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what in heaven's name are you doing watching youtube videos right now get

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out there and buy an rtx 3070 now

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it's okay i'll wait

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all right now that you've secured your place in the queue in hopes of receiving a card

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before the end of this ridiculous year let's find out if you're going to be

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clearly NVIDIA has had issues keeping up with demand for their 3000 series

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graphics cards and while they claim that they pushed back the launch of today's

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rtx 3070 to shore up supply given that this is positioned as an rtx 2080 ti

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killer for 500 bucks us i doubt anything

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they've done in the last couple of weeks is gonna help unless of course we fire

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it up on our trusty test bench and it falls way short of expectations

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although spoiler alert we did already tell you to

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buy one it looks like as far as NVIDIA's big gaming performance claims go the rtx

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3070 does just fine matching or beating

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our 2080 ti founders edition more often than not at least in games that take

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advantage of its beefier rt course and tensor cores which are focused on

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real-time ray tracing and deep learning workloads respectively now there was a

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time in the past when we might have called NVIDIA's dlss deep learning

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upscaling a performance hack and forced their cards

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to compete with it disabled but there's just no other way to put this

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it's gotten really good when we turned all that stuff off in wolfenstein

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youngblood though and forced a more traditional rendering approach we did

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observe a small but measurable four to five percent dip in performance so

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it isn't quite a 2080 ti but at less than half the price i don't

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think anyone's complaining microsoft flight simulator while CPU bound at

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virtually any resolution revealed a curious twist in our story though the

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minimum frame rate is lower than the 2080 ti but the average is higher

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suggesting that while the GPU is fast enough to keep up there's a memory

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bandwidth bottleneck in the mix thanks to the 3070's narrower 256 bit bus it

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still excels in our parallel nintendo 64 test but counter-strike global offensive

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sees it fall below the rtx 2080 ti again

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although we're still talking 450 versus 470

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frames per second so it's pretty easy to forgive when you

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look at the bigger picture productivity is another area where NVIDIA's new

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ampere architecture gpus really shine

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our blender renders on the 3070 went roughly 20 to 30 percent faster than the

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2080 ti that is a significant improvement likely down to the sheer

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number of cuda cores that NVIDIA has packed into this thing with samsung's

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eight nanometer process v-ray and redshift show us similar results while

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octane bench shows us once again the difference between having rtx on versus

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off those rt cores are where this GPU's

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main advantage comes into play whenever memory bandwidth is an issue speaking of

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which the new spec vue perf 2020 shows us that while it's great for rendering

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and nearly as good for some other tasks that just need to crunch numbers

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a lot of high-end workstation users suffer from the constrained memory

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bandwidth of consumer cards like this one and performance of our rtx 3070 fell

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to as low as 80 percent of what the last gen rtx 2080 could provide

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to be fair to NVIDIA though that's not what this card is designed to do it just

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happens to be a consideration if you're self-employed or working from home and

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you do need to run these applications during work hours if we average all of

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our results though we can see that we're hovering right around that magic 100

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mark compared to the 2080 ti which is

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extremely impressive unless the 3070 has

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an achilles heel that we haven't found yet

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let's take a closer look then at our founders edition card it's kind of

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adorable isn't it it's got the same flow-through cooler

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design as the rtx 3080 and rtx 3090 but

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it's super tiny and has the same fan layout as the rtx 20 series which isn't

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to say it's light i was surprised at how heavy it is for its size and i was

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surprised to see NVIDIA's new radical 12-pin power connector in the same

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visually jarring position i mean at least the adapter only requires a single

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eight pin instead of two which

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wait why the heck wouldn't they just use a single eight pen then it's the same

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physical size like they could just

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ah interestingly the grille on the i o plate is indented a little so it bolts

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directly onto the cooler rather than tabs on the display outputs making the

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design feel much sturdier and therefore more likely

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to survive a drop cool joke Anthony

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just like the water in this bottle is cool

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it almost hit the mic LTT Store store.com but is the 3070 founders

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edition cool yeah it's all right

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our card was able to ramp to 1.9 to 2 gigahertz all day long with its core

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sitting at rtx 2080 ti temperatures which is toastier than our rtx 2070

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super but in fairness the cooler here is significantly smaller which shows just

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how efficient NVIDIA's pass-through approaches when we look at power

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consumption it was a touch higher over the course of our spec view perf run

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compared with the rtx 2070 super with our peak recorded wattage no higher than

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253 watts compared to that card's 224.

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this is excellent news because the rtx 3080 guzzled far more power than even

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the 2080 ti and the rtx 3090 sees

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massive power spikes that can cause mere mortal power supplies to just blink off

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thanks to their overcurrent protection on that subject you'll have to forgive

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me for going back to the previous 3000 series launches again here but there was

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yet another power debacle where some partner boards would crash due to a

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flawed power delivery design some brands ended up shipping bad boards

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all the way to customers but even ones who didn't like evga suffered product

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delays from not having all the testing and info that they needed in time for

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launch now nobody would go on the record for us blaming NVIDIA for this outright

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but as far as we can put together team green just didn't give their partners

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enough lead time to flesh out their designs while they themselves enjoyed a

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massive head start putting together revolutionary new coolers for their

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ampere cards now i've given NVIDIA the benefit of the doubt on this so far but

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with today's move it's clear that they are openly and unashamedly competing on

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an uneven playing field against their own partners

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what have they done today you might ask well look around

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where are all the reviews of non-founders rtx 3070s that have normal

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power connectors on them not in any NVIDIA sanctioned reviews at the embargo

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lift why well because their embargo hasn't lifted

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yet it's kind of genius really NVIDIA goes and creates a big splash and sells

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out of their founders edition cards first which they've had longer to

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perfect then their partners rush to launch their competing products with

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less time to prepare giving NVIDIA a second wave of review coverage comparing

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their product the GPU itself with

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their product the founders edition card

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often quite favorably now i doubt that anything that i say is gonna change in

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videos behavior because this guy clearly gives zero at this point

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but it's a crappy way to treat a partner and

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i wanted to make sure that at least they feel bad about it on the subject of

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competition though AMD's Radeon announcement is tomorrow which again

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knowing NVIDIA is probably why they carpet bombed the review cycle so cut

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through all that noise by getting subscribed so you don't miss our

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coverage but that's not today that's tomorrow so today from numbers

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alone it was always going to be easy to recommend the rtx 3070 to anyone in this

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price range that is assuming that you got one before you finished watching the

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intro because chances are they're all gone by now unless you want to pay

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scalper prices on ebay the good news for

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the entire industry though is that NVIDIA's supply woes could be AMD's big

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chance to make a splash with the unveiling of their new Radeon 6000

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series we still don't know for sure what that's going to look like but what we do

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know is that between it 3070s compelling value and the potential

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for deals on last gen cards come black friday

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it is going to be a good season to buy a gaming rig

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oh yeah and the consoles too they're good value too like dang

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you enjoyed this video why not check out our previous review of the rtx 3080 to

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see why we really really like these cards

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if only they were available to buy