![]() ![]() The thing is, "future-proofed" for PC gaming is relative. That matches the best RTX 2000-series cards but is surpassed by higher-speed GDDR6x VRAM in pricier RTX 3000-series GPUs. Both debuted at $499, but the newer option typically approaches, and occasionally bests, the RTX 2080 Ti (whose $1,199 MSRP in 2018 sure feels like a kick in the ray-traced teeth nowadays).īut RTX 3070's price-to-performance ratio comes with one significant caveat: a not-so-future-proofed VRAM capacity of 8GB, shipping in the not-as-blistering category of GDDR6. ![]() (Until Nvidia proves otherwise, we assume that availability will continue to be a massive asterisk for this and all other RTX 3000-series cards.) In good news, at least, the RTX 3070 gets off to a roaring start by rendering its 2019 sibling, the RTX 2070 Super, moot. We can only answer some of those questions today. (Ars Technica may earn compensation for sales from links on this post through affiliate programs.) ![]() But what happens when Nvidia scales down the Ampere 7nm promise to a $499 product that more people can afford? And how will that compare to whatever AMD likely has to offer in the same range? Future-proofing around the 1440p threshold Last month's RTX 3080 saw that strategy bear incredible fruit-even if ordering that $699 GPU is still seemingly impossible. Yet without AMD nipping at its heels, Nvidia's annoying strategy seemed to be the right call: the company established the RTX series' exclusive bonus processing cores as a major industry option without opposition, then got to wait a full year before competing with significant power jumps and delectable price cuts. ![]() Pretty much every major RTX 2000-series card overshot with proprietary promises instead of offering brute force worth its inflated costs. Inside of an Nvidia-only bubble, this new GPU is a sensation. This is the GPU Nvidia absolutely needed to reveal before AMD shows up in (expectedly) the same price and power range. In 24 hours, that could change-perhaps drastically.Īhead of AMD's big October 28 event, dedicated to its RDNA 2 GPU line, Nvidia gave us an RTX 3070 Founders Edition to test however we saw fit. As of right now, the RTX 3070 is the finest GPU in this price sector by a large margin. Talking about the RTX 3070, Nvidia's latest $499 GPU launching Thursday, October 29, is tricky in terms of the timing of today's review embargo. ![]()
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