the rtx 3070 is it worth 499
msrp well to answer that question
straight away
an overwhelming yes that's from me
but let's get over all those numbers
first for you guys and starting off at
1080p
we tested eight different games here
today those being shadow of the tomb
raider
do maternal horizon zero dawn fortnite
and this is the nightmares update
tom clancy's the division two the outer
worlds and also mech warrior 5.
now what we're going to see here is at
1080p
the numbers really depend on the game
you're playing and i thought when i
started testing this card
i would see a trend where perhaps the
3070 performed better at
1080p and then at 4k the 28ti performed
better
but this wasn't the case at all in vice
versa actually where
it actually more depended on the game
and which title won at which resolution
we can see here at 1440p they just like
1080p
trade blows and it actually depends on
the title
and then stepping things up to 4k they
yet again trade blows
but here's the winning factor for the
3070 well actually two big wedding
factors
first of all that price point and second
of all ongoing updates where driver
updates will make this card
perform even better going forward into
the future
the gaming numbers for the price point
are quite simply phenomenal that's of
course
we've got to talk about the big elephant
in the room and that is the supply
so whether you can get one of these at
day one is going to be another thing
where this time around
i've spoken to so many different people
and it's always the same story the
demand
for the rtx 3000 series is like none
other
that no one's seen in the tech space
period
so in order if you don't get one of
these on day one
rest assured you will get one you just
have to be patient but
what i'm going to see here is that the
power consumption is another
big factor for this card really just
landing a big victory over the 2080 ti
where we show you guys the power
consumption numbers here
we can see that it's just beating out
the 28 ti but another thing is too
since i've been focusing heavily on
undervaulting the
3000 series cards the 3070 just like the
3080 and the 3090
does benefit greatly from a solid
undervolt now
tuning this at around just over 1800
megahertz
and then actually upping the memory
speeds in tandem
saw our power consumption drop roughly
around 70 to 80 watts depending on the
game
and the application being used but again
that's down from 220 watts direct draw
on the card itself
so you can get this card tuned to around
roughly 140 watts with the performance
you're seeing
now coupled with the weight of this card
right here this is the founders but i'm
also checking out some other cards as
well
and a lot of these cards are coming just
over one kilogram
but coupled with this smaller footprint
and the lower power consumption
especially if you undervolt the card
this will be great for people who want
to install a high-powered gpu
into a mini itx case for example now in
terms of the cooler design they're going
with instead of the founders cards
the 3080 and the 3090 which had a fan on
the rear of the card
this has two fans on the underside of
the card however it still has the back
of the card being open
in that it can blow air through now my
one critiquing point about the 30 70
founders
versus say the 3080 sounders and the
3090 founders is that since it's smaller
in length this actually places this
second fan right over your memory so
it's basically when you're gaming
blowing hot air straight onto your dims
or your ddr4 memory and this is the
thing i don't know over time
if this could potentially shorten the
lifespan
of your ddr4 memory for example but my
gut says of course with experience with
pc
parts the hotter something runs over
time the more likely it is to fail
they're going over the rear of the car
this is a standard rtx 3000
output designed here three display port
outs and one hdmi
2.1 and this is important if you want to
get the 120 hertz 4k
10 bit experience which is very nice i'm
not going to
hop on about it like i've harped on in
the past about the 4k
oled but if you want to play more
competitive style games
at 4k 120 hertz this card will
definitely do it
as opposed to the 38 and 3090 which are
more suited to upping the settings
at 4k another key difference between
this card and the 3080 and 3090
is the 12 pin power connector included
it only requires
one single eight pin versus the bigger
cards which required two eight pins
to this 12 pin connector now in terms of
the cooling performance this is where
the
3070 founders really did a good job
where you'd want to use the auto
out of the box settings in my opinion
which took the card to 48
and at these temperatures and also fan
speeds it was
whisper quiet which was actually very
impressive i mean taking it to 72
