Nvidia's $499 RTX 3070 outpaces the $1,200 RTX 2080 Ti

[Marc]

Now is a great time if you've been considering to build a gaming PC.

Nvidia has announced the RTX 3070, a $499 graphics card that's said to be faster than the more expensive RTX 2080 Ti, that costs around $1,200. That's a crazy price jump.

With 20 shader TFLOPS, 40 RT TFLOPS, and 163 Tensor TFLOPS, the RTX 3070 is specced for high-end gaming. That's courtesy of the Ampere graphics architecture, and a whopping 5,888 CUDA cores. It's also equipped with 8GB of GDDR6 memory.

Source: https://www.pcgamer.com/nvidia-rtx-3070-graphics-card-announcement/

There are more powerful RTX cards but they're also more expensive:

Graphics Card Name	RTX 3090	RTX 3080	RTX 3070
GPU Name	Ampere GA102-300	Ampere GA102-200	Ampere GA104-300
Process Node	Samsung 8N	Samsung 8N	Samsung 8N
CUDA Cores	10496	8704	5888
Boost Clock	1700 MHz	1710 MHz	1730 MHz
Memory Capacity	24 GB GDDR6X	10 GB GDDR6X	8 GB GDDR6
Memory Bus	384-bit	320-bit	256-bit
Bandwidth	936 GB/s	760 GB/s	512 GB/s
Memory Speed	19.5 Gbps	19 Gbps	16 Gbps
TDP	350W	320W	220W
Price	$1,499	$699	$499
Release date	September 24	September 17	October

What do you think? Would you consider the RTX 3070 graphics card for your gaming PC?

 

[28142]

Looks like the RTX 3090 is actually their new Titan card. Not normally a consumer card so it's honestly weird seeing it this cheap. The price for titan cards includes the cloud stuff and AI software though so I presume that stuff isn't gonna be with the 3090.

Also makes sense with the naming scheme then, drop the xx60 in return for bringing the titans to consumers, or at least a market inbetween.

For the 3070 vs the 2080ti, I'm gonna have to say that's just PR talk, at least until we get some proper benchmarks. A bit faster? Sure, but that's expected. Better? That 3gb less of memory is quite a bit. Even the 3080 is missing 1gb. I'd say it's more comparable to the 2080 standard honestly. Same memory, better speeds which again, is just expected.

The prices look good, but this is just MSRP prices, you'll most likely be paying more for them.

 

[InfiniteDream]

Been looking to upgrade my Gtx 1060 3gb so its probably the best Dollar per Value I can get right now so likely I will get one.