NVIDIA has lifted the review embargo for the NVIDIA GeForce RTX3070 and the first third-party benchmarks have surfaced for it. NVIDIA had stated that this GPU will provide similar performance to the RTX2080Ti. And while the RTX3070 cannot match or exceed the RTX2080Ti, it’s really close to it.
Tomshardware benchmarked 9 games and discovered that the RTX3070 is sliiiiiightly slower than the RTX2080Ti.
Similarly, and according to PCWorld, the RTX3070 offers slightly worse performance in ray tracing games, like Metro: Exodus and Shadow of the Tomb Raider.
To be fair, there are some occasions in which the RTX3070 can match or even surpass the RTX2080Ti. For instance, Guru3D benchmarked Resident Evil 3 Remake and saw the RTX3070 offering a bit better performance than the RTX2080Ti. Death Stranding was also another game in which the RTX3070 was as fast as the RTX2080Ti.
Kitguru also witnessed the same behavior in a variety of games. Basically, the RTX3070 can be slightly slower or slightly faster than the RTX2080Ti.
Bottom line is that the NVIDIA GeForce RTX3070 does offer similar performance to the RTX2080Ti. Now whether you’ll be able to find an RTX3070 at its proposed MSRP is debatable. After all, you still can’t find an RTX3080 or RTX3090 at their initial MSRP. Furthermore, availability will undoubtedly be an issue with this new Ampere GPU, so good luck getting one.
Lastly, these benchmarks are for the Founder’s Edition. Obviously the custom AIB models will run faster the FE. However, the same can be said about the RTX2080Ti (custom AIB models running faster than the FE).
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I feel bad for the idiots who sold their 2080tis for 400-500 for a 1-2% difference LOL
Exactly, it wouldn’t make any sense. Performance is on par, and 3070 will cost around $500, but 2080 Ti has more VRAM.
Imagine you bought 2080ti for around 400$ and now you are selling it for around 900$
Many of them don’t even care about the money so.
People that suffer from fomo.
Nobody would sell a 2080ti to buy a 3070, they’d buy a 3080 or wait for a 3080ti as they’d have the common sense to know that the next gen 70s would be on a par with previous gen’s 80s as they usually are.
2080Ti still has more Vram. Also there is 0 RT performance gain from 2080Ti to 3070, so much for “second gen” RT cores.
No one is buying a top of the line card to switch to a mid-range one. Anyone selling their 2080TI likely aim to pick up a RTX 3090/3080
Check again after a few drivers. The 3070 will be at least 10FPS ahead of 2080Ti in 99% of games.
As I imagined, the 3070 will be faster or slower than a 2080 Ti, just like a 1080 and a 2070. But the most important info is related to RT performance. 3070 seems inferior on this area. If the leaks of 6800 XT competing in rasterisation with a 3080 but having the RT performance of a 2080 Ti and it is released with a good price, it may be a better deal. We’ll find out very soon.
If you are on a budget and building a pc… this is incredible value.
$400-500 is not a budget, it’s already high end…
Budget would be like $150-200.