Two days before the GeForce RTX goes on sale 3070 Nvidia presents its own Founders Edition. The time is no coincidence: In the afternoon of 28. October 2020 AMD will launch the Radeon RX graphics card series 6000 alias Big Navi unveil, which is in direct competition with Nvidia’s RTX – 3000 – Series occurs.

With the GeForce RTX 3000 brings Nvidia a significant leap in performance in the 500-Euro -Class: The graphics card should be used in 3D games for example 32 deliver percent more frames per second than their nominal predecessor GeForce RTX 2070 (not SUPER). The GeForce RTX 3070 is on the level of the old top model GeForce RTX 2070 Ti (+/- 5 percent) before two years for 1300 Euro appeared.

Also on board: improved ray tracing thanks to Ampere architecture, RTX IO for streaming data from an SSD directly into the graphics memory and a sophisticated cooler. The latter towers above the PCB in order to push some of the waste heat through the aluminum fins without resistance. This is supposed to improve the cooling performance, but it also means potentially higher CPU temperatures. The fans stop when the load is low – the graphics card is then silent.

The back part of the GeForce RTX 3070 Founders Edition is air-permeable to improve cooling.

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Memory stagnation since 2016 There is stagnation in the memory: The GeForce RTX 3070 appears like the GeForce RTX 2070 and their SUPER new edition with 8 GByte GDDR6-RAM. And also the GeForce GTX 1070 of the year 2016 came with 8 GByte (then GDDR5).

Nvidia is playing a possible memory shortage in the year 2020/2021: Many 3D games would be more than 8 GB document, if available, but not mandatory. In complex titles, however, 8 GB can already be scarce today if you use Ultra HD resolution (3840 × 2160 pixels) and high graphics settings . Unlike the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti with 11 GByte RAM advertises Nvidia the GeForce RTX 3070 For 1440 p-Gaming (WQHD, 2560 × 1440 Pixel).

Storage capacities are particularly exciting when a new generation of game consoles is due. With the Playstation 5 and Xbox Series X, the jump is lower than with the previous generation changes, but effects on the PC market are to be expected. Because: the vast majority of 3D games are developed “cross-platform” these days. In order for games to look good and run smoothly on as many platforms as possible, developers orientate themselves on the memory expansion of the consoles from unclean frame times and thus a jerky gaming experience to reduced frame rates. When in doubt, users should lower the graphics settings.

Model GeForce RTX 3070 GeForce RTX 3070 GeForce RTX 2070 GeForce RTX 2070 Ti GPU GA 102 GA 104 TU 106 TU 102 FP 32 – Shader Cores 8704 5888 2304 4352 Base rate / boost 1440 / 1710 MHz 1500 / 1730 MHz 1410 / 1710 MHz 1350 / 1635 MHz theoretical computing power FP 32 30 TFlops 20 TFlops 7.9 TFlops 14, 2 TFlops Memory amount / type 10 GByte GDDR6X 8 GByte GDDR6 8 GByte GDDR6 11 GByte GDDR6 Interface / transfer rate 320 Bit / 760 GByte / s 256 Bit / 448 GByte / s 256 Bit / 448 GByte / s 352 Bit / 616 GByte / s Total Board Power ( TBP) 320 Watt 220 Watt 175 Watt 260 Watt A lot of performance for the money For 500 Euro represents the GeForce RTX 3070 is an exciting graphics card. The upscale Mi