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this is real footage captured outside a micro center computer store in dallas

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texas and you might think that twitch streamer preston a lewis was filming a

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black friday shopping rush or something but no

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no one in this crowd of people was hoping for a discount

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at all the shortage of gpus has gotten so dire

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that this is how desperate people are just to buy

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a graphics card at an msrp that has already been twice inflated since the

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release of NVIDIA's 30 series once by

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component shortages then again by tariffs on u.s imports from china which

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makes NVIDIA's pricing for the new 3070

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ti really confusing because 599 for this

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much raw power that would have been a decent deal even

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before the shortage and what makes it especially unexpected is that last

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week's 3080 ti was also competitively

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priced but only in the context of the current

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landscape where this untested 2080 ti on

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ebay sold for a thousand us dollars is

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NVIDIA trying to start street brawls

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or did they travel to an alternate timeline and bring this thing back for

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the good of all gamers and if they did

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599 puts the 3070 ti smack dab in the

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middle of the rtx 3070 and rtx 3080 both

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in terms of price and product positioning which

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in itself makes sense because unlike the rtx 3080 ti which was pretty much a

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watered-down rtx 3090 the rtx 3070 ti is

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more of a beefed up rtx 30 70. it shares

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the same ga104 GPU with about four

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percent more course with the same eight gigs of gddr6 memory on the same 256-bit

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bus pretty unexciting or i'm sorry did i say the same gddr6

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memory what i should have probably mentioned is that it is much faster

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clocking in at a good 2.5 gigahertz higher we are looking at an effective

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bandwidth boost of 160 gigabytes per second which is nearly

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a 24 increase consequently the rated graphics power is

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a hefty 70 watts higher and the cooler is a new ambiguous design that looks

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something like a cross between the rtx 3080 and rtx 3070 with the same totally

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necessary and very industry standard 12-pin connector though at least two

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NVIDIA's credit they were kind enough to angle it instead of having it stick

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straight out like the old 30 70. so the hope then both for NVIDIA and for

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the rest of us is that if the cooler is in between the two cards the rtx 37 etis

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performance will be as well despite it

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having just four percent more course than its namesake and a whopping 29

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fewer cores than the rtx 3080.

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now since the testing is happening so soon after our rtx 3080ti review we're

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going to be using the same bench in the same patch state and we'll even be

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wearing the same shirt and the same underwear from lttstore.com

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freshly washed of course though starting with metro exodus enhanced

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edition the story is already looking pretty interesting for the 30-70 ti it

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managed an average frame rate 12 higher than the 30-70 which is good

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but then that also puts it a good 19 lower than the rtx 3080 which is

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hmm f1 2020 tightens the spread somewhat

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though with a 10 lead over the 30 70 and a 12 loss against the 3080 and forza

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horizon 4 actually continues along this trajectory giving us the best result yet

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so it appears that high frame rates favor the 37 eti's additional memory

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bandwidth while lower frame rates

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really want for more cores and this appears to bear out an assassin's creed

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valhalla where frame rates dip way back down to earth and actually AMD's rx 6700

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xt manages to eclipse not only the 3070

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and 370ti but even the 30 80. cs go is

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another chance for the 3070 ti's lightning fast memory to make up ground

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but while it manages to get close to the middle of the 30 70 and 3080 it ends up

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closer to the former not gonna lie though given that we're

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looking at a handful of extra cores and a hefty memory overclock

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i'm pretty impressed but how much are those going to help if

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you want to do anything other than gaming as it turns out

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not much the rtx 3070 ti doesn't manage much in

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the way of an improvement over the rtx 3070 and loses badly to the rtx 3080 in

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rendering with both blender and v-ray while creative cloud doesn't really show

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enough variation between the cards to warrant picking up one over the other

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octane bench is a little better than blender but we're still looking at a

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much closer result to the 3070 than to the 3080 and this trend continues pretty

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hardcore into spec view perf where the rtx 3080 stomps all over both of its ga

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104 equipped competitors the only thing that could be considered

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a win here is the energy benchmark where the 3070 ti's additional memory

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bandwidth pushes it far enough away from the 3070 to find that middle ground

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again so what have we learned then it turns out

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that fast memory on a GPU can be good

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very good but that it's also very situational and we also learned that

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fast memory with more cores is better than just fast memory in every

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conceivable way okay we didn't really learn either of

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those things but it's always nice to get a refresher isn't it

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and on that subject let's talk cooling the bigger heatsink on the rtx 3070 ti

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founders edition meant that it didn't get all that much hotter than the rtx

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3070 and with a peak of just a little higher than 78 degrees and an average of

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64 degrees across our spec view perf test we're looking at a respectable

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result all things considered power consumption however is less so the

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37 eti ends up sitting much closer to

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the 30 80 than its performance would suggest at 311 watts peak and 151 watts

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average that's about 20 more power draw

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than its non-ti cousin and most of this appears to come from the up-clocked

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memory considering how few additional GPU cores there are and the fact that

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when we look at core clocks the 3070 ti consistently runs about 100 megahertz

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lower than both the 3070 and the 3080.

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at the end of the day though our recommendation like with the rtx 3080ti

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is going to be to immediately buy this card at msrp if you can

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and i know that not everyone agreed with our conclusion last time but the truth

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is i stand behind what i said 100

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because no matter who you are are you a filthy scalper looking to make a quick

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buck or are you a gamer who happens to have that much money to spend on a

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graphics card whichever one you are

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both of the new ti variants at msrp of course are going to be a much

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better deal than anything that you're getting on the secondary market and sure

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you can compare these cards to suggested pricing from a year ago but the reality

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of the situation is that outside of the handful of cards that NVIDIA sells

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through their web store those cards at those prices

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they don't actually exist and that might make you mad but shooting

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the messenger isn't going to get you anywhere and besides i did warn you

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after all so yeah

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it's a great GPU with great NVIDIA features like dlss high quality hardware

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video encoding and more and 5.99

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it's an absolute bargain for this class of GPU in the current conditions

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will the 37 eti still make sense when the dust settles

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honestly my money's on not really but i

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suppose only time can tell for sure and by the look of things

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it's going to be a long time

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