degrees but i did dealt it
adjust the temperatures here for my
normalized temperature testing against
other cards that i've tested
so if you guys go to another review that
i've done on a graphics card
you'll be able to compare the
temperatures to that particular card we
can see that upping the fan speeds to 60
did bring down the temperatures same
with 80 and 100
but i thought out of the box this thing
was tuned for
maximum noise versus temperature
efficiency but then the added benefit if
you want to undervolt it which
i do highly recommend you do you'll be
tasting even lower temperatures and
lower noise
which this cooler is geared up to handle
140 watts for example
very easily but what if you want to go
the other way say for instance you don't
care about power consumption
you just want the best performance right
here right now and you want to overclock
well here's where this car did actually
quite well
even though the cork clock did not go as
high as i've seen in the past
where it came just under that of 100
megahertz the memory overclocks were
some of the biggest i've ever seen here
in the history
of the channel scoring over a 1 000
megahertz boost
which in effective terms is a 2
gigahertz boost
which put this card at a very healthy
boost in fps
after we overclocked it and the added
benefit of that was the power
consumption didn't actually go up that
much i believe i measured around about
another 20 watts
maximum on power draw after overclocking
the card
anyhow all that information out of the
way brings us to a conclusion with the
rtx 3070
and i'm gonna have to fight over the
baby maggie out here on the balcony
singing to me during this review and
that's actually a first for me with the
review
where a magpie has been singing out on
my balcony while i'm trying to do the
conclusion what that means is
even a magpie is getting excited about
this rtx 3070 right here
and testing this thing i'm really
excited about the value for money it's
going to be bringing
to the table and one thing i did is i
looked back in history where
i saw a lot of these cards say for
instance a gtx 670 that was the
one of the cards that i remember buying
and
just really playing that card heavily
and that came in around 399 usd i
believe
this card at 4.99 when we look at the
years that have passed eight years
we can see that this card inflation
adjusted
is bringing so much value to the table
where it's performing
slightly better than the previous year's
flagship card
it's giving you guys the great thermals
temperature and power consumption
and although compared to the rtx 2080 ti
you do get a similar feature set in that
you get
rtx broadcast rtx studio drivers
and also the ray tracing itself this
card does differ
in that it does have the hdmi 2.1 port
at the back
you also get a better thermals and lower
power consumption
and better ongoing support that coupled
with the much
lower price floor of this card makes it
an extremely good buy
however there is one disadvantage and
that of course is the 8 gigabytes of
vram
on this card versus the 11 gigabytes of
vram on the 2080 ti
and of course if you compare that to the
rtx 3080 and 3090
they have gddr6x where as opposed to
this card and also the 28 ti
they carry gtd r6 so although everything
on this card isn't flagship
the most important question you guys
have to ask i'm guessing
is is it a true 70 series card does it
bring
that higher end performance at a much
affordable price point
and the answer as we said in the intro
is an overwhelming yes
so if you want to go get one of these
cards i can definitely recommend this if
you're in the market
for a gpu now of course what's amd got
around the corner they're going to
announce that very soon as well
but one thing i can tell you about what
i've spoken to the retailers if you want
to get one of these things
just like the 3080 then you better be
very quick because demand for these
cards
in 2020 with what's going on and
everyone staying indoors
is through the roof there's an
artificial extra layer of demand
that was never there due to the global
pandemic
but this card is definitely going to
entertain you if you're in the market
for something
that can perform anyhow guys with all
that out of the way if you enjoyed
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in the comment section below if you have
any questions about the rtx 3070
and we do have some partner cards coming
up as well as some cool builds
surrounding this card right here so do
stay tuned for the content
to come in the next few days i also
apologize for not getting the review out
for some of you guys who
want to see it straight away i actually
thought the nda was
a day later than it was so that's my
that's my complete uh bad there but
i'll catch you guys in another tech
video very soon peace out for now
bye