Gaming performance
Without beating around the bush, I was very disappointed with the overall performance, especially considering the extremely high power consumption. It’s always up to 65 watts in WQHD, which is more power that a GeForce RTX 3070 Ti draws than a GeForce RTX 3070 FE. In WQHD, this crowbar buys you a lead of only 6.4 percentage points, which sets this new card back so far in terms of efficiency that even some Turing cards only smile wearily.
In Ultra-HD, you manage a meager 8 percentage points advantage with clearly more than 70 watts, which isn’t better. It’s as fast as a Radeon RX 6800 without XT, but requires the same electrical power as a Radeon RX 6800XT or RX 6900XT. That doesn’t even qualify as competitive with much affection and good will.
With ray tracing enabled, the advantage increases to almost 11 percentage points, so the 2 SM won’t let anything happen. But even that can’t really inspire. The full upgrade is much too close to the GeForce RTX 3070 with 46 SM with its 48 SM, and you can feel that here as well. The gap to the GeForce 3080 FE remains here as well.
In summary, the GeForce RTX 3070 is not able to fill the huge gap between the GeForce RTX 3070 and RTX 3080, it is still far too close to the supposedly smaller card for that, but the bottom line is that it is the more sensible product. The installed GDDR6X memory including its higher bandwidth isn’t even close to being needed in any situation and in return it’s a nasty driver in terms of power consumption with its well over 20 watts more power consumption.
The simple GDDR6 would have easily been enough for the actually needed bandwidths and the rather meager 8 GB memory expansion could have been easily forgotten with 2 GB modules. Then you could have brought a much more rounded product to the market, which an ambitious gamer would surely have forgiven the increased power consumption. Whether it was due to the exclusive GDDR6X deal with Micron and the general lack of “normal” GDDR6 memory also remains to be seen. A slimmed down GA102 would have made a lot more sense as a true gap filler than this extremely squeezed out full build.
The remaining up to 50 watts more compared to a GeForce RTX 3070 can’t be explained with simple logic. It can be assumed that the yield of fully functional chips is quite high by now and that they wanted to transfer as many chips as possible into the commodity cycle with slightly modified voltage/frequency curves. That, in turn, could open up a chance for a very successful undervolt if you happened to catch one of the better chips. well, if. Stably I could save up to 20 watts here, but the effort of hours of try & error is hardly to be imposed on a normal customer. At least not at these prices, not even for an RRP of 599 euros, which first has to be realized on the market. And even with just under 280 watts, the card is still very unpleasantly out of the ordinary.
GeForce RTX 3070 Founders Edition
The in-house Founders Edition is solidly made, still acceptably quiet or loud for a dual-slot design, and relatively cool. Visually and haptically, the part is an impeccable offer, only the 12-pin adapter still looks butt-ugly. The cooler lives up to its name and it’s reassuring to know that it can even handle the 300 watts. We already had the power consumption, whereby the newly designed circuit board certainly takes the high TBP into account and is quite convincing. The original board of the RTX 3070 would not have been able to cope with the increased power, just as the smaller cooler would not have been able to cope with the necessary cooling performance. NVIDIA thus knew exactly what performance was really being squandered with this card, for whatever reason.
Conclusion and final remarks
Generally speaking, the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti is certainly an enrichment of the market, even if it seems rather superfluous at first glance. The hash brake only really works with Etherum and so a second, much more effective and not so easy to leverage mining brake is added: the lack of efficiency of this card. This in turn opens up the chance that these cards might even be available for purchase sooner than a GeForce RTX 3070. Gamers are capable of suffering and often enough the energy costs are paid by the parents anyway.
Other than that, this card leaves me a little perplexed. If this was all really planned and intentional, then I really wonder about the reasons. Does NVIDIA really want to throw everything at the front with the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti that is still good as a reserve? Last man standing in graphics hardware or ingenious use of leftovers? Time will tell for sure.
- 1 - Introduction, Unboxing and Technical Data
- 2 - Test System and Methods
- 3 - Teardown, PCB Analysis and Cooler
- 4 - Gaming Performance WQHD + FHD/RTX
- 5 - Gaming Performance Ultra-HD/DLSS
- 6 - Detailled Metrics and Graphics for all Games
- 7 - Frame Times vs. Power Draw
- 8 - Power Draw and Efficiency for all single Games
- 9 - Power Consumption Summary and Hi-Res Measuring
- 10 - PEG, Transients and PSU Recommendation
- 11 - Temperatures and Thermal Imaging
- 12 - Noise, Frequency Analysis and Audio-Sample
- 13 - Summary and Conclusion
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