i want my
rtx
well chances are you're not getting one
i had the rtx 3070 dual oc
launch video ready for you guys last
night
at nda lyft but then i was like if
something was bothering me i was like no
i'm just to wait until the product
launches for the end consumer to see
what's going on and to at least before
we get into this review
update the situation on stock and
pricing
and whatnot and it appears that the same
thing has
happened with the 3070 that's happened
with the 3080 that's happened with the
30 90.
and the only way i can see this at the
moment
is instead of having eight gates going
into wonderland
you've only got two gates going in but
you've also got
all these people that suddenly want to
go to wonderland
and the problem is is that you're going
to have a massive queue
and so there's that problem right there
even though amd have just announced
their competing cards
it still doesn't matter people just want
their rtx
3000 series cards and what i can see at
the moment is there will be a few models
that will be coming in at msrp this
being one of them that's the azus juul
but there are other models there that
the pricing
at least in australia people asked me to
update the pricing and they tagged me on
twitter and stuff like that
and what you're seeing with this pricing
is an rtx 3070
in some places of the world say strix
for example will cost more even than an
entry-level rtx 3080
which really should not be happening and
that's not to do with like it's not
nvidia's fault and a lot of times it's
not
the retailer's fault it's actually
there's called distributors
and a lot of these guys in a lot of
different places around the world
they're milking that supply chain at the
moment and they know because they know
demand's so high they're like look we
can charge
the retailers more for these cards and
then the retailers then have to
pretty much buck the cost because
they've got people who
really want to get their hands on the
rtx 3000 so that's kind of what's going
on if you do see
um prices with problems don't go out and
straight away just go the retail is
ripping me off
because it's a lot of times not the
retailer's fault
and in fact you can see cards coming in
at least in australia i saw
our cards up for decent prices like
there was one up for 809 aussie dollars
on pre-order and so if you get in with a
pre-order now
you'll i guess have a better chance of
getting a card
sooner than later however with that
update aside when these cards
do come in back into stock and you can
buy one for around the price that i'm
saying in this video
and you want to go and buy one how is
the zeus jewel
going to perform now this is not the oc
version that's a i guess i'm so used to
saying dual oc
that i actually had to when i did the
original recording i was like damn did i
say dulo c
because that's what i'm used to testing
with these dual cards but this is the
not oc and
when we pull up the 1080p numbers for
you guys we can see that it's coming a
little bit behind that of the founders
edition
so i expect if you do get your hands on
oc versions of the rtx 3070 for example
then it's going to perform pretty much
around the level of the founders card
and moving through the 1080p numbers and
then onto the 1440p
numbers shows the same trend where it's
just coming
that little bit behind in all the titles
that we tested here
and then showing you guys the 4k numbers
showed the same story now of course is
coming very close to that of the 2080 ti
trading blows with that of the previous
flagship 1200
us card and so the value here is
extremely good
now there is some worry about the 8
gigabyte frame buffer and basically if
you're gaming at 1440p
high refresh rates i feel this is where
this card is going to be best suited
where 4k the 8 gigabytes of vram could
cause some troubles for you
even in say a year's time especially
with the consoles coming out with 16
gigabytes available
with at least the ones that are targeted
towards 4k and then we've also got amd's
option which will be coming in
with 16 gigabytes of vram 2. so one of
the most important factors about buying
a car especially if you want to get one
around msrp
is you're probably worried about the
cooling performance and subsequently the
weight
and how big that cooler is and here is
where we've got a card that weighs in
over one kilogram so similar to that in
weight of the founders card
however the measurements are a bit
bigger on all three dimensions so if you
do want to mount this
in a mini itx case then you will have to
be aware of these which i'll put up on
the screen for you
it does have a metal back plate and on
the rear you've got three display port
outs
and two hdmi outs then you've got two 92
millimeter fans
and these do a pretty good job of
cooling where i've measured on the
performance mode which is the default
