this is real footage captured outside a micro center computer store in dallas
texas and you might think that twitch streamer preston a lewis was filming a
black friday shopping rush or something but no
no one in this crowd of people was hoping for a discount
at all the shortage of gpus has gotten so dire
that this is how desperate people are just to buy
a graphics card at an msrp that has already been twice inflated since the
release of NVIDIA's 30 series once by
component shortages then again by tariffs on u.s imports from china which
makes NVIDIA's pricing for the new 3070
ti really confusing because 599 for this
much raw power that would have been a decent deal even
before the shortage and what makes it especially unexpected is that last
week's 3080 ti was also competitively
priced but only in the context of the current
landscape where this untested 2080 ti on
ebay sold for a thousand us dollars is
NVIDIA trying to start street brawls
or did they travel to an alternate timeline and bring this thing back for
the good of all gamers and if they did
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599 puts the 3070 ti smack dab in the
middle of the rtx 3070 and rtx 3080 both
in terms of price and product positioning which
in itself makes sense because unlike the rtx 3080 ti which was pretty much a
watered-down rtx 3090 the rtx 3070 ti is
more of a beefed up rtx 30 70. it shares
the same ga104 GPU with about four
percent more course with the same eight gigs of gddr6 memory on the same 256-bit
bus pretty unexciting or i'm sorry did i say the same gddr6
memory what i should have probably mentioned is that it is much faster
clocking in at a good 2.5 gigahertz higher we are looking at an effective
bandwidth boost of 160 gigabytes per second which is nearly
a 24 increase consequently the rated graphics power is
a hefty 70 watts higher and the cooler is a new ambiguous design that looks
something like a cross between the rtx 3080 and rtx 3070 with the same totally
necessary and very industry standard 12-pin connector though at least two
NVIDIA's credit they were kind enough to angle it instead of having it stick
straight out like the old 30 70. so the hope then both for NVIDIA and for
the rest of us is that if the cooler is in between the two cards the rtx 37 etis
performance will be as well despite it
having just four percent more course than its namesake and a whopping 29
fewer cores than the rtx 3080.
now since the testing is happening so soon after our rtx 3080ti review we're
going to be using the same bench in the same patch state and we'll even be
wearing the same shirt and the same underwear from lttstore.com
freshly washed of course though starting with metro exodus enhanced
edition the story is already looking pretty interesting for the 30-70 ti it
managed an average frame rate 12 higher than the 30-70 which is good
but then that also puts it a good 19 lower than the rtx 3080 which is
hmm f1 2020 tightens the spread somewhat
though with a 10 lead over the 30 70 and a 12 loss against the 3080 and forza
horizon 4 actually continues along this trajectory giving us the best result yet
so it appears that high frame rates favor the 37 eti's additional memory
bandwidth while lower frame rates
really want for more cores and this appears to bear out an assassin's creed
valhalla where frame rates dip way back down to earth and actually AMD's rx 6700
xt manages to eclipse not only the 3070
and 370ti but even the 30 80. cs go is
another chance for the 3070 ti's lightning fast memory to make up ground
but while it manages to get close to the middle of the 30 70 and 3080 it ends up
closer to the former not gonna lie though given that we're
looking at a handful of extra cores and a hefty memory overclock
i'm pretty impressed but how much are those going to help if
you want to do anything other than gaming as it turns out
not much the rtx 3070 ti doesn't manage much in
the way of an improvement over the rtx 3070 and loses badly to the rtx 3080 in
rendering with both blender and v-ray while creative cloud doesn't really show
enough variation between the cards to warrant picking up one over the other
octane bench is a little better than blender but we're still looking at a
much closer result to the 3070 than to the 3080 and this trend continues pretty
hardcore into spec view perf where the rtx 3080 stomps all over both of its ga
104 equipped competitors the only thing that could be considered
a win here is the energy benchmark where the 3070 ti's additional memory
bandwidth pushes it far enough away from the 3070 to find that middle ground
again so what have we learned then it turns out
that fast memory on a GPU can be good
very good but that it's also very situational and we also learned that
fast memory with more cores is better than just fast memory in every
conceivable way okay we didn't really learn either of
those things but it's always nice to get a refresher isn't it
and on that subject let's talk cooling the bigger heatsink on the rtx 3070 ti
founders edition meant that it didn't get all that much hotter than the rtx
3070 and with a peak of just a little higher than 78 degrees and an average of
64 degrees across our spec view perf test we're looking at a respectable
result all things considered power consumption however is less so the
37 eti ends up sitting much closer to
the 30 80 than its performance would suggest at 311 watts peak and 151 watts
average that's about 20 more power draw
than its non-ti cousin and most of this appears to come from the up-clocked
memory considering how few additional GPU cores there are and the fact that
when we look at core clocks the 3070 ti consistently runs about 100 megahertz
lower than both the 3070 and the 3080.
at the end of the day though our recommendation like with the rtx 3080ti
is going to be to immediately buy this card at msrp if you can
and i know that not everyone agreed with our conclusion last time but the truth
is i stand behind what i said 100
because no matter who you are are you a filthy scalper looking to make a quick
buck or are you a gamer who happens to have that much money to spend on a
graphics card whichever one you are
both of the new ti variants at msrp of course are going to be a much
better deal than anything that you're getting on the secondary market and sure
you can compare these cards to suggested pricing from a year ago but the reality
of the situation is that outside of the handful of cards that NVIDIA sells
through their web store those cards at those prices
they don't actually exist and that might make you mad but shooting
the messenger isn't going to get you anywhere and besides i did warn you
after all so yeah
it's a great GPU with great NVIDIA features like dlss high quality hardware
video encoding and more and 5.99
it's an absolute bargain for this class of GPU in the current conditions
will the 37 eti still make sense when the dust settles
honestly my money's on not really but i
suppose only time can tell for sure and by the look of things
it's going to be a long time
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