In the field of components, this autumn will be dominated by new generations of video cards and processors. As far as GPUs are concerned, we only have Nvidia’s RTX 3080 and 3090 based on the Ampere architecture. Nvidia will add a third entrant to its line-up on Tuesday, in the form of the GeForce RTX 3070. That is two days earlier than initially planned and just before competitor AMD with more information about its new Radeon RX 6000 series of video cards. comes out.

With the GeForce RTX 3070 Nvidia renews its offer in the video cards segment around the 513 euros, while the already released RTX 3080 that for the segment of hold 700 euros did. During the first Ampere presentation in September, Nvidia was immediately clear about the expected performance of the RTX 3070: Faster than the RTX 2080 Ti. In the graph, the dot of the new map did reach the same height as that of the 2080 Ti, but it was provided with an accompanying text that pointed to the performance advantage. That immediately gave the impression that the RTX 3070 according to Nvidia itself will be something, but not much faster. are the RTX 2080 Ti, a concrete measure that we can use in this review . Furthermore, Nvidia itself states that the RTX 3070 average 60 must be percent faster than RTX 2070.

RTX 3070: the new mainstream for around the 500 euro With the previous generation, we saw Nvidia implement a significant price increase from the GTX 1070 to the RTX 2070. Especially the Founders Edition became a lot more expensive. With this generation, the manufacturer seems to have come back to that. Now we have to say that halfway through the Turing generation a ‘price correction’ was already made, with the RTX 2070 Super in response to the Radeon RX 5700 and 5700 XT.

With the RTX 3070 Nvidia takes a slightly different approach. Not only is there a price increase compared to the predecessors, also for this x 70-series -gpu uses a chip from a higher segment, in the form of the GA 104. At the RTX 2070 this was still the TU 106; fits the RTX 2070 Super became TU 104 ‘s used. AMD’s latest generation of Navi cards will be unveiled Wednesday night, but Nvidia seems to want to disrupt the Radeon party with the RTX’s reviews 3070 a day before instead of a day after the announcement of the RX 6000 series live.

Video Card RTX 3080 RTX 3070 RTX 2070 Super RTX 2070 GTX 1070 Gpu GA 102 GA 104 TU 104 TU 106 GP 104 Architecture Ampere Ampere Turing Turing Pascal Process 8nm 8nm 12 nm 12 nm 16 nm Die-size 628, 4mm² 392, 5mm² 545 mm² 445 mm² 320 mm² Transistors 28 Billion 17, 4 Billion 13, 6 Billion 10, 8 Billion 7.2 Billion CUDA Cores 8704 5888 2560 2304 1920 Tensor Cores 272 184 320 288 0 RT Cores 68 46 40 36 0 Texture units 272 184 160 144 120 Rops 96 96 64 64 68 Baseclock 1440 MHz 1500 MHz 1605 MHz 1410 MHz 1506 MHz Boostclock 1710 MHz 1730 MHz 1770 MHz 1620 MHz 1683 MHz Vram 10 GB gddr6x 8GB gddr6 8GB gddr6 8GB gddr6 8GB gddr5 Memory Speed ​​ 19 Gbit / s 14 Gbit / s 14 Gbit / s 14 Gbit / s 8Gbit / s Memory Bus 320 bit 256 bit 256 bit 256bit 256bit Bandwidth 1070 GB / s 448 GB / s 448 GB / s 448 GB / s 256 GB / s Tgp 320 W 220 W 215 W 175 W 150 W MSRP FE

(at introduction) 719 euro 519 Euro 536 euro 519 euro 513 euro Released 17 September 2020 27 October 2020 July 9 2019 27 September 2018 10 j uni 2016 GDDR6 for the plebs The RTX 3070 is the first Ampere card appearing with normal GDDR6. The more luxurious RTX 3080 and 3090 each feature the faster GDDR6X memory, which improves memory bandwidth and thus performance. The RTX 3070 has therefore taken a step back, which is beneficial for the costs , the requirements for the pcb, the power supply and the energy consumption.

Nvidia has not upgraded the memory at all compared to the previous generation in this case. As with the RTX 2070 and 2070 Super it is about 8GB GDDR6 on 14 Gigabit per second and because the memory bus has also remained the same, the memory bandwidth is with 448 GB per second equal to predecessors. Besides the bandwidth, the amount of memory of the RTX 3070 is also a point of discussion, because now a video card of more than 500 With eight gigabytes of euro, which has the same amount of video memory as its two predecessors, we are somewhat frowned upon. Rumors about a 17 GB version of the RTX 3070 have been circulating in recent times, but then there were similar rumors that this version was canceled used to be.