mode out of the box
i measured temperatures coming in under
that of 70 degrees
out of the box at 73 fan speeds which
this seems like the sweet spot for the
cooling
versus the noise and then if you switch
it onto quiet mode the temperatures will
get a bit hotter
so i personally actually like leaving it
in quiet mode
but then under vaulting the card where
i'm going to say this pretty much in
every 3000 series card that comes
through here
i would suggest undervolting where
you're saving quite a substantial amount
of power
but at the same time you're also keeping
your card cooler
and quieter so switching to the quiet
mode and
under vaulting do go hand in hand
perfectly
for this graphics card right here the
zeus dual and so you will taste
some very good temps versus noise even
on an msrp card so if you want to go the
other way with overclocking
this is where the zeus dual won't be as
good at least as the founders card that
came through here
where it was a little bit more limited
so i would suggest either leaving it out
of the box on the performance bias mode
or dropping it down with an under vault
and switching to quiet mode
where both will be very good though i do
heavily recommend
under vaulting other features unique to
this card include some subtle rgb
lighting
on the inner space of the card and
there's a stainless 304
input output shield where you've got
three display port outs and two hdmi 2.1
now the hdmi 2.1s you do get an extra
one
on the zeus cards from what i'm seeing
even on the msrp entry level cards
versus the standard founders and a lot
of the other cards too all the other
cars that have come through here
have had those standard three display
port outs and only a single
hdmi 2.1 out so i do like that azusa is
adding that extra hdmi 2.1
especially since a big factor at least
for me a big
plus side of the 3000 series cards is
the fact that they can get
4k 120 hertz 10 bit and gaming at this
is an absolutely incredible experience
even if you're gaming on
those competitive games that are easy to
run this will definitely do the job
at 4k 120 hertz so depending on the
settings of course now
talking about the ray tracing
performance on the rtx 3070
joule it's pretty much the same as the
rtx 3070 founders
so if you want to put on ray tracing at
least at 4k
max settings it's not really going to be
happening even on the 3090
but i will say one thing fort nightmares
that's this latest update that's rolling
around
it looked incredible with ray tracing on
and i'm not going to
downplay that but if you want to have
ray tracing on i would have some
more realistic expectations of lowering
the resolution
and also the settings and the final
thing to mention
on the rtx 3000 series is you do get
better productivity scores than that of
the rtx 2000 series which was already
really good in some applications
you've got that rtx studio driver and
you've got that updated end bank encoder
as well as av01 decode
and with all the numbers and explanation
of the features out of the way
you're wondering should i buy the rtx
3070 zeus dual is this the one
for me and to answer that is do you want
a card that's going to come around msrp
at least when it comes
back into stock and you're not getting
gouge for it and the answer for me is a
big yes that's because
even though it was slightly inferior to
the founders card i feel like this card
right
here is actually going to be in stock
where i'm hearing the founders cards are
going to be in very limited supply so if
you can get a founder's card
for msrp then i'd definitely hit that up
but if you can't then this card right
here is going to do a really good job
of delivering especially if you want to
undervolt then you're going to have a
whisper quiet card that's pulling in
just over 130 watts and at the same time
you've got a car that looks sleek
it's simple and it's got the extra
output at the back
which could come in handy anyhow guys i
hope you enjoyed
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what do you think of this card right
here love reading your thoughts and
opinions as always
and the last thing i will talk about
before i get on out of here is
the pre-order thing at least in
australia you can pre-order cards my
30-80 pre-order has come through
i've woken up really early this morning
and we're going to start vlogging that
for the 100 flip up challenge i'm going
to go up it's about a
50 minute drive for me so i'm going to
go up and pick that up where the
person's message me is like do you want
me to ship it out to you
and i'm like no i'm going to go pick
this up because it's a i guess it's one
of those things where you got to be
patient
and eventually it will come through and
i will explain that more in the 100
flip up challenge but in the meantime
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you