NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Founders Edition Review: Gaming, Thermals, Noise, & Power Benchmarks
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Date: 2020-10-27
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If you are happy with the video card you have now there is no reason for you to upgrade just because something new came out, hold on to it, make the cards that you have last as long as you can and then upgrade when it really truely makes sense because you are unhappy with the performance you have.
Is a good statement, I have been running a pair of GTX660 cards for a few years now. Though, have been thinking of upgrading to a pair of 1650 or similar.
I run two cards due to having a lot of monitors, I don't run SLI, though some workstation tasks I work with could really make use of some more modern GPUs.... But main reason I am interested in upgrading is to reduce system power consumption... (Gets a bit toasty in summer...)
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If you are happy with the video card you have now there is no reason for you to upgrade just because something new came out, hold on to it, make the cards that you have last as long as you can and then upgrade when it really truely makes sense because you are unhappy with the performance you have.
Is a good statement, I have been running a pair of GTX660 cards for a few years now. Though, have been thinking of upgrading to a pair of 1650 or similar.
I run two cards due to having a lot of monitors, I don't run SLI, though some workstation tasks I work with could really make use of some more modern GPUs.... But main reason I am interested in upgrading is to reduce system power consumption... (Gets a bit toasty in summer...)
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Arne
You got some specs wrong. 3070 doesn't have 16Gbps memory, but only 14Gbps, like 2070S and 2080. But is hat 96 ROPs like 3080, since now each GPC contains 16 ROPS and it has 6 GPCs like 3080, but with 8 SM per GPC instead of 12 on GA102.
Also, 3080 has the same 96 ROPs as 3090, because ROPs now are contained in the GPC, not in the memory controller like before. Not using two MC of GA102 on 3080 doesn't result in losing ROPs.
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You got some specs wrong. 3070 doesn't have 16Gbps memory, but only 14Gbps, like 2070S and 2080. But is hat 96 ROPs like 3080, since now each GPC contains 16 ROPS and it has 6 GPCs like 3080, but with 8 SM per GPC instead of 12 on GA102.
Also, 3080 has the same 96 ROPs as 3090, because ROPs now are contained in the GPC, not in the memory controller like before. Not using two MC of GA102 on 3080 doesn't result in losing ROPs.
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Bill
i am a little confused, the 3070 has less RT cores than the 2080s?
if so, how is it achieving a higher fps in RTX minecraft?
i mean, i assume it's because of the extra cuda cores, but still feel like that can't be the full answer.
if it is, then is this pointing to RT cores actually being kinda irrelevant in ray traced games?
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i am a little confused, the 3070 has less RT cores than the 2080s?
if so, how is it achieving a higher fps in RTX minecraft?
i mean, i assume it's because of the extra cuda cores, but still feel like that can't be the full answer.
if it is, then is this pointing to RT cores actually being kinda irrelevant in ray traced games?
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Mister
There is no direct competitor from AMD .... Steve says this as if there isn't a major release the very next day that's anticipated to have at least 1 card that beats this GPU.... Jeez, you could at least be a bit more forthcoming, rather than seemingly frame it in a way that insinuates there's no competition. SMH.
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There is no direct competitor from AMD .... Steve says this as if there isn't a major release the very next day that's anticipated to have at least 1 card that beats this GPU.... Jeez, you could at least be a bit more forthcoming, rather than seemingly frame it in a way that insinuates there's no competition. SMH.
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Oval
I don't think 2080 Ti users have anything to worry about here. Their cards are very overclockable compared to the 3070. With an overclock, the 2080 Ti pulls well ahead of the 3070. 2080 Ti owners overpaid for the card, but I think they all knew that back when they bought it.
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I don't think 2080 Ti users have anything to worry about here. Their cards are very overclockable compared to the 3070. With an overclock, the 2080 Ti pulls well ahead of the 3070. 2080 Ti owners overpaid for the card, but I think they all knew that back when they bought it.
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Dallas
I still can t tell the difference between high and ultra graphic settings when gaming. Yet so many nerds scream that a card can t game in 4K because it pulls 52fps at ultra 4K..... admit it..you can t tell high from ultra either....you can t. Stop lying.
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I still can t tell the difference between high and ultra graphic settings when gaming. Yet so many nerds scream that a card can t game in 4K because it pulls 52fps at ultra 4K..... admit it..you can t tell high from ultra either....you can t. Stop lying.
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Xeroze
With the RTX 3000 series RTX performance being practically the same as the RTX2000 series in games, i wonder how AMD's RDNA's ray tracing capabilities will compare, considering leaks have it slot in-between the 2 generations for raytracing benchmarks.
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With the RTX 3000 series RTX performance being practically the same as the RTX2000 series in games, i wonder how AMD's RDNA's ray tracing capabilities will compare, considering leaks have it slot in-between the 2 generations for raytracing benchmarks.
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Zblurth
question time because you have so much data and gpu test, could you do a big list with every GPU tested (on the same set on benchmark)
I do not know how hard it would be to set up so it's more a question than anything
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question time because you have so much data and gpu test, could you do a big list with every GPU tested (on the same set on benchmark)
I do not know how hard it would be to set up so it's more a question than anything
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scannerbarkly
To be honest I have zero interest in watching this video for the actual card, as the launch will just be another shitshow of incompetence. Watching this strictly to support GN, you guys are doing god's work.
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To be honest I have zero interest in watching this video for the actual card, as the launch will just be another shitshow of incompetence. Watching this strictly to support GN, you guys are doing god's work.
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Federico
I think the performance section of this review is a bit pointless when you can get the same data + comparison on same-price playing field when AMD gpus come out and you do a coverage of those
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I think the performance section of this review is a bit pointless when you can get the same data + comparison on same-price playing field when AMD gpus come out and you do a coverage of those
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