NVIDIA released a statement regarding the availability of the GeForce RTX 3070 graphics card and has pushed back the launch of the RTX 3070 back by two weeks and will now launch on October 29th. In the statement, NVIDIA also shared some official performance figures for the RTX including a graph showing RTX 3070 performance in synthetic and gaming scenarios.
NVIDIA has postponed the RTX 3070 release because they want to avoid limited stock at launch and they say more cards are being produced to meet the demand. In the latest performance numbers provided by NVIDIA, the GeForce RTX 3070 trades blows with the RTX 2080Ti while being 60% faster on average than the GeForce RTX 2070. In some gaming titles, the GeForce RTX 3070 is a good bit ahead of the GeForce RTX 2080Ti.
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NVIDIA also showcased the performance of RTX 3070 in several professional and content creation applications which is something that NVIDIA hasn’t done before for its 70 tier graphics cards. The benchmarks for the games were run on a testbench consisting of an Intel Core i9 CPU at 1440p resolution and the highest possible settings with RTX/DLSS enabled.
From the graph, the RTX 3070 appears to offer slightly higher performance than RTX 2080 Ti (108% on average), but in some instances, the card is slower (Borderlands/Blender/TimeSpy Extreme). On the other hand, the card offers 147% to 163% performance of RTX 2070 in games and 153% to 226% in synthetic benchmarks.
In their statement, NVIDIA officially claimed the RTX 3070 is 60% faster than the RTX 2070. They said:
Across a variety of ray-traced and rasterized DirectX and Vulkan titles, the GeForce RTX 3070 delivers similar or faster performance than the GeForce RTX 2080Ti (which sold for twice the price) and is on average 60% faster than the original GeForce RTX 2070.
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. 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.
