Gigabyte GeForce RTX 3070 Ti VISION OC 8GB Graphics Card

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When it comes to power consumption, the RTX 3070 Ti consumes significantly more power than the RX 6800, increasing total system usage by 20%, and that's a significant increase when factoring in entire system usage. That margin does increase at 4K, but even here the 3070 Ti was just 7% faster than the 3070 and that meant it was still 11% slower than the RX 6800 and 19% slower than the 6800 XT. For example, the RTX 3080 is 27% faster than the 3070 at 1440p, but at 4K that margin more than doubles to 59%. The 3070 Ti has the same memory capacity as the 3070, but bandwidth has been increased by 36% and that really helps here. At 1440p the 3070 Ti was 11% faster than the 3070, but at 4K it's 18% faster.

First up we've got Assassin's Creed Valhalla. This AMD sponsored title heavily favors Radeon GPUs and for some reason Nvidia has been unable to optimize their hardware for this game. As a result the 3070 Ti is 18% slower than the 6800 and 28% slower than the 6800 XT, which is a massive performance difference.Streamers, competitive esports players, and content creators can’t go wrong with an NVIDIA Gaming PC utilising a GeForce RTX 3080 and above. Are NVIDIA Gaming PCs VR Ready? Any gaming PC equipped with a GeForce RTX 3060 Ti to 3070 Ti will be an outstanding PC for mainstream gaming. If you’re looking to get into esports or streaming, then the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti will be able to support any upgrades you make along the way. Are there NVIDIA Gaming PCs suitable for enthusiast gaming? Axial-tech fan design has been tuned up with more fan blades and a reversed rotational direction for the center fan.

Testing with Doom Eternal reveals similar margins between the 3070 Ti and RX 6800, though the cheaper Radeon GPU was still 4% faster and the 6800 XT was 15% faster. When compared to the 3070, we're looking at single digit gains. This time the 3070 Ti was 9% faster. The 4K margins look similar: the 3070 Ti matched the RX 6800, and it was 12% slower than the 6800 XT. When compared to the original RTX 3070 it was 11% faster, which is the biggest margin we've seen so far, certainly not amazing and not nearly enough to justify the 20% increase in MSRP. In Cyberpunk 2077 the 3070 Ti isn't overly impressive, 73 fps on average meant it was just 7% faster than the original 3070, and 8% slower than the RX 6800. There's still the question of whether 8GB of memory is enough. These days, we'd say it's sufficient for any game you want to play, but there are definitely instances where you'll run into memory capacity issues. Not surprisingly, many of those come in games promoted by AMD, it's almost like AMD has convinced developers to target 12GB or 16GB of VRAM at maximum quality settings. But a few judicious tweaks to settings (like dropping texture quality a notch) will generally suffice. Here's a summary of all the previous results with no surprises to be found. At 1440p, the RTX 3070 Ti is on average 8% slower than the RX 6800, and 18% slower than the 6800 XT, while beating the original RTX 3070 by 8%.

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Generation Tensor Cores: Get up to 2X the throughput with structural sparsity and advanced AI algorithms such as DLSS. Now with support for up to 8K resolution, these cores deliver a massive boost in game performance and all-new AI capabilities. The GeForce RTX 3070 Ti is a high-end graphics card by NVIDIA, launched on May 31st, 2021. Built on the 8 nm process, and based on the GA104 graphics processor, in its GA104-400-A1 variant, the card supports DirectX 12 Ultimate. This ensures that all modern games will run on GeForce RTX 3070 Ti. Additionally, the DirectX 12 Ultimate capability guarantees support for hardware-raytracing, variable-rate shading and more, in upcoming video games. The GA104 graphics processor is a large chip with a die area of 392 mm² and 17,400 million transistors. It features 6144 shading units, 192 texture mapping units, and 96 ROPs. Also included are 192 tensor cores which help improve the speed of machine learning applications. The card also has 48 raytracing acceleration cores. NVIDIA has paired 8 GB GDDR6X memory with the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti, which are connected using a 256-bit memory interface. The GPU is operating at a frequency of 1575 MHz, which can be boosted up to 1770 MHz, memory is running at 1188 MHz (19 Gbps effective). Resident Evil 3 is yet another title where the 3070 Ti loses out to the Radeon competition. Although it was 12% faster than the 3070, it's 9% slower than the cheaper RX 6800 and 17% slower than the 6800 XT. Figures improve a little at 4K but not enough to overcome the Radeons. Moving on to the Death Stranding testing, we find some particularly disappointing results for the RTX 3070 Ti. Here it was 13% slower than the RX 6800 and 20% slower than the 6800 XT. But most disappointing of all was the margin to the 3070, here it was just 4% faster.

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Graphics Cards

For gamers, the RTX 3080 Ti is a flop, but for Nvidia it allows them to cash in big time on silicon that wasn't good enough to be binned for use as an RTX 3090, extending their profit margins. So that's the story of the RTX 3080 Ti, but what about the RTX 3070 Ti? slot design expands cooling surface area compared to last gen for more thermal headroom than ever before.

Generation RT Cores: Experience 2X the throughput of 1st gen RT Cores, plus concurrent RT and shading for a whole new level of ray tracing performance. The RTX 3070 Ti series is 4K/UHD compatible. From gaming to media, RTX graphics cards deliver the performance you need. Can I play VR games with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti? The upgrade to 19 Gbps memory from 14 Gbps means that the 256-bit wide memory bus now has a theoretical peak bandwidth of 608 GB/s up from 448 GB/s, a 36% increase. Next up we have Horizon Zero Dawn and once again the 3070 Ti is slower than the RX 6800, this time falling behind by 6% margin and that meant it was 16% slower than the 6800 XT. Not a terrible result, but it was only 7% faster than the 3070, so you have to wonder what the point is.

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A similarly large margin was seen at 4K, where the 3070 Ti was 18% faster than the original 3070, rendering 52 fps on average, enough to match the RX 6800. Then we had the Radeon 6700 XT vs. GeForce RTX 3070 battle, and for that one we went with Nvidia. The 6700 XT just wasn't priced competitively enough. Not surprisingly, while 4K ultra gaming gave the RTX 3070 Ti its biggest lead over the RTX 3070 (11%), it also got its biggest loss (17%) against the 3080. 4K also narrowed the gap between the 3070 Ti and the RX 6800, as AMD's Infinity Cache starts to hit its limits at 4K. The basic idea behind the RTX 3070 Ti is simple enough. Nvidia takes the GA104 GPU that powers the RTX 3070 and RTX 3060 Ti, only this time it's the full 48 SM variant of the chip, and pairs it with GDDR6X. While Nvidia could have tried doing this last year, both the RTX 3080 and RTX 3090 were already struggling to get enough GDDR6X memory, and delaying by nine months allowed Nvidia to build up enough inventory of both the GPU and memory for this launch. Nvidia has also implemented its Ethereum hashrate limiter, basically cutting mining performance in half on crypto coins that use the Ethash / Dagger-Hashimoto algorithm.