Nvidia RTX 3070 — Is the gaming performance worth it?

Nvidia launched the RTX 3070 on October 28 final 12 months, ushering in 2080 Ti efficiency at a much more inexpensive worth level of simply $500 USD. It was nice information on the time, and we right here at PC Invasion have been thrilled that 4K 60 fps extremely settings efficiency was lastly coming to the lots. Nevertheless, availability for Nvidia’s Ampere (and AMD’s RX 6000 Sequence) playing cards has been a little bit of a large number since then.

PC house owners must camp out for hours at shops for restricted resupplies and on-line retailers proceed to get swarmed by bots, miners, scalpers, and regular shoppers. To make issues worse, costs have additionally grown to double or practically triple the price of MSRP for some graphics card fashions because of the legal guidelines of provide and demand and different elements together with tariff worth hikes. Some have additionally gone the best way of shopping for expensive, custom-built computer systems simply get new graphics playing cards.

With the entire price and trouble concerned in getting one thing just like the Nvidia RTX 3070, one has to marvel if the visible expertise is actually price it. In any case, crypto costs have crashed earlier than. It might occur once more and trigger a return to regular pricing. Likewise, it could simply be price holding out for yet one more technology (or one other Ti/Tremendous refresh) in case your outdated graphics card continues to be getting the job finished for now. There’s lots to think about, so let’s see if the RTX 3070 is actually deserving of all of the hype.

A distinct take

Identical to everybody else, we too struggled to get our arms on an RTX 30 sequence card for testing till not too long ago. Different 3070 critiques have been out for over six months now although, so we determined to take a unique strategy for our efficiency overview of the Nvidia RTX 3070. As a substitute of simply throwing a bunch of graphs and knowledge at you for a similar video games, we’ll present another common video games with a concentrate on framerate requirements and visible high quality.

We’ll additionally talk about whether or not options like DLSS and RTX ray tracing reside as much as the hype, in addition to level out how the Ampere GPU structure performs at completely different resolutions in varied video games. For example, it’s possible you’ll be stunned to find that it excels at 1440p and 4K extra so than 1080p in some titles. For that cause, there shall be extra concentrate on increased decision efficiency. For those who’re nonetheless gaming at 1080p, you may wish to assume twice about upgrading to the RTX 3070, or consider the price of a brand new monitor improve. There are additionally many market elements at play which we’ll wrap up the dialogue with.

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As this can be a lengthy content material piece, it’s possible you’ll really feel inclined simply to leap to the gaming efficiency and last part, however we’ve included loads of extra info on different options and what we consider them after testing that will help you get a grip on what all of the RTX 3070 actually affords. You can even be taught extra in regards to the particular mannequin we examined and see how we obtained our outcomes.