was always gonna be easyto recommend the RTX 3070 to anyone in this price range. That is assuming that you got one before you finished watching the intro, because, chances are, they're all gone by now, unless you wanna payscalper prices on eBay. The good news, for theentire industry though, is that NVIDIA's supply woes could be AMD's big chance to make a splash with the unveiling of theirnew Radeon 6000 series. We still don't know for surewhat that's gonna look like. But what we do know is that between it, 3070's compelling value, and the potential fordeals on last gen cards come black Friday, it is gonna be a goodseason to buy a gaming rig.
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