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ell, would you look at that?
Another new graphics card
that you can’t actually buy
anywhere. Who’d have thought it?
Nvidia may have attempted to cut
Ethereum miners out of the loop with
its Lite Hash Rate system, but the
insatiable demand for new graphics
cards after a nine-month shortage is
clearly so titanic that nothing can stop
the scalping bulldozer in its tracks.
At a nominal price of £529 inc VAT,
the RTX 3070 Ti would already be
asking a lot from mid-range gamers.
We’re so used to bonkers eBay
pricing, we sometimes forget that
£500 is more than most people pay
for a graphics card even in normal
times. At the current eBay price of
~£1,100, it’s just out of the question
unless you’re desperate.
If we look at the Nvidia store pricing,
though, the RTX 3070 Ti only costs
£60 more than the RTX 3070, whichREVIEWS / GRAPHICS CARDS
NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX
3070 Ti FE /~£1,
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seems about right for its small bump in spec. Unlike the
RTX 3080 Ti (see p18), which adds 1,536 CUDA cores to the
RTX 3080 spec, the 3070 Ti only adds 256 CUDA cores to
the RTX 3070’s 5,888, giving you 6,144 of them.
The RTX 3070 Ti basically has a fully enabled GA
GPU, with all of its 48 streaming multiprocessors
(SMs) intact, giving you 48 corresponding RT cores.
Comparatively, the vanilla RTX 3070 has two SMs disabled.
It’s not a huge difference when it comes to core spec. The
only other differences are clock speeds, with the 3070 Ti
having a 1770MHz boost clock, compared to 1725MHz on
the 3070.
The 3070 Ti also has faster memory, with its GDDR6X
memory running at 1188MHz (19GHz effective), while the
3070’s memory runs at 1750MHz, but because it’s only
GDDR6, this gives it an effective frequency of 14GHz. The
end result is a decent step up in memory bandwidth on the
Ti model, topping out at 608GB/sec compared to 448GB/
sec on the standard RTX 3070.Performance
As you would imagine from the spec, the RTX 3070 Ti is a
bit quicker than the standard RTX 3070, but not by a huge
amount. At this card’s target resolution of 2,560 x 1,440,SPEC
Graphics processor
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 Ti,
1575MHz base clock, 1770MHz
Pipeline
6,144 CUDA cores, 96 ROPS
RT cores
48 (2nd-gen)
Tensor cores
192 (3rd-gen)
Memory
8GB GDDR6X, 1188MHz (19GHz effective)
Memory interface
256-bit
Card interface
16x PCI-E 4
Memory bandwidth
608GB/sec
Number of slots
2
Power connectors
1 x 12-pin (2 x 8-pin PCI-E
adaptor supplied)
Card length
267mmReviews