Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 Ti

Overview

The simple math is this: the RTX 3070 Ti costs 20% more than the 3070 and is on average 8% faster. It does nothing to strengthen Nvidia’s position against AMD. There’s no extra VRAM, and gamers get a small performance increase to justify the extra $100 over the RTX 3070.

-- As reviewed by TechSpot

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Last revision on March 15, 2024

Reviewers Liked

Nice design
Much faster than the 2070 Super
Great 1440p and good 4K gaming performance
Nvidia's best-in-class ray tracing, DLSS 2.0

Reviewers Didn't Like

750W power supply requirement and extra power draw
Clunky 12-pin power adapter
Just $100 less than the faster 3080
8GB of memory may limit future 4K gaming potential
Founders Edition cooler isn't as effective as on other RTX 30 models, and lacks extra features
No USB-C

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Expert reviews and ratings

By TechSpot on June 09, 2021

The Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 Ti delivers some excellent 1440p performance and looks good while doing it. The problem is, though, that every other graphics card can do that right now, meaning there's little reason to pick the RTX 3070 Ti over another GPU.

By TechRadar on June 09, 2021

Nvidia’s new $600 GeForce RTX 3070 Ti is a good graphics card for 4K and especially 1440p gaming, in a time where it's hard to acquire any GPU. If stock becomes plentiful again you have better options however.

By PCWorld on June 09, 2021

The Nvidia RTX 3070 Ti is an excellent graphics card that offers buyers future-proof specs and excellent performance in 1440p and 1080p. If you can get your hands on one, we thoroughly recommend you grab one. However, for 4K gamers that want to enjoy ray tracing graphics, the RTX 3080 family remains the lowest entry point.

By TrustedReviews on June 09, 2021

In a world where GPUs were actually easy to buy, the 3070 Ti doesn't strike me as a major leap ahead of the 3070. If you're willing to spend $599 on a video card, what's another $100 to reach touch heights of gaming nirvana with the RTX 3080? That card would be even more capable with 4K and 1440p performance, and it's better equipped to crank up ray tracing settings.

By Engadget on June 09, 2021

With a $599 retail price, I was expecting more from the RTX 3070 Ti. AMD’s RX 6800 is still technically priced lower than the RTX 3070 Ti, and my tests showed it surprisingly outperformed the Nvidia card. On the Nvidia side, you get the addition of DLSS and with that better ray-tracing performance if you couple them together. Nvidia’s NVENC and professional tooling support is also extremely useful if you’re video editing or streaming to Twitch.

By The Verge on June 09, 2021

Nvidia's new GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Founders Edition is another great Ampere GPU release, but it can struggle to beat the Radeon RX 6800 across the board.

By TweakTown on June 09, 2021

As an RTX 3070 replacement that slots in at the same price point, perhaps in a year's time, the 3070 Ti would have been great - a nice performance bump without any downsides apart from increased power draw. As it stands though, we can't recommend the 3070 Ti while the 3060 Ti, 3070 and 3080 all offer considerably better value.

By EuroGamer on June 09, 2021

Nvidia’s Ti upgrades usually come in two forms: the marginally better version of the card it shares its name with, or a marginally weaker version of the card one bracket up. Take the 3080 Ti as a perfect example of one; despite its name, it has more in common with and is more like a baby 3090 than a 3080. The 3070 Ti is not that – it is not a baby 3080. It is a slightly improved RTX 3070. It’s good at that job. The question you have to ask is – is it worth an extra $100? You know what you get for it now – you decide.

By VG24/7 on June 09, 2021

If Ars' comment sections are any indication, readers had been holding out hope that an eventual "3070 Ti" would mostly copy the original RTX 3070's spec sheet, only with more VRAM. The 3080 Ti kinda-sorta delivered in that respect by jumping from its predecessor's 10GB of VRAM to 12GB. But the 3070 Ti instead insists that its upgrade potential makes more sense with faster VRAM, not more. In some test results, that bears out. But that decision arguably does not pan out in enough results—and certainly not when compared to how much an additional $100 nets you from an RTX 3080.

By Ars Technica on June 09, 2021

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