RTX 3070 Reddit Verdict: Great Card Held Back by 8GB

3070 completely outclasses the 2070 and almost doubles the performance of 1080

Circumstance changed already. People won't consider msrp is a deal price for 3070 anymore. Hence still stock left after 3 days. Next step, either throw free game bundles in or steep price reduction.

As someone that's absolutely loved their 1080 for the last four years, this makes me really excited, I'm still getting great results with current games like Doom Eternal and Modern Warfare but maybe I'll finally make the upgrade.

Basically, it's more or less the same card for way less money. Thank God I sold my 2080ti for a good chunk when I got my 3080.

~5-10% Better in RTX/DLSS scenarios than the 2080ti. ~5-10% Worse in standard rendering scenarios than the 2080ti. For general gaming that's about it.

Considering the 1070 gave you 980Ti performance for $380 and the 970 gave you 780Ti performance for $330, this isn't very disruptive. This is just the usual performance leap we've come to expect from an xx70 card, but at a new (higher) price. Anchoring the price of the 2080Ti at $1200 was a genius marketing move by Nvidia. It made all future releases seem like great deals.

NVIDIA halted the release by two weeks just so they can make 8 more cards

Really petty of me, but I've been messaging local scalpers all day today asking if their cards are still for sale.

So its a 2080ti for 500$. Thats great. Now lets see what AMD can offer at this price point.

Ordered one online and drove 120km to the store to pick it up. Worth it.

Very easily [referring to 144fps 1440p gaming capability]

I was able to get the card into my cart 5 times. I was boned at checkout 5 times. Thanks a ton Best Buy. Honestly, with how the numbers are looking, I may not be able to get a card until next summer or even fall. Fuck you Nvidia, stupid-ass paper launches.

Yes. The increase in performance will also be legendary compared to your 1650.

Setting aside the current availability problems, it's not enough of a jump over the standard 3070 and not very competitive against AMD. However, comparing against last gen, it outperforms the 2080ti for like half the price.

Is linus drunk. How is less performance per $ than either 3070 and 3080 a good deal in his eyes?

The 3070 always had a value issue. The 3060ti is a hundred bucks cheaper and in most games, almost as good. The 3070 is what, 5-10% better for 25% more money?

3070 is more than enough for 1080p, go for it

So the XX70 is once again the best value card (the 3080 costs 40% more but is ~20-30% better)?

Can this handle 144 fps 1440p gaming? In most games with high settings

2 year old GPU. I remember getting a GTX 970 for $200 brand new on sale when it was already a year old. So, accounting for inflation, this should really be no more than $300 and I'm sick of people defending these prices just because Nvidia's ridiculous marketing buzz words they've grinded into people.

Eh I'd look for $260-280 in my region. My $300 3070ti hasn't sold lol

That TDP is a little worrisome when you consider the performance of the 3080 and 3070 non-Ti models with their respective TDPs. Great card, but kinda inefficient.

Been running my 3070 for 4 years easy and no plans on replacing anytime soon. When/if it dies then I'll look.

I went from a 3070 Ti to a 9070 XT and its amazing. Highly recommend. Plus you cannot trust Team green, go red

3070 is more than enough for most games at 60fps with most eye candy, at 1080p. And you might have to turn on upscaling for some of those (I see you Cyberpunk). And you may be able to play at 144hz 1080p on most ESPORTS or other games without RT on.

Yes RTX 3070 is great for 1080p gaming, even 1440p. The 8GB VRAM is somewhat limited, but for medium/high settings (avoid ultra) it'll be fine enjoy it.

3070 is great. Majority of games 1440p easy. Ofcourse, RT will drop fps, and you will need to turn down few settings in games like CP2077

Using 3070 for almost 2 years now, go for it, excellent 1440p and 1080p card.

2080 Ti performance for $499 is what I expected after the reveal, and it's great, but they lost me at 8GB GDDR6 VRAM. As someone who wants a long-term purchase and games at 1440p, 8GB is just not good enough. Several new AAA games are already hitting 6-7GB of VRAM usage, in a year or two it's easily going to be not enough.

Your FPS stability will most likely be from your CPU at that point. The 3070 will get you good performance at 1080p for sure without much compromise visually. You wont have DLSS 3 but as far as actually rendered frames it's very good.

8GB is on its last legs. The same stuff going on right now with 8GB happened to 2GB cards back in the day.

3070 was my first card, enjoyed it quite a bit and suspect it would have still be serviceable today! I found it start to struggle in 1440p at higher graphics settings unless I started going to more aggressive DLSS settings

It did just fine with a 8700k and 12700k playing 1440. Did I get max frames? No. Did all my games run good with good frames - YES.

I've had a 3070 for around the same time and it's handled everything I've thrown at it. I OC it when I feel a game is running below what I want and that'll usually get me set. I play mainly FPS stuff

The 3070 is a very powerful card, still have one that my brother uses. The issue is 8gb vram fucked me over sooooo hard. Many modern games couldn't even be fun at 1080p @high settings nowadays. (Indiana jones, horizon forbidden west and the last of us part2) which 2/3 games here originally were ps4 titles!!!! How the hell am I supposed to run my 1440p monitors or my 4k tv on that with games launching over the next years?.. Performance is still perfectly acceptable it's only the vram.

It is a decent card, medium settings. But dont trust someone running tests and assume you need to repaste it. Still 6700xt or better would be stronger choice.

I have a 3070 as well and I would say that it is starting to hit its limits at 1440p with ray tracing enabled.

$300 is the most I'd pay for a 3070 at this point but, yeah, it's a decent deal. Definitely wouldn't feel bad grabbing one at that price if it meant an upgrade from a 1650.

8 gb cards are going the way of the dodo, even at 1440p its ez to hit that in modern games and cause real perf drop. Hence the hate among the lower 4xxx/5xxx series cards. At that point any 12 to 16gb card auto wins, and its no longer even a race.

At 1440p vs 2070 = +50%, vs 2070 Super = +32%, vs 2080 Ti = +1%, vs 3080 = -19%

They're plenty fast but the 8GB is a shame and is limiting their usefulness. Prices reflect this, they've become very cheap. If you feel your games don't need more than 8GB VRAM then sure, take advantage of the great prices. €300 is too much, IMO. 3070 should be £200-£240 right now so try and get the price down some.

It has good performance, 27% faster than a brand new RTX 4060 which is around 300 Euro at a retailer here. However, the card is held back by its 8GB of VRAM. HWUnboxed showed how the 8GB 3070 had severe stutters in newest AAA games due to running out of VRAM, where as the professional variant using the same GPU core but double the VRAM had no such issues.

300 euros is way too much. closer to 200 and i say yes.

I was lucky getting a Gigabyte 3070 ti eagle 8G. Performance is stunning compared to my old rx580. The only thing that bothers me a bit is the default noise levels of this card. I managed to get it near silent by undervolting and custom fan curve.

Coming from a 1080, this 3070ti is amazing, my only problem is its coupled with a fricken i7 4790k oc'd to 4.8ghz, even then I know I'm still bottlenecking, but for the most part, especially when I play in 4k I'm getting good framerates.

It has 8 GB of VRAM, which is obsolete in 2023. If you plan to game in ultra settings on 1080 or 1440p, you will run out of Vram. PS5 and XSX/S have 16 GB of VRAM that developers optimize for this target. Get the 6700; it has 12 GB of Vram, or save up for a 4070. Most games today are nearing that 8 GB buffer.