A whole load of benchmarks for the RTX 3070 has leaked out and according to these benchmarks, the card is faster than the previous generation flagship, the RTX 2080ti. The performance metrics were leaked courtesy of Whycry over at Videocardz.
According to the benchmarks, the 8nm Ampere GA104-based NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 graphics card edges out the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti which is the last-gen Turing-based flagship. The RTX 3070 is just slightly faster than the RTX 2080 Ti flagship and as drivers and APIs improve over the next year or so, the performance of the RTX 3000 series will also increase more.
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All tests were performed on an AIB card with NVIDIA reference clocks and default settings. The RTX 3070 scores 8,749 points in the Fire Strike Ultra graphics test and 17,115 points in Fire Strike Extreme. In Time Spy Extreme the card scores 6,907 points and 13,945 in the ‘performance’ preset. In the newly introduced ray tracing DX12 benchmark called Port Royal, the RTX 3070 scores 8324 points.
The RTX 3070 is the current budget card of the RTX 3000 series with a $499 price tag. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 is the first desktop GA104-based model. This card will feature 5888 CUDA cores and 8 GB of GDDR6 (non-X) memory. The GA104 is the second fastest chip in the Ampere architecture and is based on Samsung’s 8nm process node. The GPU spans 392.5mm² and features 17.4 Billion transistors which is almost the same number as the TU102 GPU
NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 3070 also comes packed with next-generation RT (Ray-Tracing) cores, Tensor cores, and brand-new SM or streaming multi-processor units. The RTX 3070 has a bus width of 256-bit which allows bus memory speeds of 14 GB/s. The card was originally supposed to release on 15th October but now will be available on the 29th of October. The Founders Edition will hit retail at $499 US.
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